The Wilderness Years

and the dead by the plague are four and twenty thousand.

And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying,

`Phinehas, son of Eleazar, son of Aaron the priest, hath turned back My fury from the sons of Israel, by his being zealous with My zeal in their midst, and I have not consumed the sons of Israel in My zeal.

`Therefore say, Lo, I am giving to him My covenant of peace,

and it hath been to him and to his seed after him a covenant of a priesthood age-during, because that he hath been zealous for his God, and doth make atonement for the sons of Israel.'

And the name of the man of Israel who is smitten, who hath been smitten with the Midianitess, is Zimri son of Salu, prince of the house of a father of the Simeonite;

and the name of the woman who is smitten, the Midianitess, is Cozbi daughter of Zur, head of a people--of the house of a father in Midian is he.

And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying,

`Distress the Midianites, and ye have smitten them,

for they are adversaries to you with their frauds, with which they have acted fraudulently to you, concerning the matter of Peor, and concerning the matter of Cozbi, daughter of a prince of Midian, their sister, who is smitten in the day of the plague for the matter of Peor.'

And it cometh to pass, after the plague, that Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, and unto Eleazar son of Aaron the priest, saying,

`Take up the sum of all the company of the sons of Israel, from a son of twenty years and upward, by the house of their fathers, every one going out to the host in Israel.'

And Moses speaketh--Eleazar the priest also--with them, in the plains of Moab, by Jordan, near Jericho, saying,

`From a son of twenty years and upward,' as Jehovah hath commanded Moses and the sons of Israel who are coming out from the land of Egypt.

Reuben, first-born of Israel--sons of Reuben: of Hanoch is the family of the Hanochite; of Pallu the family of the Palluite;

of Hezron the family of the Hezronite; of Carmi the family of the Carmite.

These are families of the Reubenite, and their numbered ones are three and forty thousand and seven hundred and thirty.

And the son of Pallu is Eliab;

and the sons of Eliab are Nemuel and Dathan and Abiram; this is that Dathan and Abiram, called ones of the company, who have striven against Moses and against Aaron in the company of Korah, in their striving against Jehovah,

and the earth openeth her mouth, and swalloweth them and Korah, in the death of the company, in the fire consuming the two hundred and fifty men, and they become a sign;

and the sons of Korah died not.

Sons of Simeon by their families: of Nemuel is the family of the Nemuelite; of Jamin the family of the Jaminite; of Jachin the family of the Jachinite;

of Zerah the family of the Zarhite; of Shaul the family of the Shaulite.

These are families of the Simeonite, two and twenty thousand and two hundred.

Sons of Gad by their families: of Zephon is the family of the Zephonite; of Haggi the family of the Haggite; of Shuni the family of the Shunite;