And to Aaron were born Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.

So the Israelites did so, and expelled them outside the camp. As the Lord had spoken to Moses, so the Israelites did.

So they will put my name on the Israelites, and I will bless them.”

From the descendants of Simeon: According to the records of their clans and families, all the males numbered of them twenty years old or older who could serve in the army were listed by name individually.

“Take the Levites instead of all the firstborn males among the Israelites, and the livestock of the Levites instead of their livestock. And the Levites will be mine. I am the Lord.

Now the Reubenites and the Gadites possessed a very large number of cattle. When they saw that the lands of Jazer and Gilead were ideal for cattle,

because the tribe of the Reubenites by their families, the tribe of the Gadites by their families, and half of the tribe of Manasseh have received their inheritance.

Those of them who were numbered from the tribe of Reuben were 46,500.

Those of them who were numbered from the tribe of Ephraim were 40,500.

Those of them who were numbered from the tribe of Manasseh were 32,200.

The Israelites did according to all that the Lord commanded Moses – that is what they did.

“Take the Levites from among the Israelites and purify them.

“The Israelites are to observe the Passover at its appointed time.

So Moses instructed the Israelites to observe the Passover.

When Moses told these things to all the Israelites, the people mourned greatly.

These were those numbered of the Israelites, 601,730.

(30:1) So Moses told the Israelites everything, just as the Lord had commanded him.

The Israelites traveled from Rameses and camped in Succoth.

Then the Lord said to Moses, “Number all the firstborn males of the Israelites from a month old and upward, and take the number of their names.

And all the firstborn males, by the number of the names from a month old and upward, totaled 22,273.