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Numbers 26
1 Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Eleazar son of Aaron, the priest. He said:
2 ‘Take a census of all the community of the sons of Israel, by families: all those of twenty years and over, fit to bear arms.
3 So Moses and Eleazar the priest spoke to the people in the plains of Moab, near the Jordan opposite Jericho. They counted:
4 (As Yahweh had ordered Moses and the sons of Israel on their coming out of the land of Egypt:) Men of twenty years and over:
5 Reuben, the first-born of Israel. The sons of Reuben: for Hanoch, the Hanochite clan; for Pallu, the Palluite clan;
6 for Hezron, the Hezronite clan; for Carmi, the Carmite clan.
7 These were the Reubenite clans. They numbered forty-three thousand seven hundred and thirty men.
8 The sons of Pallu: Eliab.
9 The sons of Eliab: Nemuel, Dathan and Abiram. These two, Dathan and Abiram, men of repute in the community, were the ones who challenged Moses and Aaron; they belonged to the followers of Korah who challenged Yahweh.
10 The earth opened its mouth and swallowed them (Korah perished with his followers), when fire consumed the two hundred and fifty men. They were a sign.
11 The sons of Korah did not perish.
12 The sons of Simeon by clans; for Nemuel, the Nemuelite clan; for Jamin, the Jaminite clan; for Jachin, the Jachinite clan;
13 for Zerah, the Zerahite clan; for Shaul, the Shaulite clan.
14 These were the Simeonite clans. They numbered twenty-two thousand two hundred men.
15 The sons of Gad by clans: for Zephon, the Zephonite clan; for Haggi, the Haggite clan; for Shuni, the Shunite clan;
16 for Ozni, the Oznite clan; for En, the Erite clan;
17 for Arod, the Arodite clan; for Areli, the Arelite clan.
18 These were the clans of the sons of Gad. They numbered forty thousand five hundred men.
19 The sons of Judah: Er and Onan. Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan.
20 The sons of Judah became clans: for Shelah, the Shelanite clan; for Perez, the Perezzite clan; for Zerah, the Zerahite clan.
21 The sons of Perez were: for Hezron, the Hezronite clan; for Hamul, the Hamulite clan.
22 These were the clans of Judah. They numbered seventy-six thousand five hundred men.
23 The sons of Issachar, by clans: for Tola, the Tolaite clan; for Puvah, the Puvite clan;
24 for Jashub, the Jashubite clan; for Shimron, the Shimronite clan.
25 These were the clans of Issachar. They numbered sixty-four thousand three hundred men.
26 The sons of Zebulun by clans: for Sered, the Seredite clan; for Elon, the Elonite clan; for Jahleel, the Jahleelite clan.
27 These were the clans of Zebulun. They numbered sixty thousand five hundred men.
28 The sons of Joseph, by clans: Manasseh and Ephraim.
29 The sons of Manasseh: for Machir, the Machirite clan; Machir was the father of Gilead: for Gilead, the Gileadite clan.
30 These were the clans of Gilead; for Iezer, the Iezerite clan; for Helek, the Helekite clan;
31 Asriel, the Asrielite clan Shechem, the Shechemite clan;
32 Shemida, the Shemidaite clan; Hepher, the Hepherite clan.
33 Zelophehad son of Hepher had no sons but only daughters; these are the names of Zelophehad’s daughters: Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah and Tirzah.
34 These were the clans of Manasseh. They numbered fifty-two thousand seven hundred men.
35 These are the sons of Ephraim by clans: for Shuthelah, the Shuthelahite clan; for Becher, the Becherite clan; for Tahan, the Tahanite clan.
36 These are the sons of Shuthelah: for Eran, the Eranite clan.
37 These were the clans of Ephraim. They numbered thirty-two thousand five hundred men. These were the sons of Joseph, by clans.
38 The sons of Benjamin, by clans: for Bela, the Belaite clan; for Ashbel, the Ashbelite clan: for Ahiram, the Ahiramite clan;
39 for Shephupham, the Shephuphamite clan; for Hupham, the Huphamite clan.
40 Bela had Ard and Naaman for sons: for Ard, the Ardite clan; for Naaman, the Naamite clan.
41 These were the sons of Benjamin by clans. They numbered forty-five thousand six hundred men.
42 These were the sons of Dan, by clans: for Shuham, the Shuhamite clan. These were the sons of Dan, by clans.
43 All the Shuhamite clans numbered sixty-four thousand four hundred men.
44 The sons of Asher, by clans: for Imnah the Imnite clan; for Ishvi, the Ishvite clan; for Beriah, the Berute clan.
45 For the sons of Beriah: for Heber, the Heberite clan; for Malchiel, the Malchielite clan.
46 The daughter of Asher was called Serah.
47 These were the clans of Asher. They numbered fifty-three thousand four hundred men.
48 The sons of Naphtali, by clans: for Jahzeel, the Jahzeelite clan; for Guni, the Gunite clan;
49 for Jezer, the Jezerite clan; for Shillem the Shillemite clan.
50 These were the clans of Naphtali grouped by clans. The sons of Naphtali numbered forty-five thousand four hundred men
51 The sons of Israel numbered in all six hundred and one thousand seven hundred and thirty men.
52 Yahweh spoke to Moses and said,
53 ‘The land is to be shared out among these as a heritage, according to the number of those inscribed.
54 To the large in number you are to give a large area of land, to the small in number a small area; to each the heritage will be in proportion to the registered.
55 The dividing of the land is, however, to be done by lot. Each is to receive his inheritance according to the number of names in the patriarchal tribes;
56 the inheritance of each tribe is to be divided by lot, each receiving in accordance with its larger or smaller numbers.’
Census of the Levites
57 These are, by clans, the Levites that were registered: for Gershon, the Gershonite clan; for Kohath, the Kohathite clan; for Merari, the Merarite clan.
58 These are the Levite clans: the Libnite clan, the Hebronite clan, the Mahlite clan, the Mushite clan, the Korahite clan. Kohath was the father of Amram.
59 The wife of Amram was called Jochebed daughter of Levi, born to him in Egypt. To Amram she bore Aaron, Moses and Miriam their sister.
60 Aaron was the father of Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.
61 Nadab and Abihu died when they brought unlawful fire before Yahweh.
62 Altogether there were registered twenty-three thousand males of one month and over. They were not registered with the sons of Israel, having received no inheritance among them.
63 These were the men registered by Moses and Eleazar the priest who took this census of the sons of Israel in the plains of Moab, near the Jordan, opposite Jericho.
64 Not one of them. was among those whom Moses and Aaron had registered when they numbered the sons of Israel in the wilderness of Sinai;
65 for Yahweh had told them that these were to die in the wilderness and without anyone remaining, except Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun.