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## Numbers 1:16 in Context (Verses 13–19 KJV)
 
 [13 ](/kjv/numbers/1/13) Of Asher; Pagiel the son of Ocran.
 
 [14 ](/kjv/numbers/1/14) Of Gad; Eliasaph the son of Deuel.*
 
 [15 ](/kjv/numbers/1/15) Of Naphtali; Ahira the son of Enan.
 
 [16 ](/kjv/numbers/1/16) These *were* the renowned of the congregation, princes of the tribes of their fathers, heads of thousands in Israel.
 
 [17 ](/kjv/numbers/1/17) ¶ And Moses and Aaron took these men which are expressed by *their* names:
 
 [18 ](/kjv/numbers/1/18) And they assembled all the congregation together on the first *day* of the second month, and they declared their pedigrees after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, by their polls.
 
 [19 ](/kjv/numbers/1/19) As the LORD commanded Moses, so he numbered them in the wilderness of Sinai.
 
[Leviticus 27](/kjv/leviticus/27) [Numbers 2](/kjv/numbers/2)

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