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¹While Israel was staying in the Acacia Grove, the people began to prostitute themselves with the women of Moab.

²The women invited them to the sacrifices for their gods, and the people ate and bowed in worship to their gods.

³So Israel aligned itself with Baal of Peor, and the LORD’s anger burned against Israel.

⁴The LORD said to Moses, “Take all the leaders of the people and execute them in broad daylight before the LORD so that his burning anger may turn away from Israel.”

⁵So Moses told Israel’s judges, “Kill each of the men who aligned themselves with Baal of Peor.”

⁶An Israelite man came bringing a Midianite woman to his relatives in the sight of Moses and the whole Israelite community while they were weeping at the entrance to the tent of meeting.

⁷When Phinehas son of Eleazar, son of Aaron the priest, saw this, he got up from the assembly, took a spear in his hand,

⁸followed the Israelite man into the tent, and drove it through both the Israelite man and the woman — through her belly. Then the plague on the Israelites was stopped,

⁹but those who died in the plague numbered twenty-four thousand.

¹⁰The LORD spoke to Moses,

¹¹“Phinehas son of Eleazar, son of Aaron the priest, has turned back my wrath from the Israelites because he was zealous among them with my zeal, so that I did not destroy the Israelites in my zeal.

¹²Therefore declare: I grant him my covenant of peace.

¹³It will be a covenant of perpetual priesthood for him and his future descendants, because he was zealous for his God and made atonement for the Israelites.”

¹⁴The name of the slain Israelite man, who was struck dead with the Midianite woman, was Zimri son of Salu, the leader of a Simeonite family.

¹⁵The name of the slain Midianite woman was Cozbi, the daughter of Zur, a tribal head of a family in Midian.

¹⁶The LORD told Moses:

¹⁷“Attack the Midianites and strike them dead.

¹⁸For they attacked you with the treachery that they used against you in the Peor incident. They did the same in the case involving their sister Cozbi, daughter of the Midianite leader who was killed the day the plague came at Peor.”

¹After the plague, the LORD said to Moses and Eleazar son of Aaron the priest,

²“Take a census of the entire Israelite community by their ancestral families of those twenty years old or more who can serve in Israel’s army.”

³So Moses and the priest Eleazar said to them in the plains of Moab by the Jordan across from Jericho,

⁴“Take a census of those twenty years old or more, as the LORD had commanded Moses and the Israelites who came out of the land of Egypt.”

⁵Reuben was the firstborn of Israel. Reuben’s descendants: the Hanochite clan from Hanoch; the Palluite clan from Pallu;

⁶the Hezronite clan from Hezron; the Carmite clan from Carmi.

⁷These were the Reubenite clans, and their registered men numbered 43,730.

⁸The son of Pallu was Eliab.

⁹The sons of Eliab were Nemuel, Dathan, and Abiram. (It was Dathan and Abiram, chosen by the community, who fought against Moses and Aaron; they and Korah’s followers fought against the LORD.

¹⁰The earth opened its mouth and swallowed them with Korah, when his followers died and the fire consumed 250 men. They serve as a warning sign.

¹¹The sons of Korah, however, did not die.)

¹²Simeon’s descendants by their clans: the Nemuelite clan from Nemuel; the Jaminite clan from Jamin; the Jachinite clan from Jachin;

¹³the Zerahite clan from Zerah; the Shaulite clan from Shaul.

¹⁴These were the Simeonite clans, numbering 22,200 men.

¹⁵Gad’s descendants by their clans: the Zephonite clan from Zephon; the Haggite clan from Haggi; the Shunite clan from Shuni;

¹⁶the Oznite clan from Ozni; the Erite clan from Eri;

¹⁷the Arodite clan from Arod; the Arelite clan from Areli.

¹⁸These were the Gadite clans numbered by their registered men: 40,500.

¹⁹Judah’s sons included Er and Onan, but they died in the land of Canaan.

²⁰Judah’s descendants by their clans: the Shelanite clan from Shelah; the Perezite clan from Perez; the Zerahite clan from Zerah.

²¹The descendants of Perez: the Hezronite clan from Hezron; the Hamulite clan from Hamul.

²²These were Judah’s clans numbered by their registered men: 76,500.

²³Issachar’s descendants by their clans: the Tolaite clan from Tola; the Punite clan from Puvah;

²⁴the Jashubite clan from Jashub; the Shimronite clan from Shimron.

