Numbers 26

¹After the plague the Lord said to Moses and to Eleaʹzar the son of Aaron, the priest, ²“Take a census of all the congregation of the people of Israel, from twenty years old and upward, by their fathers’ houses, all in Israel who are able to go forth to war.” ³And Moses and Eleaʹzar the priest spoke with them in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho, saying, ⁴“Take a census of the people, from twenty years old and upward,” as the Lord commanded Moses. The people of Israel, who came forth out of the land of Egypt, were:

⁵Reuben, the first-born of Israel; the sons of Reuben: of Hanoch, the family of the Haʹnochites; of Pallu, the family of the Palʹluites; ⁶of Hezron, the family of the Hezʹronites; of Carmi, the family of the Carmites. ⁷These are the families of the Reubenites; and their number was forty-three thousand seven hundred and thirty. ⁸And the sons of Pallu: Eliʹab. ⁹The sons of Eliʹab: Nemʹuel, Dathan, and Abiʹram. These are the Dathan and Abiʹram, chosen from the congregation, who contended against Moses and Aaron in the company of Korah, when they contended against the Lord, ¹⁰and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up together with Korah, when that company died, when the fire devoured two hundred and fifty men; and they became a warning. ¹¹Notwithstanding, the sons of Korah did not die.

¹²The sons of Simeon according to their families: of Nemʹuel, the family of the Nemʹuelites; of Jamin, the family of the Jaʹminites; of Jachin, the family of the Jaʹchinites; ¹³of Zerah, the family of the Zerʹahites; of Shaul, the family of the Shaʹulites. ¹⁴These are the families of the Simeonites, twenty-two thousand two hundred.

¹⁵The sons of Gad according to their families: of Zephon, the family of the Zeʹphonites; of Haggi, the family of the Haggites; of Shuni, the family of the Shunites; ¹⁶of Ozni, the family of the Oznites; of Eri, the family of the Erites; ¹⁷of Arʹod, the family of the Arʹodites; of Areʹli, the family of the Areʹlites. ¹⁸These are the families of the sons of Gad according to their number, forty thousand five hundred.

¹⁹The sons of Judah were Er and Onan; and Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan. ²⁰And the sons of Judah according to their families were: of Shelah, the family of the Shelaʹnites; of Perez, the family of the Perʹezites; of Zerah, the family of the Zerʹahites. ²¹And the sons of Perez were: of Hezron, the family of the Hezʹronites; of Hamul, the family of the Hamuʹlites. ²²These are the families of Judah according to their number, seventy-six thousand five hundred.

²³The sons of Isʹsachar according to their families: of Tola, the family of the Toʹlaites; of Puvah, the family of the Punites; ²⁴of Jashub, the family of the Jashʹubites; of Shimron, the family of the Shimʹronites. ²⁵These are the families of Isʹsachar according to their number, sixty-four thousand three hundred.

²⁶The sons of Zebʹulun, according to their families: of Sered, the family of the Serʹedites; of Elon, the family of the Eʹlonites; of Jahleel, the family of the Jahʹleelites. ²⁷These are the families of the Zebuʹlunites according to their number, sixty thousand five hundred.

²⁸The sons of Joseph according to their families: Manasʹseh and Eʹphraim. ²⁹The sons of Manasʹseh: of Machir, the family of the Maʹchirites; and Machir was the father of Gilead; of Gilead, the family of the Gilʹeadites. ³⁰These are the sons of Gilead: of Ieʹzer, the family of the Ieʹzerites; of Helek, the family of the Heʹlekites; ³¹and of Asʹriel, the family of the Asʹrielites; and of Shechem, the family of the Sheʹchemites; ³²and of Shemiʹda, the family of the Shemiʹdaites; and of Hepher, the family of the Heʹpherites. ³³Now Zeloʹphehad the son of Hepher had no sons, but daughters: and the names of the daughters of Zeloʹphehad were Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah. ³⁴These are the families of Manasʹseh; and their number was fifty-two thousand seven hundred.

