Lexham English Bible

Numbers 26:40-55 Lexham English Bible (LEB)

40. The sons of Bela were Ard and Naaman: of Ard, the clan of the Ardites; of Naaman, the clan of the Naamites.

41. These were the descendants of Benjamin according to their clans. And the ones counted of them were forty-five thousand six hundred.

42. These were the descendants of Dan according to their clans: of Shuham, the clan of the Shuhamites. These were the clans of Dan according to their clans.

43. All the clans of the Shuhamites, according to the ones counted of them, were sixty-four thousand four hundred.

44. The descendants of Asher according to their clans: of Imnah, the clan of the Imnahites; of Ishvi, the clan of the Ishvites; of Beriah, the clan of the Beriahites.

45. The descendants of Beriah: of Heber, the clan of the Heberites; of Malkiel, the clan of the Malkielites.

46. The name of the daughter of Asher was Serah.

47. These were the clans of the descendants of Asher according to the ones counted of them, fifty-three thousand four hundred.

48. The descendants of Naphtali according to their clans: of Jahzeel, the clan of the Jahzeelites; of Guni, the clan of the Gunites;

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

50. These were the clans of Naphtali according to their clans, the ones counted of them, forty-five thousand four hundred.

51. These were the ones counted of the Israelites, six hundred and one thousand seven hundred and thirty.

52. Then Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

53. “For these the land must be divided as an inheritance according to the number of names.

54. For the larger group you must increase their inheritance, and for the smaller group you must make smaller their inheritance; each must be given their inheritance according to the number of the ones counted of them.

55. Surely the land will be divided by lot. They will inherit according to the names of the tribes of their ancestors.