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Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

"^(F1)Among these the land shall be divided as an inheritance according to the number of names.

"^(C1)To a larger group you shall increase their inheritance, and to a smaller group you shall decrease their inheritance; each shall be given their inheritance corresponding to the total of those who were numbered of them.

"But the land shall be ^(C1)divided by lot. They shall receive their inheritance according to the names of the tribes of their fathers.

"Corresponding to the selection by lot, their inheritance shall be divided between the larger and the smaller groups."

^(C1)These are those who were numbered of the Levites according to their families: of Gershon, the family of the Gershonites; of Kohath, the family of the Kohathites; of Merari, the family of the Merarites.

These are the families of Levi: the family of the Libnites, the family of the Hebronites, the family of the Mahlites, the family of the Mushites, and the family of the Korahites. ^(C1)Kohath fathered Amram.

And the name of Amram's wife ^(C1)was Jochebed, the daughter of Levi, who was born to Levi in Egypt; and she bore to Amram Aaron and Moses, and their sister Miriam.

^(C1)And to Aaron were born Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.

^(C1)But Nadab and Abihu died when they offered ^(F1)strange fire before the LORD.

Those who were numbered of them were ^(C1)twenty-three thousand, every male from a month old and upward, for ^(C2)they were not numbered among the sons of Israel ^(C3)since no inheritance was given to them among the sons of Israel.