²³These were the family groups in the tribe of Issachar: From Tola came the Tolaite family group; from Puah came the Puite family group; ²⁴from Jashub came the Jashubite family group; from Shimron came the Shimronite family group. ²⁵These were the family groups of Issachar, and the total number of men was 64,300.

²⁶These were the family groups in the tribe of Zebulun: From Sered came the Seredite family group; from Elon came the Elonite family group; from Jahleel came the Jahleelite family group. ²⁷These were the family groups of Zebulun, and the total number of men was 60,500.

²⁸These were the family groups of Joseph through Manasseh and Ephraim.

²⁹These were the family groups of Manasseh: From Makir came the Makirite family group (Makir was the father of Gilead); from Gilead came the Gileadite family group. ³⁰These were the family groups that came from Gilead: From Iezer came the Iezerite family group; from Helek came the Helekite family group; ³¹from Asriel came the Asrielite family group; from Shechem came the Shechemite family group; ³²from Shemida came the Shemidaite family group; from Hepher came the Hepherite family group. ³³(Zelophehad son of Hepher had no sons; he had only daughters, and their names were Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.) ³⁴These were the family groups of Manasseh, and the total number of men was 52,700.

³⁵These were the family groups in the tribe of Ephraim: From Shuthelah came the Shuthelahite family group; from Beker came the Bekerite family group; from Tahan came the Tahanite family group. ³⁶This was the family group from Shuthelah: From Eran came the Eranite family group. ³⁷These were the family groups of Ephraim, and the total number of men was 32,500. These are the family groups that came from Joseph.

³⁸These were the family groups in the tribe of Benjamin: From Bela came the Belaite family group; from Ashbel came the Ashbelite family group; from Ahiram came the Ahiramite family group; ³⁹from Shupham came the Shuphamite family group; from Hupham came the Huphamite family group. ⁴⁰These were the family groups from Bela through Ard and Naaman: From Ard came the Ardite family group; from Naaman came the Naamite family group. ⁴¹These were the family groups of Benjamin, and the total number of men was 45,600.

⁴²This was the family group in the tribe of Dan: From Shuham came the Shuhamite family group. That was the family of Dan, ⁴³and the total number of men in the Shuhamite family group of Dan was 64,400.

⁴⁴These were the family groups in the tribe of Asher: From Imnah came the Imnite family group; from Ishvi came the Ishvite family group; from Beriah came the Beriite family group. ⁴⁵These were the family groups that came from Beriah: From Heber came the Heberite family group; from Malkiel came the Malkielite family group. ⁴⁶(Asher also had a daughter named Serah.) ⁴⁷These were the family groups of Asher, and the total number of men was 53,400.

⁴⁸These were the family groups in the tribe of Naphtali: From Jahzeel came the Jahzeelite family group; from Guni came the Gunite family group; ⁴⁹from Jezer came the Jezerite family group; from Shillem came the Shillemite family group. ⁵⁰These were the family groups of Naphtali, and the total number of men was 45,400.

⁵¹So the total number of the men of Israel was 601,730.

⁵²The Lord said to Moses, ⁵³“Divide the land among these people by the number of names. ⁵⁴A large tribe will get more land, and a small tribe will get less land; the amount of land each tribe gets will depend on the number of its people. ⁵⁵Divide the land by drawing lots, and the land each tribe gets will be named for that tribe. ⁵⁶Divide the land between large and small groups by drawing lots.”

⁵⁷The tribe of Levi was also counted. These were the family groups of Levi: From Gershon came the Gershonite family group; from Kohath came the Kohathite family group; from Merari came the Merarite family group. ⁵⁸These also were Levite family groups: the Libnite family group, the Hebronite family group, the Mahlite family group, the Mushite family group, and the Korahite family group. (Kohath was the ancestor of Amram, ⁵⁹whose wife was named Jochebed. She was from the tribe of Levi and she was born in Egypt. She and Amram had two sons, Aaron and Moses, and their sister Miriam. ⁶⁰Aaron was the father of Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar. ⁶¹But Nadab and Abihu died because they made an offering before the Lord with the wrong kind of fire.)

⁶²The total number of male Levites one month old or older was 23,000. But these men were not counted with the other Israelites, because they were not given any of the land among the other Israelites.

⁶³Moses and Eleazar the priest counted all these people. They counted the Israelites on the plains of Moab across the Jordan River from Jericho. ⁶⁴Moses and Aaron the priest had counted the Israelites in the Desert of Sinai, but no one Moses counted on the plains of Moab was in the first counting. ⁶⁵The Lord had told the Israelites they would all die in the desert, and the only two left were Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun.

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