1The LORD spoke to Moses in the tent of meeting in the Wilderness of Sinai, on the first day of the second month of the second year after Israel's departure from the land of Egypt: " 2Take a census of the entire Israelite community by their clans and their ancestral houses, counting the names of every male one by one.
Hi lembe ra vumbirhi ra loko Vaisraele va humile etikweni ra Egipta, hi siku ro sungula ra n'hweti ya vumbirhi, HOSI Xikwembu xi vulavula na Muxe eka Ntsonga lowo Hlawuleka, emananga ya Sinayi, xi ku: 2"Hlayani ntsengo wa Vaisraele hinkwavo, hi tinyimba ta vona ni mindyangu ya vona, mi tsala mavito ya vavanuna ha rin'we rin'we.