³⁵These are the sons of Eʹphraim according to their families: of Shuʹthelah, the family of the Shuʹthelaʹhites; of Becher, the family of the Beʹcherites; of Tahan, the family of the Taʹhanites. ³⁶And these are the sons of Shuʹthelah: of Eran, the family of the Eʹranites. ³⁷These are the families of the sons of Eʹphraim according to their number, thirty-two thousand five hundred. These are the sons of Joseph according to their families.

³⁸The sons of Benjamin according to their families: of Bela, the family of the Beʹla-ites; of Ashbel, the family of the Ashʹbelites; of Ahiʹram, the family of the Ahiʹramites; ³⁹of Shephuʹpham, the family of the Shuʹphamites; of Hupham, the family of the Huʹphamites. ⁴⁰And the sons of Bela were Ard and Naʹaman: of Ard, the family of the Ardʹites; of Naʹaman, the family of the Naʹamites. ⁴¹These are the sons of Benjamin according to their families; and their number was forty-five thousand six hundred.

⁴²These are the sons of Dan according to their families: of Shuham, the family of the Shuʹhamites. These are the families of Dan according to their families. ⁴³All the families of the Shuʹhamites, according to their number, were sixty-four thousand four hundred.

⁴⁴The sons of Asher according to their families: of Imnah, the family of the Imnites; of Ishvi, the family of the Ishvites; of Beriʹah, the family of the Beriʹites. ⁴⁵Of the sons of Beriʹah: of Heber, the family of the Heʹberites; of Malʹchi-el, the family of the Malʹchi-elites. ⁴⁶And the name of the daughter of Asher was Serah. ⁴⁷These are the families of the sons of Asher according to their number, fifty-three thousand four hundred.

⁴⁸The sons of Naphʹtali according to their families: of Jahzeel, the family of the Jahʹzeelites; of Guni, the family of the Gunites; ⁴⁹of Jezer, the family of the Jeʹzerites; of Shillem, the family of the Shilʹlemites. ⁵⁰These are the families of Naphʹtali according to their families; and their number was forty-five thousand four hundred.

⁵¹This was the number of the people of Israel, six hundred and one thousand seven hundred and thirty.

⁵²The Lord said to Moses: ⁵³“To these the land shall be divided for inheritance according to the number of names. ⁵⁴To a large tribe you shall give a large inheritance, and to a small tribe you shall give a small inheritance; every tribe shall be given its inheritance according to its numbers. ⁵⁵But the land shall be divided by lot; according to the names of the tribes of their fathers they shall inherit. ⁵⁶Their inheritance shall be divided according to lot between the larger and the smaller.”

⁵⁷These are the Levites as numbered according to their families: of Gershon, the family of the Gershonites; of Kohath, the family of the Koʹhathites; of Merarʹi, the family of the Merarʹites. ⁵⁸These are the families of Levi: the family of the Libnites, the family of the Heʹbronites, the family of the Mahlites, the family of the Mushites, the family of the Koʹrahites. And Kohath was the father of Amram. ⁵⁹The name of Amram’s wife was Jochʹebed the daughter of Levi, who was born to Levi in Egypt; and she bore to Amram Aaron and Moses and Miriam their sister. ⁶⁰And to Aaron were born Nadab, Abiʹhu, Eleaʹzar and Ithʹamar. ⁶¹But Nadab and Abiʹhu died when they offered unholy fire before the Lord. ⁶²And those numbered of them were twenty-three thousand, every male from a month old and upward; for they were not numbered among the people of Israel, because there was no inheritance given to them among the people of Israel.

⁶³These were those numbered by Moses and Eleaʹzar the priest, who numbered the people of Israel in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho. ⁶⁴But among these there was not a man of those numbered by Moses and Aaron the priest, who had numbered the people of Israel in the wilderness of Sinai. ⁶⁵For the Lord had said of them, “They shall die in the wilderness.” There was not left a man of them, except Caleb the son of Jephunʹneh and Joshua the son of Nun.