Numbers 1:2
Good News Translation
"You and Aaron are to take a census of the people of Israel by clans and families. List the names of all the men

New Revised Standard Version
Take a census of the whole congregation of Israelites, in their clans, by ancestral houses, according to the number of names, every male individually;

New American Bible
Take a census of the whole community of the Israelites, by clans and ancestral houses, registering by name each male individually.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Take the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel by their families, and houses, and the names of every one, as many as are of the male sex,

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Take the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel by their families, and houses, and the names of every one, as many as are of the male sex,

take ye the sum.

Numbers 26:2-4,63,64 Number the whole sum of the children of Israel from twenty years old and upward, by their houses and kindreds, all that are able to go forth to war. . . .

Exodus 30:12 When thou shalt take the sum of the children of Israel, according to their number, every one of them shall give a price for their souls to the Lord, and there shall be no scourge among them, when they shall be reckoned.

Exodus 38:26 There were moreover a hundred talents of silver, whereof were cast the sockets of the sanctuary, and of the entry where the veil hangeth.

2 Samuel 24:1-3 And the anger of the Lord was again kindled against Israel, and stirred up David among them, saying: Go, number Israel and Juda. . . .

1 Chronicles 21:1,2 And Satan rose up against Israel: and moved David to number Israel. . . .

1 Chronicles 27:23,24 But David would not number them from twenty years old and under: because the lord had said that he would multiply Israel like the stars of heaven. . . .

the children

Genesis 49:1-3 And Jacob called his sons, and said to them: Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you the things that shall befall you in the last days. . . .

Exodus 1:1-5 These are the names of the children of Israel, that went into Egypt with Jacob: they went in every man with his household: . . .

after

Numbers 1:18,22,26 And assembled them on the first day of the second month, reckoning them up by the kindreds, and houses, and families, and heads, and names of every one from twenty years old and upward, . . .

Exodus 6:14-19 These are the heads of their houses by their families. The sons of Ruben the firstborn of Israel: Henoch and Phallu, Hesron and Charmi. . . .

Context
The Census of Israel's Warriors
1And the Lord spoke to Moses in the desert of Sinai in the tabernacle of the covenant, the first day of the second month, the second year of their going out of Egypt, saying: 2Take the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel by their families, and houses, and the names of every one, as many as are of the male sex,3From twenty years old and upwards, of all the men of Israel fit for war, and you shall number them by their troops, thou and Aaron.…
Cross References
Exodus 12:37
And the children of Israel set forward from Ramesse to Socoth, being about six hundred thousand men on foot, beside children.

Exodus 30:12
When thou shalt take the sum of the children of Israel, according to their number, every one of them shall give a price for their souls to the Lord, and there shall be no scourge among them, when they shall be reckoned.

Exodus 38:25
And it was offered by them that went to be numbered, from twenty years old and upwards, of six hundred and three thousand five hundred and fifty men able to bear arms.

Exodus 38:26
There were moreover a hundred talents of silver, whereof were cast the sockets of the sanctuary, and of the entry where the veil hangeth.

Numbers 26:2
Number the whole sum of the children of Israel from twenty years old and upward, by their houses and kindreds, all that are able to go forth to war.

Numbers 1:1
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