1. the Lord said to Moses and Eleazar, son of Aaron the priest:
2. Take a census, by ancestral houses, throughout the community of the Israelites of all those of twenty years or more who are eligible for military service in Israel.
3. So on the plains of Moab along the Jordan at Jericho, Moses and Eleazar the priest enrolled them,
4. those of twenty years or more, as the Lord had commanded Moses.The Israelites who came out of the land of Egypt were as follows:
5. Reuben, the firstborn of Israel. The descendants of Reuben by their clans were: through Hanoch, the clan of the Hanochites; through Pallu, the clan of the Palluites;
6. through Hezron, the clan of the Hezronites; through Carmi, the clan of the Carmites.
7. These were the clans of the Reubenites, and those enrolled numbered forty-three thousand seven hundred and thirty.
8. From Pallu descended Eliab.
9. The sons of Eliab were Nemuel, Dathan, and Abiram—the same Dathan and Abiram, ones designated by the community, who contended with Moses and Aaron as part of Korah’s faction when they contended with the Lord.
10. The earth opened its mouth and swallowed them, along with Korah, as a warning. The faction was destroyed when the fire consumed two hundred and fifty men.
11. The descendants of Korah, however, did not die out.