“Take a census of the Kohathites from among the Levites, by their families and by their clans,

Those numbered from the Gershonites, by their families and by their clans,

I have given the Levites as a gift to Aaron and his sons from among the Israelites, to do the work for the Israelites in the tent of meeting, and to make atonement for the Israelites, so there will be no plague among the Israelites when the Israelites come near the sanctuary.”

“The Israelites are to observe the Passover at its appointed time.

These were the traveling arrangements of the Israelites according to their companies when they traveled.

The Israelites traveled on and camped in Oboth.

The descendants of Joseph by their families: Manasseh and Ephraim.

Now these were the Shuthelahites: from Eran, the family of the Eranites.

The Israelites traveled from Rameses and camped in Succoth.

from the tribe of the Simeonites, Shemuel son of Ammihud;

So the Israelites did so, and expelled them outside the camp. As the Lord had spoken to Moses, so the Israelites did.

Now Korah son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, and Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, and On son of Peleth, who were Reubenites, took men

But the Israelites defeated him in battle and took possession of his land from the Arnon to the Jabbok, as far as the Ammonites, for the border of the Ammonites was strongly defended.

These were the families of the Ephraimites, according to those numbered of them, 32,500. These were the descendants of Joseph by their families.

“‘On the first day of each month you must offer as a burnt offering to the Lord two young bulls, one ram, and seven unblemished lambs a year old,

“‘But you must offer to the Lord an offering made by fire, a burnt offering of two young bulls, one ram, and seven lambs one year old; they must all be unblemished.

But you must offer as the burnt offering, as a sweet aroma to the Lord, two young bulls, one ram, seven lambs one year old,

“‘On the second day you must offer twelve young bulls, two rams, fourteen lambs one year old, all without blemish,

because the tribe of the Reubenites by their families, the tribe of the Gadites by their families, and half of the tribe of Manasseh have received their inheritance.

Then Moses gave a ruling to the Israelites by the word of the Lord: “What the tribe of the Josephites is saying is right.