1. After the blood of the guilty was shed, the Lord said to Moses and to Eleazar the son of Aaron, the priest:
2. Number the whole sum of the children of Israel from twenty years old and upward, by their houses and kindreds, all that are able to go forth to war.
3. Moses therefore and Eleazar the priest, being in the plains of Moab upon the Jordan over against Jericho, spoke to them that were
4. From twenty years old and upward, as the Lord had commanded: and this is the number of them:
5. Ruben the firstborn of Israel. His sons were Henoch, of whom is the family of the Henochites: and Phallu, of whom is the family of the Phalluites:
6. And Hesron, of whom is the family of the Hesronites: and Charmi, of whom is the family of the Charmites.
7. These are the families of the stock of Ruben: whose number was found to be forty-three thousand seven hundred and thirty.
8. The son of Phallu was Eliab.
9. His sons, were Namuel and Dathan and Abiron. These are Dathan and Abiron the princes of the people, that rose against Moses and Aaron in the sedition of Core, when they rebelled against the Lord: