King James Version · Egypt and Sinai
Numbers 26
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And it came to pass after the plague, that spake unto and unto the son of the priest, saying, Take the sum of all of the , from twenty years old and upward, throughout their fathers’ house, all that are able to go to war in Israel. And and the priest spake with them in by Jordan near , saying, Take the sum of the people, from twenty years old and upward; as commanded and the , which went forth out of the land of . , the eldest son of Israel: the children of ; , of whom cometh the family of the Hanochites: of , the family of the Palluites: 6Of , the family of the Hezronites: of , the family of the Carmites. These are the families of the : and they that were numbered of them were forty and three thousand and seven hundred and thirty. 8And the sons of ; . And the sons of ; , and , and . This is that and , which were famous in , who strove against and against in the company of , when they strove against : And the earth opened her , and swallowed them up together with , when that company , what time the devoured two hundred and fifty men: and they became a sign. Notwithstanding the children of not. The sons of after their families: of , the family of the Nemuelites: of , the family of the Jaminites: of , the family of the Jachinites: Of Zerah, the family of the Zarhites: of Shaul, the family of the Shaulites. These are the families of the , twenty and two thousand and two hundred. The children of Gad after their families: of , the family of the Zephonites: of Haggi, the family of the Haggites: of Shuni, the family of the Shunites: Of Ozni, the family of the Oznites: of Eri, the family of the Erites: Of Arod, the family of the Arodites: of Areli, the family of the Arelites. These are the families of the children of Gad according to those that were numbered of them, forty thousand and five hundred. The sons of Judah were and : and and in the land of . And the sons of Judah after their families were; of Shelah, the family of the Shelanites: of Pharez, the family of the Pharzites: of Zerah, the family of the Zarhites. 21And the sons of Pharez were; of , the family of the Hezronites: of , the family of the Hamulites. These are the families of Judah according to those that were numbered of them, threescore and sixteen thousand and five hundred. Of the sons of after their families: of , the family of the Tolaites: of Pua, the family of the Punites: Of , the family of the Jashubites: of , the family of the Shimronites. These are the families of according to those that were numbered of them, threescore and four thousand and three hundred. Of the sons of after their families: of Sered, the family of the Sardites: of , the family of the Elonites: of Jahleel, the family of the Jahleelites. These are the families of the according to those that were numbered of them, threescore thousand and five hundred. The after their families were and . Of the sons of : of , the family of the Machirites: and begat : of come the family of the Gileadites. These are the sons of : of Jeezer, the family of the Jeezerites: of Helek, the family of the Helekites: 31And of , the family of the Asrielites: and of , the family of the Shechemites: 32And of , the family of the Shemidaites: and of , the family of the Hepherites. And the son of had no sons, but daughters: and the names of the daughters of were , and , , , and . These are the families of , and those that were numbered of them, fifty and two thousand and seven hundred. These are the sons of after their families: of , the family of the Shuthalhites: of , the family of the Bachrites: of , the family of the Tahanites. 36And these are the sons of : of Eran, the family of the Eranites. These are the families of the sons of according to those that were numbered of them, thirty and two thousand and five hundred. These are the after their families. The sons of after their families: of , the family of the Belaites: of , the family of the Ashbelites: of Ahiram, the family of the Ahiramites: Of Shupham, the family of the Shuphamites: of Hupham, the family of the Huphamites. And the sons of were Ard and : of Ard, the family of the Ardites: and of , the family of the Naamites. These are the sons of after their families: and they that were numbered of them were forty and five thousand and six hundred. These are the sons of Dan after their families: of Shuham, the family of the Shuhamites. These are the families of Dan after their families. All the families of the Shuhamites, according to those that were numbered of them, were threescore and four thousand and four hundred. Of the children of Asher after their families: of Jimna, the family of the Jimnites: of Jesui, the family of the Jesuites: of , the family of the Beriites. 45Of the sons of : of , the family of the Heberites: of , the family of the Malchielites. And the name of the daughter of Asher was . These are the families of the sons of Asher according to those that were numbered of them; who were fifty and three thousand and four hundred. Of the sons of after their families: of , the family of the Jahzeelites: of , the family of the Gunites: Of , the family of the Jezerites: of , the family of the Shillemites. These are the families of according to their families: and they that were numbered of them were forty and five thousand and four hundred. These were the numbered of the , six hundred thousand and a thousand seven hundred and thirty. 52And spake unto , saying, Unto these the land shall be divided for an according to the number of names. To many thou shalt give the more , and to few thou shalt give the less : to every one shall his be given according to those that were numbered of him. Notwithstanding the land shall be divided by lot: according to the names of the tribes of their fathers they shall . According to the lot shall the possession thereof be divided between many and few. And these are they that were numbered of the after their families: of , the family of the : of , the family of the : of , the family of the . These are the families of the : the family of the Libnites, the family of the , the family of the Mahlites, the family of the Mushites, the family of the Korathites. And begat . And the name of ’s wife was , the daughter of , whom her mother to in : and she unto and , and their sister. And unto was born , and , , and . And and , when they offered strange before . And those that were numbered of them were twenty and three thousand, all males from a month old and upward: for they were not numbered among the , because there was no given them among the . These are they that were numbered by and the priest, who numbered the in by Jordan near . But among these there was not a man of them whom and the priest numbered, when they numbered the in of Sinai. For had said of them, They shall surely in . And there was not left a man of them, the son of , and the son of .
The 1611 translation, public domain. Its original printing included the Apocrypha, which is why the deuterocanonical books can be read here. Notes and cards are EKLI’s own.
The world at this moment · Egypt and Sinai, 1450 BC to 1200 BC ›
Israel in and then out of Egypt, at a period when Egypt was an imperial power that also controlled Canaan. The nation is formed as a people with a law before it has any land.
- Egypt
- The New Kingdom at its imperial peak, with a professional army, a chariot corps, and control reaching up through Canaan. Ramesses II reigns for sixty-six years and covers the country in monuments to himself. Egyptian power in this period is the reason Canaan is garrisoned rather than free.
- The Hittites
- The other superpower, in what is now Turkey, and Egypt's rival for the Levant. The two fight the largest chariot battle of the ancient world at Kadesh, then sign a treaty whose text survives from both sides. Hittite treaty form, with its historical prologue, stipulations, witnesses, blessings, and curses, is the shape the Sinai covenant takes, which is one of the stronger arguments for the antiquity of that material.
- The Aegean
- Mycenaean Greece: warrior kings in stone citadels at Mycenae and Pylos, keeping palace accounts in Linear B. The world of the Trojan War stories, whatever lies behind them.
- Further afield
- The Shang dynasty in China is casting extraordinary bronzes and writing questions to its ancestors on ox bones. In Mesoamerica the Olmec are beginning the first civilisation of the Americas.