At Mount Sinai

19 On the first day of the third month after the Israelites left Egypt^(A)—on that very day—they came to the Desert of Sinai.^(B)

The Census

1 The Lord spoke to Moses in the tent of meeting^(A) in the Desert of Sinai^(B) on the first day of the second month^(C) of the second year after the Israelites came out of Egypt.^(D) He said:

⁵ and they did so in the Desert of Sinai^(A) at twilight on the fourteenth day of the first month.^(B) The Israelites did everything just as the Lord commanded Moses.^(C)