Numbers 26
KJ3 Literal Translation — Chapter 26 of 36
Chapter Summary
A second census is taken in the plains of Moab, counting all males from twenty years old and upward. The total is 601,730. Laws for dividing the inheritance by lot are given. The Levites are numbered separately. Only Caleb and Joshua remain from the original generation numbered at Sinai.
Key Hebrew Words
People & Context
Leader who, with Eleazar, numbers the second generation in the plains of Moab
Priest and son of Aaron who takes the census alongside Moses
Levite whose company was swallowed by the earth, recounted in the Reubenite genealogy
Reubenite who fought against Moses and Aaron with Korah and perished
Son of Jephunneh, one of only two from the first census permitted to live
Son of Nun, the other survivor of the original generation
Timeline
Moses and Eleazar number the Israelite men twenty years and older in the plains of Moab. The major tribal counts are: Reuben 43,730; Simeon 22,200; Gad 40,500; Judah 76,500; Issachar 64,300; Zebulun 60,500; Manasseh 52,700; Ephraim 32,500; Benjamin 45,600; Dan 64,400; Asher 53,400; Naphtali 45,400, totaling 601,730.
Numbers 26:1-56The Levite males from a month old and upward are numbered separately, totaling 23,000. They are not counted among the general sons of Israel because they are not given a land inheritance.
Numbers 26:57-62The census reveals that not one man from the original Sinai census remains alive, fulfilling God's judgment that the older generation would die in the wilderness. The only exceptions preserved alive are Caleb the son of Jephunneh and Joshua the son of Nun.
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