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.
63. These were counted by Moses and Eleazar the priest, who counted the children of Israel in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho.
64. But among these there was not a man counted by Moses and Aaron the priest when they counted the children of Israel in the Wilderness of Sinai
65. because the Lord had said of them, “They will surely die in the wilderness.” And there was not a man left of them, except Caleb the son of Jephunneh and Joshua the son of Nun.