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Numbers 26:49-63 New American Bible, Revised Edition (NABRE)

49. through Jezer, the clan of the Jezerites; through Shillem, the clan of the Shillemites.

50. These were the clans of Naphtali, of whom there were enrolled forty-five thousand four hundred.

51. These were the Israelites who were enrolled: six hundred and one thousand seven hundred and thirty.

52. The Lord said to Moses:

53. Among these the land shall be divided as their heritage in keeping with the number of people named.

54. To a large tribe you shall assign a large heritage, to a small tribe a small heritage, each receiving its heritage in proportion to the number enrolled in it.

55. But the land shall be divided by lot, all inheriting according to the lists of their ancestral tribes.

56. As the lot falls the heritage of each tribe, large or small, will be assigned.

57. These were the Levites enrolled by clans: through Gershon, the clan of the Gershonites; through Kohath, the clan of the Kohathites; through Merari, the clan of the Merarites.

58. These were clans of Levi: the clan of the Libnites, the clan of the Hebronites, the clan of the Mahlites, the clan of the Mushites, the clan of the Korahites.Now Kohath begot Amram,

59. whose wife was named Jochebed. She was the daughter of Levi, born to Levi in Egypt. To Amram she bore Aaron and Moses and Miriam their sister.

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

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

62. The Levites enrolled were twenty-three thousand, every male one month or more of age. They were not enrolled with the other Israelites, however, for no heritage was given them among the Israelites.

63. These, then, were those enrolled by Moses and Eleazar the priest, when they enrolled the Israelites on the plains of Moab along the Jordan at Jericho.

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