The Wilderness Years

These are sons of Benjamin by their families, and their numbered ones are five and forty thousand and six hundred.

These are sons of Dan by their families: of Shuham is the family of the Shuhamite; these are families of Dan by their families;

all the families of the Shuhamite, by their numbered ones, are four and sixty thousand and four hundred.

Sons of Asher by their families: of Jimna is the family of the Jimnite; of Jesui the family of the Jesuite; of Beriah the family of the Beriite.

Of sons of Beriah: of Heber is the family of the Heberite; of Malchiel the family of the Malchielite.

And the name of the daughter of Asher is Sarah.

These are families of the sons of Asher, by their numbered ones, three and fifty thousand and four hundred.

Sons of Naphtali by their families: of Jahzeel is the family of the Jahzeelite; of Guni the family of the Gunite;

of Jezer the family of the Jezerite; of Shillem the family of the Shillemite.

These are families of Naphtali by their families, and their numbered ones are five and forty thousand and four hundred.

These are numbered ones of the sons of Israel, six hundred thousand, and a thousand, seven hundred and thirty.

And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying,

`To these is the land apportioned by inheritance, by the number of names;

to the many thou dost increase their inheritance, and to the few thou dost diminish their inheritance; to each according to his numbered ones is given his inheritance.

`Only by lot is the land apportioned, by the names of the tribes of their fathers they inherit;

according to the lot is their inheritance apportioned between many and few.'

And these are numbered ones of the Levite by their families: of Gershon is the family of the Gershonite; of Kohath the family of the Kohathite; of Merari the family of the Merarite.

These are families of the Levite: the family of the Libnite, the family of the Hebronite, the family of the Mahlite, the family of the Mushite, the family of the Korathite. And Kohath hath begotten Amram,

and the name of Amram's wife is Jochebed, daughter of Levi, whom one hath born to Levi in Egypt; and she beareth to Amram Aaron, and Moses, and Miriam their sister.

And born to Aaron Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar;

and Nadab dieth--Abihu also--in their bringing near strange fire before Jehovah.

And their numbered ones are three and twenty thousand, every male from a son of a month and upwards, for they have not numbered themselves in the midst of the sons of Israel; for an inheritance hath not been given to them in the midst of the sons of Israel.

These are those numbered by Moses and Eleazar the priest, who have numbered the sons of Israel in the plains of Moab, by Jordan, near Jericho;

and among these there hath not been a man of those numbered by Moses, and Aaron the priest, who numbered the sons of Israel in the wilderness of Sinai,

for Jehovah said of them, `They do certainly die in the wilderness;' and there hath not been left of them a man save Caleb son of Jephunneh, and Joshua son of Nun.