The second census
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📚And this happened after the plague: the LORD spoke to Moses and to Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, saying, 2 📚“Take a census of all the congregation of the children of Israel twenty years old and over, by their fathers’ households, everyone in Israel who is able to go to war”.26:2 Num 1:2. It was time to think about dividing Canaan among the people of Israel. So the new census (vs 52-56).⚜
3 📚And Moses and Eleazar the priest spoke with them in the plains of Moab by the river Jordan near Jericho, saying, 4 📚“Take a census of the people twenty years old and over, as the LORD commanded Moses”. And these are the children of Israel who came out of the land of Egypt:
5 📚Reuben, the eldest son of Israel; the children of Reuben: Hanoch, from whom comes 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 are the families of the Reubenites; and those of them who were counted were forty-three thousand seven hundred and thirty.
8 And the sons of Pallu was Eliab. 9 📚And the sons of Eliab: Nemuel, and Dathan, and Abiram. This is that Dathan and Abiram who were of reputation in the congregation, who struggled against Moses and against Aaron in the company of Korah, when they struggled against the LORD; 10 📚and the earth opened its mouth, and swallowed them up together with Korah, when that company died, at the time the fire consumed two hundred and fifty men; and they became a warning sign. 11 📚However Korah’s children did not die.
12 📚The sons of Simeon by their families: from Nemuel, the family of the Nemuelites; from Jamin, the family of the Jaminites; from Jachin, the family of the Jachinites; 13 📚from Zerah, the family of the Zarhites; from Shaul, the family of the Shaulites.
14 📚These are the families of the Simeonites, twenty-two thousand two hundred.
15 📚The children of Gad 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; from Areli, the family of the Arelites.
18 📚These are the families of the children of Gad according to those of them who were counted, forty thousand five hundred.
19 📚The sons of Judah were Er and Onan, but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan.
20 📚And the sons of Judah by their families were: from Shelah, the family of the Shelanites; from Pharez, the family of the Pharzites; from Zerah, the family of the Zarhites.
21 And the sons of Pharez were: from Hezron, the family of the Hezronites; from Hamul, the family of the Hamulites.
22 📚These are the families of Judah according to those of them who were counted, seventy-six thousand five hundred.
23 📚From the sons of Issachar by their families: from Tola, the family of the Tolaites; from Pua, the family of the Punites; 24 📚from Jashub, the family of the Jashubites; from Shimron, the family of the Shimronites.
25 📚These are the families of Issachar according to those of them who were counted, sixty-four thousand three hundred.
26 📚From the sons of Zebulun by their families: from Sered, the family of the Sardites; from Elon, the family of the Elonites; from Jahleel, the family of the Jahleelites.
27 📚These are the families of the Zebulunites according to those of them who were counted, sixty thousand five hundred.
28 📚The sons of Joseph by their families were Manasseh and Ephraim. 29 📚From the sons of Manasseh: from Machir, the family of the Machirites; and Machir begot Gilead; from Gilead comes the family of the Gileadites.
30 📚These are the sons of Gilead: from Jeezer, the family of the Jeezerites; from Helek, the family of the Helekites; 31 and from Asriel, the family of the Asrielites; and from Shechem, the family of the Shechemites; 32 and from Shemida, the family of the Shemidaites; and from Hepher, the family of the Hepherites. 33 📚And Zelophehad the son of Hepher had no sons, only daughters; and the names of the daughters of Zelophehad were Mahlah, and Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.
34 📚These are the families of Manasseh, and those of them who were counted were fifty-two thousand seven hundred.
26:34 Num 1:35. A large increase in number in the tribe of Manasseh.⚜
35 📚These are the sons of Ephraim by their families: from Shuthelah, the family of the Shuthalhites; from Becher, the family of the Bachrites; from Tahan, the family of the Tahanites.
36 And these are the sons of Shuthelah: from Eran, the family of the Eranites.
37 📚These are the families of the sons of Ephraim according to those of them who were counted, thirty-two thousand five hundred. These are the sons of Joseph by their families.
38 📚The sons of Benjamin by their families: from Bela, the family of the Belaites; from Ashbel, the family of the Ashbelites; from Ahiram, the family of the Ahiramites; 39 📚from Shupham, the family of the Shuphamites; from Hupham, the family of the Huphamites.
40 📚And the sons of Bela were Ard and Naaman; from Ard, the family of the Ardites, and from Naaman, the family of the Naamites.
41 📚These are the sons of Benjamin by their families; and those of them who were counted were forty-five thousand six hundred.
42 📚These are the sons of Dan by their families: from Shuham, the family of the Shuhamites. These are the families of Dan by their families. 43 📚All the families of the Shuhamites, according to those of them who were counted were sixty-four thousand four hundred.
44 📚From the children of Asher by their families: from Jimna, the family of the Jimnites; from Jesui, the family of the Jesuites; from Beriah, the family of the Beriites. 45 From the sons of Beriah: from Heber, the family of the Heberites; from Malchiel, the family of the Malchielites. 46 📚And the name of the daughter of Asher was Sarah.
47 📚These are the families of the sons of Asher according to those of them who were counted, fifty-three thousand four hundred.
48 📚From the sons of Naphtali by their families; from Jahzeel, the family of the Jahzeelites; from Guni, the family of the Gunites; 49 📚from Jezer, the family of the Jezerites; from Shillem, the family of the Shillemites.
50 📚These are the families of Naphtali by their families; and those of them who were counted were forty-five thousand four hundred.
51 📚These were those of the children of Israel who were counted: six hundred and one thousand seven hundred and thirty.
26:51 A reduction of 1,820 from the census taken a generation earlier. The nation did not prosper during the desert wanderings and lost many people by plagues and rebellions (Num 11:33-34; 14:37, 45; 16:32, 35, 49; 25:9). Moses’ view of those years is found in Ps 90:7-9. Ps 78:32-41 sums up that time. Yet God taught them many valuable spiritual lessons through it all (Deut 8:1-5).⚜
52 And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 53 📚“The land is to be divided among these as an inheritance according to the number of names. 54 📚You must give more inheritance to a larger group, and to a smaller group you must give a smaller inheritance. Each group's inheritance is to be given according to the number of those who were counted. 55 📚But the land is to be divided by lot; they shall inherit it according to the names of the tribes of their fathers. 56 📚Their inheritance is to be divided by lot between larger and smaller groups”.
57 📚And those of the Levites who were counted by their families are these: from Gershon, the family of the Gershonites; from Kohath, the family of the Kohathites; from Merari, the family of the Merarites. 58 📚These are the families of the Levites: the family of the Libnites, the family of the Hebronites, the family of the Mahlites, the family of the Mushites, the family of the Korathites. And Kohath begot Amram.
59 📚And the name of Amram’s wife was Jochebed, the daughter of Levi, whom her mother bore to Levi in Egypt; and she bore to Amram Aaron and Moses, and Miriam their sister. 60 📚And to Aaron was born Nadab, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar. 61 📚And Nadab and Abihu died when they offered strange fire before the Lord.
62 📚And those of them who were counted were twenty-three thousand, all males a month old or more; for they were not counted among the children of Israel, because no inheritance was given them among the children of Israel.
63 📚These are those who were counted by Moses and Eleazar the priest, who counted the children of Israel in the plains of Moab by the Jordan near Jericho. 64 📚But among these there was not a man of those whom Moses and Aaron the priest counted when they counted the children of Israel in the desert of Sinai. 65 📚For the LORD had said of them, “They shall surely die in the desert”. And not a man was left of them, except Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.