The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 04: Numbers: The Challoner Revision
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The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 04: Numbers: The Challoner Revision
Bible. Numbers
26:42. The sons of Dan by their kindreds: Suham, of whom is the family
of the Suhamites: These are the kindreds of Dan by their families.
26:43. All were Suhamites, whose number was sixty-four thousand four
hundred.
26:44. The sons of Aser by their kindreds: Jemna, of whom is the family
of the Jemnaites: Jessui, of whom is the family of the Jessuites: Brie,
of whom is the family of the Brieites.
26:45. The sons of Brie: Heber, of whom is the family of the Heberites:
and Melchiel, of whom is the family of the Melchielites.
26:46. And the name of the daughter of Aser, was Sara.
26:47. These are the kindreds of the sons of Aser, and their number
fifty-three thousand four hundred.
26:48. The sons of Nephtali by their kindreds: Jesiel, of whom is the
family of the Jesielites: Guni, of whom is the family of the Gunites:
26:49. Jeser, of whom is the family of the Jeserites: Sellem, of whom is
the family of the Sellemites.
26:50. These are the kindreds of the sons of Nephtali by their families:
whose number was forty-five thousand four hundred.
26:51. This is the sum of the children of Israel, that were reckoned up,
six hundred and one thousand seven hundred and thirty.
26:52. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
26:53. To these shall the land be divided for their possessions
according to the number of names.
26:54. To the greater number thou shalt give a greater portion, and to
the fewer a less: to every one, as they have now been reckoned up, shall
a possession be delivered:
26:55. Yet so that by lot the land be divided to the tribe and families.
26:56. Whatsoever shall fall by lot, that shall be taken by the more, or
the fewer.
26:57. This also is the number of the sons of Levi by their families:
Gerson, of whom is the family of the Gersonites: Caath, of whom is the
family of the Caathites: Merari, of whom is the family of the Merarites.
26:58. These are the families of Levi: The family of Lobni, the family
of Hebroni, the family of Core. Now Caath begot Amram:
26:59. Who had to wife Jochabed the daughter of Levi, who was born to
him in Egypt. She bore to her husband Amram sons, Aaron and Moses, and
Mary their sister.
26:60. Of Aaron were born Nadab and Abiu, and Eleazar and Ithamar:
26:61. Of whom Nadab and Abiu died, when they had offered the strange
fire before the Lord.
26:62. And all that were numbered, were twenty-three thousand males from
one month old and upward: for they were not reckoned up among the
children of Israel, neither was a possession given to them with the
rest.
26:63. This is the number of the children of Israel, that were enrolled
by Moses and Eleazar the priest, in the plains of Moab upon the Jordan,
over against Jericho.
26:64. Among whom there was not one of them that were numbered before by
Moses and Aaron in the desert of Sinai.
26:65. For the Lord had foretold that they should die in the wilderness.
And none remained of them, but Caleb the son of Jephone, and Josue the
son of Nun.
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