“Take a census of the people, from twenty years old and upward,” as the Lord commanded Moses. The Israelites, who came out of the land of Egypt, were:
Now these are the names of the Israelites, Jacob and his offspring, who came to Egypt. Reuben, Jacob's firstborn,
Satan stood up against Israel, and incited David to count the people of Israel.
That very day the Lord brought the Israelites out of the land of Egypt, company by company.
The Lord spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the tent of meeting, on the first day of the second month, in the second year after they had come out of the land of Egypt, saying:
Moses and Eleazar the priest spoke with them in the plains of Moab by the Jordan opposite Jericho, saying,
Reuben, the firstborn of Israel. The descendants of Reuben: of Hanoch, the clan of the Hanochites; of Pallu, the clan of the Palluites;