Numbers 26:33-27:7

International Standard Version

³³ Hepher’s son Zelophehad had no sons, but the names of Zelophehad’s daughters were Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah. ³⁴ These families of Manasseh numbered 52,700.

³⁵ The descendants of Ephraim, listed according to their families, included: From Shuthelah, the family of the descendants of Shuthelah; from Becher, the family of the descendants of Becher; and from Tahan, the family of the descendants of Tahan. ³⁶ The descendants of Shuthelah included from Eran, the family of the descendants of Eran. ³⁷ These families of Ephraim numbered 32,500. These were the descendants of Joseph, listed according to their families.

³⁸ The tribe of Benjamin, listed according to their families, included: From Bela, the family of the descendants of Bela; from Ashbel, the family of the descendants of Ashbel; from Ahiram, the family of the descendants of Ahiram; ³⁹ from Shephupham, the family of the descendants of Shephupham; and from Hupham, the family of the descendants of Hupham. ⁴⁰ The descendants of Bela were Ard and Naaman: From Ard, the family of the descendants of Ard; and from Naaman, the family of the descendants of Naaman. ⁴¹ These descendants of Benjamin’s families numbered 45,600.

⁴² The tribe of Dan, listed according to their families, included the families of the descendants of Shuham. ⁴³ All the families of the Shuhamites numbered 64,400.

⁴⁴ The tribe of Asher, listed according to their families, included: From Imnah, the family of the descendants of Imnah; from Ishvi, the family of the descendants of Ishvi; and from Beriah, the family of the descendants of Beriah. ⁴⁵ The descendants of Beriah included: From Heber, the family of the descendants of Heber; and from Malchiel, the family of the descendants of Malchiel. ⁴⁶ (The name of Asher’s daughter was Serah.) ⁴⁷ These descendants of Asher numbered 53,400.

⁴⁸ The tribe of Naphtali, listed according to their families, included: From Jahzeel, the family of the descendants of Jahzeel; from Guni, the family of the descendants of Guni; ⁴⁹ from Jezer, the family of the descendants of Jezer; and from Shillem, the family of the descendants of Shillem. ⁵⁰ These families of Naphtali numbered 45,400.

⁵¹ The total^[a] of those numbered among the Israelis was 601,730.

Instructions on Dividing the Land

⁵² Then the Lord told Moses, ⁵³ “The land is to be divided for an inheritance according to the total number of these names. ⁵⁴ The more there are in number,^[b] you are to increase their inheritance, and the less there are in number, you are to decrease their inheritance. You are to provide an inheritance to each based on the size of their family, ⁵⁵ but the land is to be divided by lot, inheriting according to the names of their ancestor’s tribe. ⁵⁶ Depending on the lot, the portion of their inheritance is to be divided between those with more members^[c] and those with fewer members.”^[d]

Levitical Genealogies

⁵⁷ Those who were numbered from the descendants of Levi, listed according to their families, included: From Gershon, the family of the descendants of Gershon; from Kohath, the family of the descendants of Kohath; and from Merari, the family of the descendants of Merari. ⁵⁸ These were the families of Levi: The family of the descendants of Libni, the family of the descendants of Hebron, the family of the descendants of Mahli, the family of the descendants of Musha, and the family of the descendants of Korah.

Now Kohath had a son named Amram. ⁵⁹ Amram’s wife was Levi’s daughter Jochebed, who was born to Levi in Egypt. She gave birth to Aaron, Moses, and their sister Miriam.

⁶⁰ To Aaron were born Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar. ⁶¹ But Nadab and Abihu died when they offered unauthorized fire in the Lord’s presence. ⁶² All of those individuals numbered 23,000. No male from the age of a month and above was numbered among the Israelis because no inheritance was to be assigned to them among the Israelis.

⁶³ So this has been a list of those who were registered^[e] by Moses and Eleazar the priest when they numbered the Israelis in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho. ⁶⁴ But none of these men among these numbered by Moses and by Aaron the priest (that is, when they numbered the Israelis in the wilderness of Sinai) survived to enter the land, ⁶⁵ because the Lord had said about them, “They’ll certainly die in the wilderness. No man will survive from them except Jephunneh’s son Caleb and Nun’s son Joshua.”

Zelophehad’s Daughters^(A)

27 Now the daughters of Hepher’s son Zelophehad, Gilead’s grandson, who had been fathered by Machir, who had been fathered by Manasseh, from the tribe of Manasseh, the direct son of Joseph, were named Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah. They approached ² Moses, Eleazar the priest, the elders, and the entire community at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting, stood before them, and said, ³ “Our father died in the wilderness, but he wasn’t with the company of those who gathered against the Lord along with the company of Korah. He died in his own sin, and he had no sons. ⁴ Why are you going to eliminate the name of our father from his family, just because he had no son? Give us a possession from among our father’s relatives.”

⁵ So Moses brought the family into the Lord’s presence, ⁶ and the Lord told Moses, ⁷ “The daughters of Zelophehad are telling the truth. You are certainly to give to them a possession for an inheritance among their father’s relatives. You are to pass on the inheritance of their father to them.