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Census of the people. - Command on the division of land in Canaan. Numbers 26:1. After this defeat the Lord spoke to Moses and Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, saying: Numbers 26:2. number all the congregation of the children of Israel, from twenty years old and upward, according to their families, all that are able to go to war against Israel. On the threshold of Canaan a new count of the people is being made. As a result of this calculation, it turned out that the tribe of Reuben had 43,730 people. Simeon - 22,200 people. Judah - 76,500 people. Dana – 64,400 people. Naphtali – 45,400 people. Gada – 40,500 people. Asira – 53,400 people. Issachar – 64,300 people. Zebulun - 60,500 people. Ephraim - 32,500 people Manasseh - 52,700 people. Veniamin – 45,600 people. Total – 601,730 people. Numbers 26:11. but the sons of Korah did not die. It is known that the descendants of Korah subsequently served at the tabernacle as singers ((1 Chronicles 6.33); inscriptions of psalms 41, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 83, 84, 86, 87). Numbers 26:55. The land should be divided by lot, according to the names of the tribes of their fathers they should receive inheritances; The lot was to indicate the area of ​​residence of the tribe. The determination of its quantity was to be determined by the number of people included in the tribal reckoning (Num. 26:54). Numbers 26:62. And they were numbered twenty-three thousand of all the males, from one month old and upward; for they were not numbered with the children of Israel, because no inheritance was given to them among the children of Israel. The Levites “were not given a (land) inheritance among the children of Israel,” because “the Lord himself is their inheritance” (Num. 18.20; Deut. 10.9, 18.2; Ezekiel 44.28). Numbers 26:64. among them there was not a single person who was numbered by Moses and Aaron the priest, who numbered the children of Israel in the wilderness of Sinai; Numbers 26:65. for the Lord told them that they would die in the wilderness, and there was none left of them except Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun. According to the instructions of the book. Deut.2:14, the noted circumstance began to become clear upon leaving the Zared Valley (Numbers 21.12). You might be interested in: