1Then Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Eleazar son of Aaron the priest, saying,
2“Take a census of the whole congregation of the sons of Israel, from twenty years old and upward, by their fathers’ houses, everyone who is able to go out to war in Israel.”
3So Moses and Eleazar the priest spoke with them in the plains of Moab by the Jordan across from Jericho, saying,
4“Take a census from twenty years old and upward,” as Yahweh commanded Moses and the sons of Israel who came out of the land of Egypt.
5Reuben, the firstborn of Israel. The sons of Reuben: of Hanoch, the clan of the Hanochites; of Pallu, the clan of the Palluites;
6of Hezron, the clan of the Hezronites; of Carmi, the clan of the Carmites.
7These are the clans of the Reubenites; and their number was forty-three thousand seven hundred and thirty.
8And the sons of Pallu: Eliab.
9And the sons of Eliab: Nemuel, Dathan, and Abiram. These are the Dathan and Abiram, called from the congregation, who contended against Moses and against Aaron in the company of Korah when they contended against Yahweh,
10and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up together with Korah, when that company died, when the fire consumed the two hundred and fifty men, and they became a warning sign.
11But the sons of Korah did not die.
12The sons of Simeon by their clans: of Nemuel, the clan of the Nemuelites; of Jamin, the clan of the Jaminites; of Jachin, the clan of the Jachinites;
13of Zerah, the clan of the Zerahites; of Shaul, the clan of the Shaulites.
14These are the clans of the Simeonites: twenty-two thousand two hundred.
15The sons of Gad by their clans: of Zephon, the clan of the Zephonites; of Haggi, the clan of the Haggites; of Shuni, the clan of the Shunites;
16of Ozni, the clan of the Oznites; of Eri, the clan of the Erites;
17of Arod, the clan of the Arodites; of Areli, the clan of the Arelites.
18These are the clans of the sons of Gad according to their number: forty thousand five hundred.
19The sons of Judah: Er and Onan; but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan.
20And the sons of Judah by their clans were: of Shelah, the clan of the Shelanites; of Perez, the clan of the Perezites; of Zerah, the clan of the Zerahites.
21And the sons of Perez were: of Hezron, the clan of the Hezronites; of Hamul, the clan of the Hamulites.
22These are the clans of Judah according to their number: seventy-six thousand five hundred.
23The sons of Issachar by their clans: of Tola, the clan of the Tolaites; of Puvah, the clan of the Punites;
24of Jashub, the clan of the Jashubites; of Shimron, the clan of the Shimronites.
25These are the clans of Issachar according to their number: sixty-four thousand three hundred.
26The sons of Zebulun by their clans: of Sered, the clan of the Seredites; of Elon, the clan of the Elonites; of Jahleel, the clan of the Jahleelites.
27These are the clans of the Zebulunites according to their number: sixty thousand five hundred.
28The sons of Joseph by their clans: Manasseh and Ephraim.
29The sons of Manasseh: of Machir, the clan of the Machirites; and Machir fathered Gilead; of Gilead, the clan of the Gileadites.
30These are the sons of Gilead: of Iezer, the clan of the Iezerites; of Helek, the clan of the Helekites;
31And Asriel, the clan of the Asrielites; and Shechem, the clan of the Shechemites;
32and Shemida, the clan of the Shemidaites; and Hepher, the clan of the Hepherites.
33Now Zelophehad son of Hepher had no sons, but only daughters; and the names of the daughters of Zelophehad were Mahlah and Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.
34These are the clans of Manasseh; and those enrolled of them were fifty-two thousand seven hundred.
35These are the sons of Ephraim by their clans: of Shuthelah, the clan of the Shuthelahites; of Becher, the clan of the Becherites; of Tahan, the clan of the Tahanites.
36And these are the sons of Shuthelah: of Eran, the clan of the Eranites.
37These are the clans of the sons of Ephraim according to those enrolled of them: thirty-two thousand five hundred. These are the sons of Joseph by their clans.
38The sons of Benjamin by their clans: of Bela, the clan of the Belaites; of Ashbel, the clan of the Ashbelites; of Ahiram, the clan of the Ahiramites;
39of Shephupham, the clan of the Shuphamites; of Hupham, the clan of the Huphamites.
40And the sons of Bela were Ard and Naaman: of Ard, the clan of the Ardites; of Naaman, the clan of the Naamites.
41These are the sons of Benjamin by their clans, and those enrolled of them were forty-five thousand six hundred.
42These are the sons of Dan by their clans: of Shuham, the clan of the Shuhamites. These are the clans of Dan by their clans.
43All the clans of the Shuhamites, according to those enrolled of them, were sixty-four thousand four hundred.
44The sons of Asher by their clans: of Imnah, the clan of the Imnites; of Ishvi, the clan of the Ishvites; of Beriah, the clan of the Beriites.
45Of the sons of Beriah: of Heber, the clan of the Heberites; of Malchiel, the clan of the Malchielites.
46And the name of the daughter of Asher was Serah.
47These are the clans of the sons of Asher, according to those enrolled of them: fifty-three thousand four hundred.
48The sons of Naphtali by their clans: of Jahzeel, the clan of the Jahzeelites; of Guni, the clan of the Gunites;
49of Jezer, the clan of the Jezerites; of Shillem, the clan of the Shillemites.
50These are the clans of Naphtali by their clans; and those enrolled of them were forty-five thousand four hundred.
51These are those enrolled of the sons of Israel: six hundred one thousand seven hundred thirty.
52And Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying:
53“To these the land shall be apportioned as an inheritance according to the number of names.
54To the larger you shall give a larger inheritance, and to the smaller you shall give a smaller inheritance; each shall be given its inheritance according to those enrolled of it.
55Yet the land shall be apportioned by lot; according to the names of the tribes of their fathers they shall inherit.
56According to the lot its inheritance shall be apportioned between the larger and the smaller.”
57And these are those enrolled of the Levites by their clans: of Gershon, the clan of the Gershonites; of Kohath, the clan of the Kohathites; of Merari, the clan of the Merarites.
58These are the clans of Levi: the clan of the Libnites, the clan of the Hebronites, the clan of the Mahlites, the clan of the Mushites, the clan of the Korahites. And Kohath fathered Amram.
59And the name of Amram’s wife was Jochebed, 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 and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.
61And Nadab and Abihu died when they offered strange fire before Yahweh.
62And their enrolled ones were twenty-three thousand, every male from a month old and upward; for they were not enrolled among the sons of Israel, because no inheritance was given to them among the sons of Israel.
63These are the ones enrolled by Moses and Eleazar the priest, who enrolled the sons of Israel in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho.
64And among these there was not a man from those enrolled by Moses and Aaron the priest, who enrolled the sons of Israel in the wilderness of Sinai.
65For Yahweh had said of them, “They shall surely die in the wilderness.” And not a man of them was left except Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun.
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