“Take a census(A) of the entire Israelite community by their clans and their ancestral families,[a] counting the names of every male one by one.

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Footnotes

  1. 1:2 Lit the house of their fathers, also in vv. 18,20,22,24,26,28,30,32,34,36,38,40,42,45

So the king said to Joab, the commander of his army, “Go through all the tribes of Israel from Dan to Beer-sheba and register the troops so I can know their number.”(A)

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