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2"Take a census of all the congregation of the people of Israel, by families, by fathers' houses, according to the number of names, every male, head by head; 3from twenty years old and upward, all in Israel who are able to go forth to war, you and Aaron shall number them, company by company.
Numbers 1:2-3 (RSV)