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Numbers 26:51-58 English Standard Version (ESV)

51. This was the list of the people of Israel, 601,730.

52. The Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

53. “Among these the land shall be divided for inheritance according to the number of names.

54. To a large tribe you shall give a large inheritance, and to a small tribe you shall give a small inheritance; every tribe shall be given its inheritance in proportion to its list.

55. But the land shall be divided by lot. According to the names of the tribes of their fathers they shall inherit.

56. Their inheritance shall be divided according to lot between the larger and the smaller.”

57. This was the list of the Levites according to their clans: of Gershon, the clan of the Gershonites; of Kohath, the clan of the Kohathites; of Merari, the clan of the Merarites.

58. These are the 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. And Kohath was the father of Amram.