²⁵These were Issachar’s clans numbered by their registered men: 64,300.

²⁶Zebulun’s descendants by their clans: the Seredite clan from Sered; the Elonite clan from Elon; the Jahleelite clan from Jahleel.

²⁷These were the Zebulunite clans numbered by their registered men: 60,500.

²⁸Joseph’s descendants by their clans from Manasseh and Ephraim:

²⁹Manasseh’s descendants: the Machirite clan from Machir. Machir fathered Gilead; the Gileadite clan from Gilead.

³⁰These were Gilead’s descendants: the Iezerite clan from Iezer; the Helekite clan from Helek;

³¹the Asrielite clan from Asriel; the Shechemite clan from Shechem;

³²the Shemidaite clan from Shemida; the Hepherite clan from Hepher;

³³Zelophehad son of Hepher had no sons — only daughters. The names of Zelophehad’s daughters were Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.

³⁴These were Manasseh’s clans, numbered by their registered men: 52,700.

³⁵These were Ephraim’s descendants by their clans: the Shuthelahite clan from Shuthelah; the Becherite clan from Becher; the Tahanite clan from Tahan.

³⁶These were Shuthelah’s descendants: the Eranite clan from Eran.

³⁷These were the Ephraimite clans numbered by their registered men: 32,500. These were Joseph’s descendants by their clans.

³⁸Benjamin’s descendants by their clans: the Belaite clan from Bela; the Ashbelite clan from Ashbel; the Ahiramite clan from Ahiram;

³⁹the Shuphamite clan from Shupham; the Huphamite clan from Hupham.

⁴⁰Bela’s descendants from Ard and Naaman: the Ardite clan from Ard; the Naamite clan from Naaman.

⁴¹These were the Benjaminite clans numbered by their registered men: 45,600.

⁴²These were Dan’s descendants by their clans: the Shuhamite clan from Shuham. These were the clans of Dan by their clans.

⁴³All the Shuhamite clans numbered by their registered men: 64,400.

⁴⁴Asher’s descendants by their clans: the Imnite clan from Imnah; the Ishvite clan from Ishvi; the Beriite clan from Beriah.

⁴⁵From Beriah’s descendants: the Heberite clan from Heber; the Malchielite clan from Malchiel.

⁴⁶And the name of Asher’s daughter was Serah.

⁴⁷These were the Asherite clans numbered by their registered men: 53,400.

⁴⁸Naphtali’s descendants by their clans: the Jahzeelite clan from Jahzeel; the Gunite clan from Guni;

⁴⁹the Jezerite clan from Jezer; the Shillemite clan from Shillem.

⁵⁰These were the Naphtali clans numbered by their registered men: 45,400.

⁵¹These registered Israelite men numbered 601,730.

⁵²The LORD spoke to Moses,

⁵³“The land is to be divided among them as an inheritance based on the number of names.

⁵⁴Increase the inheritance for a large tribe and decrease it for a small one. Each is to be given its inheritance according to those who were registered in it.

⁵⁵The land is to be divided by lot; they will receive an inheritance according to the names of their ancestral tribes.

⁵⁶Each inheritance will be divided by lot among the larger and smaller tribes.”

⁵⁷These were the Levites registered by their clans: the Gershonite clan from Gershon; the Kohathite clan from Kohath; the Merarite clan from Merari.

⁵⁸These were the Levite family groups: the Libnite clan, the Hebronite clan, the Mahlite clan, the Mushite clan, and the Korahite clan. Kohath was the ancestor of Amram.

⁵⁹The name of Amram’s wife was Jochebed, a descendant of Levi, born to Levi in Egypt. She bore to Amram: Aaron, Moses, and their sister Miriam.

⁶⁰Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar were born to Aaron,

⁶¹but Nadab and Abihu died when they presented unauthorized fire before the LORD.

⁶²Those registered were 23,000, every male one month old or more; they were not registered among the other Israelites, because no inheritance was given to them among the Israelites.

⁶³These were the ones registered by Moses and the priest Eleazar when they registered the Israelites on the plains of Moab by the Jordan across from Jericho.

⁶⁴But among them there was not one of those who had been registered by Moses and the priest Aaron when they registered the Israelites in the Wilderness of Sinai.

⁶⁵For the LORD had said to them that they would all die in the wilderness. None of them was left except Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun.