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56 Each inheritance will be distributed by lot, to the larger and smaller groups.”

57 The Levite Census.[a]These were the Levites who were counted by their clans: Gershon, of the Gershonite clan; Kohath, of the Kohathite clan; and Merari, of the Merarite clan.[b] 58 These were also Levite clans: the Libnite clan; the Hebronite clan; the Mahlite clan; the Mushite clan; and the Kohathite clan.

Kohath became the father of Amram. Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Numbers 26:57 The two lists of Levite clans are not identical. They come from different traditions, the second being certainly the older. An attempt is made to reconcile them in 1 Chr 6:1-14.
  2. Numbers 26:57 The Levites have their own census as they did in the first counting (see ch. 3).