⁵²Then Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, ⁵³“For these the land must be divided as an inheritance according to the number of names. ⁵⁴For the larger group you must increase their inheritance, and for the smaller group you must make smaller their inheritance; each must be given their^o inheritance according to the number of the ones counted of them. ⁵⁵Surely the land will be divided by lot. They will inherit according to the names of the tribes of their ancestors.^p ⁵⁶Their^q inheritance must be divided according to the lot between the larger and smaller groups.”

⁵⁷These are the ones counted of the Levites according to their clans: of Gershon, the clan of the Gershonites;^r of Kohath, the clan of the Kohathites;^s of Merari, the clan of the Merarites.^t ⁵⁸These are the clans of Levi: the clan of the Libnites,^u the clan of the Hebronites,^v the clan of the Mahlites,^w the clan of the Mushites,^x the clan of the Korahites.^y Kohath fathered Amram. ⁵⁹The name of the wife of Amram was Jochebed, the daughter of Levi, whose mother bore her for Levi in Egypt; she bore to Amram: Aaron and Moses and their sister Miriam. ⁶⁰To Aaron were born Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar. ⁶¹But Nadab and Abihu died when they presented strange fire before^z Yahweh. ⁶²The ones counted were twenty-three thousand, every male from a month old^a and above, because they were not counted in the midst of the Israelites^b since no inheritance was given to them in the midst of the Israelites.^c

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Footnotes

oHebrew “his”
pOr “fathers”
qHebrew “His”
rHebrew “Gershonite”
sHebrew “Kohathite”
tHebrew “Merarite”
uHebrew “Libnite”
vHebrew “Hebronite”
wHebrew “Mahlite”
xHebrew “Mushite”
yHebrew “Korahite”
zLiterally “in the presence of”
aLiterally “a son of one month”
bLiterally “sons/children of Israel”
cLiterally “sons/children of Israel”