1. the Lord said to Moses and Eleazar, son of Aaron the priest:
2. Take a census, by ancestral houses, throughout the community of the Israelites of all those of twenty years or more who are eligible for military service in Israel.
3. So on the plains of Moab along the Jordan at Jericho, Moses and Eleazar the priest enrolled them,
4. those of twenty years or more, as the Lord had commanded Moses.The Israelites who came out of the land of Egypt were as follows:
5. Reuben, the firstborn of Israel. The descendants of Reuben by their clans were: through Hanoch, the clan of the Hanochites; through Pallu, the clan of the Palluites;
6. through Hezron, the clan of the Hezronites; through Carmi, the clan of the Carmites.