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First reading — Numbers 1:1–19 In the first reading, in the wilderness, in the second month of the second year following the Exodus from Egypt, God directed Moses to take a census of the Israelite men age 20 years and up, "all those in Israel who are able to bear arms."[4] In verses 5 to 15 the heads of each of the tribes or army divisions are named.
Second reading — Numbers 1:20–54 In the second reading, the census showed the following populations by tribe: totaling 603,550 in all. God told Moses not to enroll the Levites, but to put them in charge of carrying, assembling, tending to, and guarding the Tabernacle and its furnishings. Any outsider who encroached on the Tabernacle was to be put to death.
Third reading — Numbers 2:1–34[ In the third reading, God told Moses that the Israelites were to encamp by tribe as follows: Priest, Levite, and furnishings of the Tabernacle
Fourth reading — Numbers 3:1–13 In the fourth readind, God instructed Moses to place the Levites in attendance upon Aaron to serve him and the priests.
Fifth reading — Numbers 3:14–39 In the fifth reading, God then told Moses to record by ancestral house and by clan the Levite men from the age of one month up, and he did so.[11]
Sixth reading — Numbers 3:40–51 In the sixth reading, God instructed Moses to record every firstborn male of the Israelites aged one month old and upwards, and they came to 22,273.[19]
Seventh reading — Numbers 4:1–20 In the seventh reading, God then directed Moses and Aaron to take a separate census of the Kohathites between the ages of 30 and 50