53. "I will give the land to them. The amount of land each family receives will be based on the number of its men.
54. Give a larger share to a larger family. Give a smaller share to a smaller family. Each family will receive its share based on the number of men who are listed in it.
55. "Be sure that you use lots when you give out the land. What each family receives will be based on the number of men listed in its tribe.
56. Use lots when you give out each share. Use lots for the larger and smaller families alike."
57. Here are the names of the Levites. They are listed by their families. The Gershonite family came from Gershon. The Kohathite family came from Kohath. The Merarite family came from Merari.
58. Here are the names of the other Levite families. They are the Libnite family, the Hebronite family, the Mahlite family, the Mushite family, the Korahite family. Amram came from the Kohathite family.
59. The name of Amram's wife was Jochebed. She was from the family line of Levi. She was born to the Levites in Egypt. Aaron, Moses and their sister Miriam were born in the family line of Amram and Jochebed.
60. Aaron was the father of Nadab and Abihu. He was also the father of Eleazar and Ithamar.
61. But Nadab and Abihu made an offering to the Lord by using fire that wasn't allowed. So they died.
62. The number of male Levites who were a month old or more was 23,000. They weren't listed along with the other men of Israel. That's because they didn't receive a share among them.
63. Those are the men who were counted by Moses and the priest Eleazar. At that time the people of Israel were on the flatlands of Moab. They were by the Jordan River across from Jericho.
64. The men of Israel had been counted before in the Sinai Desert by Moses and the priest Aaron. But not one of them was among the men who were counted this time.