3. So Moses and Eleazar the priest spoke with them in the plains of Moab, by the Jordan River across from Jericho. They said,
4. “Number the people from twenty years old and upward, just as the Lord commanded Moses and the Israelites who went out from the land of Egypt.”
5. Reuben was the firstborn of Israel. The Reubenites: from Hanoch, the family of the Hanochites; from Pallu, the family of the Palluites;
6. from Hezron, the family of the Hezronites; from Carmi, the family of the Carmites.
7. These were the families of the Reubenites; and those numbered of them were 43,730.
8. Pallu’s descendant was Eliab.
9. Eliab’s descendants were Nemuel, Dathan, and Abiram. It was Dathan and Abiram who as leaders of the community rebelled against Moses and Aaron with the followers of Korah when they rebelled against the Lord.
10. The earth opened its mouth and swallowed them and Korah at the time that company died, when the fire consumed 250 men. So they became a warning.
11. But the descendants of Korah did not die.
12. The Simeonites by their families: from Nemuel, the family of the Nemuelites; from Jamin, the family of the Jaminites; from Jakin, the family of the Jakinites;
13. from Zerah, the family of the Zerahites; and from Shaul, the family of the Shaulites.
14. These were the families of the Simeonites, 22,200.
15. The Gadites by their families: from Zephon, the family of the Zephonites; from Haggi, the family of the Haggites; from Shuni, the family of the Shunites;
16. from Ozni, the family of the Oznites; from Eri, the family of the Erites;
17. from Arod, the family of the Arodites, and from Areli, the family of the Arelites.
18. These were the families of the Gadites according to those numbered of them, 40,500.
19. The descendants of Judah were Er and Onan, but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan.
20. And the Judahites by their families were: from Shelah, the family of the Shelahites; from Perez, the family of the Perezites; and from Zerah, the family of the Zerahites.