The Wilderness Years

And there were slain four and twenty thousand men.

And the Lord said to Moses:

Phinees the son of Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, hath turned away my wrath from the children of Israel: because he was moved with my zeal against them, that I myself might not destroy the children of Israel in my zeal.

Therefore say to him: behold I give him the peace of my covenant,

And the covenant of the priesthood for ever shall be both to him and his seed, because he hath been zealous for his God, and hath made atonement for the wickedness of the children of Israel.

And the name of the Israelite, that was slain with the woman of Madian, was Zambri the son of Salu, a prince of the kindred and tribe of Simeon.

And the Madianite woman, that was slain with him, was called Cozbi the daughter of Sur, a most noble prince among the Madianites.

And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

Let the Madianites find you their enemies, and slay you them:

Because they also have acted like enemies against you, and have guilefully deceived you by the idol Phogor, and Cozbi their sister, a daughter of a prince of Madian, who was slain in the day of the plague for the sacrilege of Phogor.

After the blood of the guilty was shed, the Lord said to Moses and to Eleazar the son of Aaron, the priest:

Number the whole sum of the children of Israel from twenty years old and upward, by their houses and kindreds, all that are able to go forth to war.

Moses therefore and Eleazar the priest, being in the plains of Moab upon the Jordan over against Jericho, spoke to them that were

From twenty years old and upward, as the Lord had commanded: and this is the number of them:

Ruben the firstborn of Israel. His sons were Henoch, of whom is the family of the Henochites: and Phallu, of whom is the family of the Phalluites:

And Hesron, of whom is the family of the Hesronites: and Charmi, of whom is the family of the Charmites.

These are the families of the stock of Ruben: whose number was found to be forty-three thousand seven hundred and thirty.

The son of Phallu was Eliab.

His sons, were Namuel and Dathan and Abiron. These are Dathan and Abiron the princes of the people, that rose against Moses and Aaron in the sedition of Core, when they rebelled against the Lord:

And the earth opening her mouth swallowed up Core, many others dying, when the fire burned two hundred and fifty men. And there was a great miracle wrought,

That when Core perished, his sons did not perish.

The sons of Simeon by their kindreds: Namuel, of him is the family of the Namuelites: Jamin, of him is the family of the Jaminites: Jachim, of him is the family of the Jachimites:

Zare, of him is the family of the Zarites: Saul, of him is the family of the Saulites.

These are the families of the stock of Simeon, of which the whole number was twenty-two thousand two hundred.

The sons of Gad by their kindreds: Sephon, of him is the family of the Sephonites: Aggi, of him is the family of the Aggites: Suni, of him is the family of the Sunites: