The Wilderness Years

These were the descendants of Binyamin, by their families; of them were counted 45,600.

The descendants of Dan, by their families, were: of Shucham, the family of the Shuchami. These are the families of Dan, by their families.

All the families of the Shuchami, according to those of them that were counted, were 64,400.

The descendants of Asher, by their families: of Yimnah, the family of the Yimnah; of Yishvi, the family of the Yishvi; and of B'ri'ah, the family of the B'ri'i.

Of the descendants of B'ri'ah: of Hever, the family of the Hevri; and of Malki'el, the family of the Malki'eli.

The name of Asher's daughter was Serach.

These were the families of the descendants of Asher, according to those of them that were counted, 53,400.

The descendants of Naftali, by their families: of Yachtze'el, the families of the Yachtze'eli; of Guni, the family of the Guni;

of Yetzer, the family of the Yitzri; and of Shillem, the family of the Shillemi.

These are the families of Naftali according to their families; those of them that were counted were 45,400.

Thus those who were counted of the people of Isra'el numbered 601,730.

ADONAI said to Moshe,

"The land is to be parceled out among these as a possession to be inherited, according to the number of names.

To those families with more persons you are to give a greater inheritance, and to those with fewer you are to give a smaller inheritance - each family's inheritance is to be given according to the number counted in it.

However, the land is to be awarded by lot. They will inherit according to the names of the tribes of their ancestors,

but the inheritance is to be parceled out by lot between the families with more and those with fewer."

Those counted among the Levi, by their families, were: of Gershon, the family of the Gershuni, of K'hat, the family of the K'hati; and of M'rari, the family of the M'rari.

These are the families of Levi: the family of the Livni, the family of the Hevroni, the family of the Machli, the family of the Mushi and the family of the Korchi. K'hat was the father of 'Amram.

The name of 'Amram's wife was Yokheved the daughter of Levi, who was born to Levi in Egypt; and she bore to 'Amram Aharon, Moshe and their sister Miryam.

To Aharon were born Nadav, Avihu, El'azar and Itamar;

but Nadav and Avihu died when they offered unauthorized fire before ADONAI.

Those males one month old or more counted of the Levi were 23,000. These were not included in the census of the people of Isra'el, because no land for inheritance was given to them among the people of Isra'el.

These are the ones counted by Moshe and El'azar the cohen, who took a census of the people of Isra'el in the plains of Mo'av by the Yarden across from Yericho.

But there was not a man among them who had also been included in the census of Moshe and Aharon the cohen when they enumerated the people of Isra'el in the Sinai Desert;

because ADONAI had said of them, "They will surely die in the desert." So there was not left even one of them, except Kalev the son of Y'funeh and Y'hoshua the son of Nun.