These are those who were numbered of the children of Israel, six hundred one thousand seven hundred thirty.

Then Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,

To these the land shall be divided for an inheritance according to the number of names.

You shall increase the larger group's inheritance, and you shall reduce the smaller group's inheritance. Each shall be given their inheritance according to those who were numbered of them.

But the land shall be apportioned by lot; they shall inherit it according to the names of the tribes of their fathers.

According to the lot their inheritance shall be apportioned among the larger and the smaller groups.

And 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, the family of the Korahites. And Kohath begot Amram.

And the name of Amram's wife 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.

And to Aaron were born Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.

And Nadab and Abihu died when they offered strange fire before Jehovah.

And those who were numbered of them were twenty-three thousand, every male from a month old and upward, for they were not numbered among the children of Israel, because no inheritance was given to them among the children of Israel.

These are those who were numbered by Moses and Eleazar the priest, who numbered the children of Israel in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho.

But among these there was not one of those numbered by Moses and Aaron the priest, who had numbered the children of Israel in the wilderness of Sinai.

For Jehovah had said of them, They shall surely die in the wilderness. And not one of them was left, except Caleb the son of Jephunneh and Joshua the son of Nun.

Then the daughters of Zelophehad the son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the families of Manasseh the son of Joseph came near. And these are the names of his daughters: Mahlah, Noah, and Hoglah, and Milcah and Tirzah.

And they stood before Moses and before Eleazar the priest and before the leaders and the whole assembly at the entrance of the Tent of Meeting, saying,

Our father died in the wilderness, and he was not among the company of those who gathered themselves together against Jehovah in the company of Korah; but he died in his own sin, and he had no sons.

Why should our father's name be taken away from among his family because he had no son? Give us a possession among our father's brothers.

And Moses brought their case before Jehovah.