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Numbers 26 :: New King James Version (NKJV)

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The Second Census of Israel
The Second Census of Israel
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:1 - And it came to pass, after the plague, that the LORD spoke to Moses and Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, saying:
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:2 - “Take a census of all the congregation of the children of Israel from twenty years old and above, by their fathers’ houses, all who are able to go to war in Israel.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:3 - So Moses and Eleazar the priest spoke with them in the plains of Moab by the Jordan, across from Jericho, saying:
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:4 - Take a census of the people from twenty years old and above, just as the LORD commanded Moses and the children of Israel who came out of the land of Egypt.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:5 - Reuben was the firstborn of Israel. The children of Reuben were: of Hanoch, the family of the Hanochites; of Pallu, the family of the Palluites;
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:6 - of Hezron, the family of the Hezronites; of Carmi, the family of the Carmites.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:7 - These are the families of the Reubenites: those who were numbered of them were forty-three thousand seven hundred and thirty.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:8 - And the son of Pallu was Eliab.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:9 - The sons of Eliab were Nemuel, Dathan, and Abiram. These are the Dathan and Abiram, representatives of the congregation, who contended against Moses and Aaron in the company of Korah, when they contended against the LORD;
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:10 - and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up together with Korah when that company died, when the fire devoured two hundred and fifty men; and they became a sign.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:11 - Nevertheless the children of Korah did not die.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:12 - The sons of Simeon according to their families were: of Nemuel,[fn] the family of the Nemuelites; of Jamin, the family of the Jaminites; of Jachin,[fn] the family of the Jachinites;
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:13 - of Zerah,[fn] the family of the Zarhites; of Shaul, the family of the Shaulites.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:14 - These are the families of the Simeonites: twenty-two thousand two hundred.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:15 - The sons of Gad according to their families were: of Zephon,[fn] the family of the Zephonites; of Haggi, the family of the Haggites; of Shuni, the family of the Shunites;
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:16 - of Ozni,[fn] the family of the Oznites; of Eri, the family of the Erites;
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:17 - of Arod,[fn] the family of the Arodites; of Areli, the family of the Arelites.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:18 - These are the families of the sons of Gad according to those who were numbered of them: forty thousand five hundred.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:19 - The sons of Judah were Er and Onan; and Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:20 - And the sons of Judah according to their families were: of Shelah, the family of the Shelanites; of Perez, the family of the Parzites; of Zerah, the family of the Zarhites.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:21 - And the sons of Perez were: of Hezron, the family of the Hezronites; of Hamul, the family of the Hamulites.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:22 - These are the families of Judah according to those who were numbered of them: seventy-six thousand five hundred.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:23 - The sons of Issachar according to their families were: of Tola, the family of the Tolaites; of Puah,[fn] the family of the Punites;[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:24 - of Jashub, the family of the Jashubites; of Shimron, the family of the Shimronites.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:25 - These are the families of Issachar according to those who were numbered of them: sixty-four thousand three hundred.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:26 - The sons of Zebulun according to their families were: of Sered, the family of the Sardites; of Elon, the family of the Elonites; of Jahleel, the family of the Jahleelites.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:27 - These are the families of the Zebulunites according to those who were numbered of them: sixty thousand five hundred.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:28 - The sons of Joseph according to their families, by Manasseh and Ephraim, were:
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:29 - The sons of Manasseh: of Machir, the family of the Machirites; and Machir begot Gilead; of Gilead, the family of the Gileadites.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:30 - These are the sons of Gilead: of Jeezer,[fn] the family of the Jeezerites; of Helek, the family of the Helekites;
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:31 - of Asriel, the family of the Asrielites; of Shechem, the family of the Shechemites;
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:32 - of Shemida, the family of the Shemidaites; of Hepher, the family of the Hepherites.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:33 - Now Zelophehad the son of Hepher had no sons, but daughters; and the names of the daughters of Zelophehad were Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:34 - These are the families of Manasseh; and those who were numbered of them were fifty-two thousand seven hundred.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:35 - These are the sons of Ephraim according to their families: of Shuthelah, the family of the Shuthalhites; of Becher,[fn] the family of the Bachrites; of Tahan, the family of the Tahanites.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:36 - And these are the sons of Shuthelah: of Eran, the family of the Eranites.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:37 - These are the families of the sons of Ephraim according to those who were numbered of them: thirty-two thousand five hundred. These are the sons of Joseph according to their families.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:38 - The sons of Benjamin according to their families were: of Bela, the family of the Belaites; of Ashbel, the family of the Ashbelites; of Ahiram, the family of the Ahiramites;
