Numbers 26:52-65

New International Version

⁵²The Lord said to Moses, ⁵³“The land is to be allotted to them as an inheritance based on the number of names.^(A) ⁵⁴To a larger group give a larger inheritance, and to a smaller group a smaller one; each is to receive its inheritance according to the number^(B) of those listed.^(C) ⁵⁵Be sure that the land is distributed by lot.^(D) What each group inherits will be according to the names for its ancestral tribe. ⁵⁶Each inheritance is to be distributed by lot among the larger and smaller groups.”

⁵⁷These were the Levites^(E) who were counted by their clans:

through Gershon, the Gershonite clan;

through Kohath, the Kohathite clan;

through Merari, the Merarite clan.

⁵⁸These also were Levite clans:

the Libnite clan,

the Hebronite clan,

the Mahlite clan,

the Mushite clan,

the Korahite clan.

(Kohath was the forefather of Amram;^(F) ⁵⁹the name of Amram’s wife was Jochebed,^(G) a descendant of Levi, who was born to the Levites^[a] in Egypt. To Amram she bore Aaron, Moses^(H) and their sister^(I) Miriam.^(J) ⁶⁰Aaron was the father of Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.^(K) ⁶¹But Nadab and Abihu^(L) died when they made an offering before the Lord with unauthorized fire.)^(M)

⁶²All the male Levites a month old or more numbered 23,000.^(N) They were not counted^(O) along with the other Israelites because they received no inheritance^(P) among them.^(Q)

⁶³These are the ones counted^(R) by Moses and Eleazar the priest when they counted the Israelites on the plains of Moab^(S) by the Jordan across from Jericho.^(T) ⁶⁴Not one of them was among those counted^(U) by Moses and Aaron^(V) the priest when they counted the Israelites in the Desert of Sinai. ⁶⁵For the Lord had told those Israelites they would surely die in the wilderness,^(W) and not one of them was left except Caleb^(X) son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun.^(Y)