Numbers 26:52–62

⁵²The Lord spoke to Moses, saying, ⁵³“To these the land shall be apportioned for inheritance according to the number of names.^{* 54}To a large tribe you shall give a large inheritance, and to a small tribe you shall give a small inheritance; every tribe shall be given its inheritance according to its enrollment.^{* 55}But the land shall be apportioned by lot; according to the names of their ancestral tribes they shall inherit.^{* 56}Their inheritance shall be apportioned according to lot between the larger and the smaller.”

⁵⁷This is the enrollment of the Levites by their clans: of Gershon, the clan of the Gershonites; of Kohath, the clan of the Kohathites; of Merari, the clan of the Merarites. ⁵⁸These are the clans of Levi: the clan of the Libnites, the clan of the Hebronites, the clan of the Mahlites, the clan of the Mushites, the clan of the Korahites. Now Kohath was the father of Amram. ⁵⁹The name of Amram’s wife was Jochebed daughter of Levi, who was born to Levi in Egypt, and she bore to Amram: Aaron, Moses, and their sister Miriam.^{* 60}To Aaron were born Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.^{* 61}But Nadab and Abihu died when they offered unholy fire before the Lord.^{* 62}The number of those enrolled was twenty-three thousand, every male one month old and up, for they were not enrolled among the Israelites because there was no allotment given to them among the Israelites.^*