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BE-MIDBAR

Numbers 1 1On the first day of the second month, in the second year following the exodus from the land of Egypt, the Lord spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the Tent of Meeting, saying:
2Take a census of the whole Israelite community by the clans of a-its ancestral houses,-a listing the names, every male, head by head. 3You and Aaron shall record them by their groups, from the age of twenty years up, all those in Israel who are able to bear arms.

a Lit. "at any time."
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