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16 These were the men chosen from the community, the chiefs of the tribes of their fathers. They were the heads of Israel’s divisions.[a] 17 Moses and Aaron brought together these men, who had been designated by name. 18 They assembled the entire community on the first day of the second month, and they recorded the people’s ancestry by their clans,[b] by their fathers’ houses, listing the names of those who were twenty years old and up, one by one.

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 1:16 Literally thousands
  2. Numbers 1:18 Or extended family (Hebrew mishpachah)