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Numbers 1

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1 And Jehovah spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the Tabernacle of the congregation, on the first of the second month, in the second year after they were come·​·out of the land of Egypt, saying,

2 Take· ye ·up the sum of all the congregation of the sons of Israel, as·​·to their families, as·​·to the house of their fathers, with the number of their names, every male by their polls*;

3 from a son of twenty years and upward, all that go·​·out with the army in Israel; thou and Aaron shall number them as·​·to their armies.

4 And with you there shall be a man, a man for a tribe; each·​·man, a head of the house of his fathers is he.

5 And these are the names of the men that shall stand with you; for Reuben; Elizur the son of Shedeur.

6 For Simeon; Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai.

7 For Judah, Nahshon the son of Amminadab.

8 For Issachar, Nethaneel the son of Zuar.

9 For Zebulun, Eliab the son of Helon.

10 For the sons of Joseph; for Ephraim, Elishama the son of Ammihud; for Manasseh, Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur.

11 For Benjamin; Abidan the son of Gideoni.

12 For Dan, Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai.

13 For Asher, Pagiel the son of Ocran.

14 For Gad, Eliasaph the son of Deuel.

15 For Naphtali, Ahira the son of Enan.

16 These were the called·​·upon of the congregation, chiefs of the tribes of their fathers, heads of thousands in Israel were they.

17 And Moses and Aaron took these men who are designated by their names;

18 and they assembled all the congregation on the first of the second month, and they declared·​·their·​·births* by their families, according·​·to the house of their fathers, by the number of the names, from a son of twenty years and upward, according·​·to their polls*.

19 As Jehovah commanded Moses, yea he numbered them in the wilderness of Sinai.

20 And there were the sons of Reuben, the firstborn of Israel, by their births, as·​·to their families, as·​·to the house of their fathers, according by the number of the names, as·​·to their polls, every male from a son of twenty years and upward, all who go·​·out with the army;

21 they who were numbered of the tribe of Reuben, were six and forty thousand, and five hundred.

22 Of the sons of Simeon, by their births, as·​·to their families, as·​·to the house of their fathers, those who were numbered of them, by the number of the names, as·​·to their polls, every male from a son of twenty years and upward, all who go·​·out with the army;

23 they who were numbered of the tribe of Simeon, were nine and fifty thousand and three hundred.

24 Of the sons of Gad, by their births, as·​·to their families, as·​·to the house of their fathers, by the number of the names, from a son of twenty years and upward, all who go·​·out with the army;

25 they who were numbered of the tribe of Gad were five and forty thousand six hundred and fifty.

26 Of the sons of Judah, by their births, as·​·to their families, as·​·to the house of their fathers, by the number of the names, from a son of twenty years and upward, all who go·​·out with the army;

27 they who were numbered of the tribe of Judah were four and seventy thousand and six hundred.

28 Of the sons of Issachar, by their births, as·​·to their families, as·​·to the house of their fathers, by the number of the names, from a son of twenty years and upward, all who go·​·out with the army;

29 they who were numbered of the tribe of Issachar were four and fifty thousand and four hundred.

30 Of the sons of Zebulun, by their births, as·​·to their families, as·​·to the house of their fathers, by the number of the names, from a son of twenty years and upward, all who go·​·out with the army;

31 they who were numbered of the tribe of Zebulun, were seven and fifty thousand and four hundred.

32 Of the sons of Joseph, of the sons of Ephraim, by their births, as·​·to their families, as·​·to the house of their fathers, by the number of the names, from a son of twenty years and upward, all who go·​·out with the army;

33 they who were numbered of the tribe of Ephraim were forty thousand and five hundred.

34 Of the sons of Manasseh, by their births, as·​·to their families, as·​·to the house of their fathers, by the number of the names, from a son of twenty years and upward, all who go·​·out with the army;

35 they who were numbered of the tribe of Manasseh were two and thirty thousand and two·​·hundred.

36 Of the sons of Benjamin, by their births, as·​·to their families, as·​·to the house of their fathers, by the number of the names, from a son of twenty years and upward, all who go·​·out with the army;

37 they who were numbered of the tribe of Benjamin were five and thirty thousand and four hundred.

38 Of the sons of Dan, by their births, as·​·to their families, as·​·to the house of their fathers, by the number of the names, from a son of twenty years and upward, all who go·​·out with the army;

39 they who were numbered of the tribe of Dan were two and sixty thousand and seven hundred.

40 Of the sons of Asher, by their births, according·​·to their families, according·​·to the house of their fathers, by the number of the names, from a son of twenty years and upward, all who go·​·out with the army;

41 they who were numbered of the tribe of Asher were one and forty thousand and five hundred.

42 The sons of Naphtali, by their births, as·​·to their families, as·​·to the house of their fathers, by the number of the names, from a son of twenty years and upward, all who go·​·out with the army;

43 they who were numbered of the tribe of Naphtali were three and fifty thousand and four hundred.

44 These are those that were numbered, whom Moses and Aaron and the chiefs of Israel, who were twelve men, numbered; each one was for the house of his fathers.

45 And all those who were numbered of the sons of Israel, according·​·to the house of their fathers, from a son of twenty years and upward, all who go·​·out with the army in Israel,

46 and all those who were numbered were six hundred thousand and three thousand and five hundred and fifty.

47 But the Levites as·​·to the tribe of their fathers were not numbered among them.

48 And Jehovah had spoken to Moses, saying,

49 Surely thou shalt not number the tribe of Levi, neither take·​·up the sum of them among the sons of Israel;

50 but thou shalt appoint the Levites over the Habitation of the testimony, and over all its vessels, and over all that belongs to it; they shall bear the Habitation, and all its vessels; and they shall minister to it, and shall encamp all around the Habitation.

51 And when the Habitation journeys, the Levites shall take· it ·down; and when the Habitation is to be encamped, the Levites shall raise· it ·up; and the stranger that draws·​·near shall·​·be·​·put·​·to·​·death.

52 And the sons of Israel shall encamp, each·​·man by his own camp, and each·​·man by his own banner, as·​·to their armies.

53 But the Levites shall encamp all around the Habitation of testimony, that there be no rage upon the congregation of the sons of Israel; and the Levites shall keep the charge of the Habitation of the testimony.

54 And the sons of Israel did according·​·to all that Jehovah commanded Moses; so they did.


Thanks to the Kempton Project for the permission to use this New Church translation of the Word.

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Rudolf von Arthaber with his Children, by Friedrich von Amerling

Father in the Word means what is most interior, and in those things that are following the Lord's order, it means what is good. In the highest sense Father means the Lord Himself, the creator. In the generation of natural children it is the father who provides the soul or the most interior receptacle of life, and an internal heredity, and the mother who provides all of the substance that the soul uses to form its body, plus an external heredity. In this process the soul comes from the Lord through the father, and not from the father, since all life is from the Lord. The wise person calls the Lord his father and the church his mother because his interior loves come from the Lord, but are given form and actuality through the truths taught by the church. Those things thus brought forth are a person's spiritual "children". In the New Testament, when speaking of Jesus and the Father, what is meant is the outward manifestation with the divine itself as the soul inside. Because Jesus was born from a natural mother, He had a natural body and a natural Jewish heredity. Throughout his life as He was tempted by the hells, He slowly put off all he had from His mother and replaced it with what He had from Himself inside, the Father. In doing this he made himself one with the Father that was His inmost so He could truly say, "I and my Father are one".