The Message

Numbers 26:42-43-58-61 The Message (MSG)

42-43. The sons of Dan by clan:Shuham and the Shuhamite clan.These are the clans of Dan, all Shuhamite clans. They numbered 64,400.

44-47. The sons of Asher by clan:Imnah and the Imnite clan,Ishvi and the Ishvite clan,Beriah and the Beriite clan.The sons of Beriah:Heber and the Heberite clan,Malkiel and the Malkielite clan.Asher also had a daughter, Serah.These were the clans of Asher. They numbered 53,400.

48-50. The sons of Naphtali by clans:Jahzeel and the Jahzeelite clan,Guni and the Gunite clan,Jezer and the Jezerite clan,Shillem and the Shillemite clan.These were the clans of Naphtali. They numbered 45,400.

51. The total number of the People of Israel: 601,730.

52-54. God spoke to Moses: “Divide up the inheritance of the land based on population. A larger group gets a larger inheritance; a smaller group gets a smaller inheritance—each gets its inheritance based on the population count.

55-56. “Make sure that the land is assigned by lot.“Each group’s inheritance is based on population, the number of names listed in its ancestral tribe, divided among the many and the few by lot.”

57-58. These are the numberings of the Levites by clan:Gershon and the Gershonite clan,Kohath and the Kohathite clan,Merari and the Merarite clan.The Levite clans also included:the Libnite clan,the Hebronite clan,the Mahlite clan,the Mushite clan,the Korahite clan.

58-61. Kohath was the father of Amram. Amram’s wife was Jochebed, a descendant of Levi, born into the Levite family during the Egyptian years. Jochebed bore Aaron, Moses, and their sister Miriam to Amram. Aaron was the father of Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar; however, Nadab and Abihu died when they offered unauthorized sacrifice in the presence of God.