Numbers 1:1 says on the 1st day of the second month of the year 2026 after the Jews came out of Egypt. God instructed moses and Aaron to the sum of all the congregation of the children of Isreal (the church).
As we prepare to enter his house and congregation to be counted amongst the living, who survived many battles, of last month and overcame where do you want to be numbered. Number 1: 18 rehashes how the Israelites assembled all the congregation together on the 1st day of the second month. Using their families by the house of their father, with the number of their names, every male by their polls, 20 years upward were to be numbered by their armies.
Reuben was 46,500, Simeon 59,300, Gad 45,650, Judah 14,660, Zebulun 57,400, Ephraim 40,500, Manasseh 32,200, Benjamin 35,400, Dan 62,700 and Asher 41,500, Naphtali 53,400. (I always thought this was the sq boundary each tribe occupied).
With exception of the Levites, who had the tabernacle of testimony to minister. But the beauty is to see how the congregation of the lord (now the church) assemble for battle.