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:39 - of Shupham,[fn] the family of the Shuphamites; of Hupham,[fn] the family of the Huphamites.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:40 - And the sons of Bela were Ard[fn] and Naaman: of Ard, the family of the Ardites; of Naaman, the family of the Naamites.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:41 - These are the sons of Benjamin according to their families; and those who were numbered of them were forty-five thousand six hundred.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:42 - These are the sons of Dan according to their families: of Shuham,[fn] the family of the Shuhamites. These are the families of Dan according to their families.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:43 - All the families of the Shuhamites, according to those who were numbered of them, were sixty-four thousand four hundred.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:44 - The sons of Asher according to their families were: of Jimna, the family of the Jimnites; of Jesui, the family of the Jesuites; of Beriah, the family of the Beriites.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:45 - Of the sons of Beriah: of Heber, the family of the Heberites; of Malchiel, the family of the Malchielites.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:46 - And the name of the daughter of Asher was Serah.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:47 - These are the families of the sons of Asher according to those who were numbered of them: fifty-three thousand four hundred.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:48 - The sons of Naphtali according to their families were: of Jahzeel,[fn] the family of the Jahzeelites; of Guni, the family of the Gunites;
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:49 - of Jezer, the family of the Jezerites; of Shillem, the family of the Shillemites.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:50 - These are the families of Naphtali according to their families; and those who were numbered of them were forty-five thousand four hundred.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:51 - These are those who were numbered of the children of Israel: six hundred and one thousand seven hundred and thirty.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:52 - Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying:
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:53 - “To these the land shall be divided as an inheritance, according to the number of names.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:54 - “To a large tribe you shall give a larger inheritance, and to a small tribe you shall give a smaller inheritance. Each shall be given its inheritance according to those who were numbered of them.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:55 - “But the land shall be divided by lot; they shall inherit according to the names of the tribes of their fathers.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:56 - “According to the lot their inheritance shall be divided between the larger and the smaller.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:57 - And these are those who were numbered of the Levites according to their families: of Gershon, the family of the Gershonites; of Kohath, the family of the Kohathites; of Merari, the family of the Merarites.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:58 - 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, and the family of the Korathites. And Kohath begot Amram.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:59 - The name of Amram’s wife was Jochebed the daughter of Levi, who was born to Levi in Egypt; and to Amram she bore Aaron and Moses and their sister Miriam.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:60 - To Aaron were born Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:61 - And Nadab and Abihu died when they offered profane fire before the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:62 - Now those who were numbered of them were twenty-three thousand, every male from a month old and above; for they were not numbered among the other children of Israel, because there was no inheritance given to them among the children of Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:63 - These are those who were numbered by Moses and Eleazar the priest, who numbered the children of Israel in the plains of Moab by the Jordan, across from Jericho.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:64 - But among these there was not a man of those who were numbered by Moses and Aaron the priest when they numbered the children of Israel in the Wilderness of Sinai.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:65 - For the LORD had said of them, “They shall surely die in the wilderness.” So there was not left a man of them, except Caleb the son of Jephunneh and Joshua the son of Nun.
NKJV Footnotes
Spelled Jemuel in Genesis 46:10 and Exodus 6:15
Called Jarib in 1 Chronicles 4:24
Called Zohar in Genesis 46:10
Called Ziphion in Genesis 46:16
Called Ezbon in Genesis 46:16
Spelled Arodi in Samaritan Pentateuch, Syriac, and Genesis 46:16
Hebrew Puvah (compare Genesis 46:13 and 1 Chronicles 7:1); Samaritan Pentateuch, Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate read Puah.
Samaritan Pentateuch, Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate read Puaites.
Called Abiezer in Joshua 17:2
Called Bered in 1 Chronicles 7:20
Masoretic Text reads Shephupham, spelled Shephuphan in 1 Chronicles 8:5.
Called Huppim in Genesis 46:21
Called Addar in 1 Chronicles 8:3
Called Hushim in Genesis 46:23
Spelled Jahziel in 1 Chronicles 7:13
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