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Numbers 26:53-62 Modern English Version (MEV)

53. To these the land will be divided for an inheritance by the number of names.

54. To a large tribe you shall give a large inheritance, and to small tribe you shall give a small inheritance. To each one his inheritance will be given according to those who were numbered of him.

55. But the land will be divided by lot. By the names of the tribes of their fathers they will inherit.

56. According to the lot his possession will be divided between large and small.

57. These are those counted of the Levites by their families:of Gershon, the family of the Gershonites;of Kohath, the family of the Kohathites;of Merari, the family of the Merarites.

58. These are the families of the Levites:the family of the Libnites,the family of the Hebronites,the family of the Mahlites,the family of the Mushites,the family of the Korahites.And Kohath begot Amram.

59. And the name of the wife of Amram was Jochebed, the daughter of Levi, whom her mother bore to Levi in Egypt, and she bore to Amram Aaron and Moses and Miriam their sister.

60. To Aaron was born Nadab, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.

61. Nadab and Abihu died when they offered foreign fire before the Lord.

62. Those who were numbered of them were twenty-three thousand, each male from a month old and older; for they were not counted among the children of Israel, because there was no inheritance given them among the children of Israel.

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