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Números 26

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1Aconteceu pois que, depois d'aquella praga, fallou o Senhor a Moysés, e a Eleazar, filho d'Aarão o sacerdote, dizendo:

2Tomae a somma de toda a congregação dos filhos de Israel, da edade de vinte annos e para cima, segundo as casas de seus paes: todo o que em Israel sae ao exercito.

3Fallou-lhes pois Moysés e Eleazar o sacerdote, nas campinas de Moab, ao pé do Jordão de Jericó, dizendo:

4Conta o povo da edade de vinte annos e para cima, como o Senhor ordenara a Moysés e aos filhos d'Israel, que sairam do Egypto.

5Ruben, o primogenito de Israel: os filhos de Ruben foram Hanoch, do qual era a familia dos hanochitas: de Pallu a familia dos palluitas;

6De Hezrona, familia dos hezronitas: de Carmi, a familia dos carmitas:

7Estas são as familias dos rubenitas: e os que foram d'elles contados, foram quarenta e tres mil e setecentos e trinta.

8E os filhos de Pallu, Eliab:

9E os filhos d'Eliab, Nemuel, e Dathan, e Abiram: estes, Dathan e Abiram, foram os afamados da congregação, que moveram a contenda contra Moysés e contra Aarão na congregação de Coré, quando moveram a contenda contra o Senhor

10E a terra abriu a sua bocca, e os tragou com Coré, quando morreu a congregação: quando o fogo consumiu duzentos e cincoenta homens, e foram por signal.

11Mas os filhos de Coré não morreram.

12Os filhos de Simeão, segundo as suas familias: de Nemuel, a familia dos nemuelitas: de Jamin, a familia dos jaminitas: de Jachin, a familia dos jachinitas:

13De Zerah, a familia dos zerahitas: de Saul, a familia dos saulitas.

14Estas são as familias dos simeonitas vinte e dois mil e duzentos.

15Os filhos de Gad, segundo as suas gerações: de Zephon, a familia dos zephonitas: de Haggi, a familia dos haggitas: de Suni, a familia dos sunitas:

16De Ozni, a familia dos oznitas: de Heri, a familia dos heritas:

17De Arod , a familia dos aroditas: de Areli, a familia dos arelitas.

18Estas são as familias dos filhos de Gad, segundo os que foram d'elles contados, quarenta mil e quinhentos.

19Os filhos de Judah, Er e Onan: mas Er e Onan morreram na terra de Canaan.

20Assim os filhos de Judah foram segundo as suas familias; de Selah a familia dos selanitas: de Pharez, a familia dos pharezitas; de Zerah, a familia dos zerahitas.

21E os filhos de Pharez foram; de Hezron, a familia dos hezronitas: de Hamul, a familia doa hamulitas.

22Estas são as familias de Judah, segundo os que foram d'elles contados, setenta e seis mil e quinhentos.

23Os filhos d'Issacar, segundo as suas familias, foram; de Tola, a familia dos tolaitas: de Puva a familia dos puvitas,

24De Jasub a familia dos jasubitas: de Simron, a familia dos simronitas.

25Estas são as familias d'Issacar, segundo os que foram d'elles contados, sessenta e quatro mil e trezentos.

26Os filhos de Zebulon, segundo as suas familias, foram; de Sered, a familia dos sereditas: d'Elon, a familia dos elonitas: de Jahleel, a familia dos jahleelitas.

27Estas são as familias dos zebulonitas, segundo os que foram d'elles contados, sessenta mil e quinhentos.

28Os filhos de José segundo as suas familias, foram Manasseh e Ephraim.

29Os filhos de Manasseh foram; de Machir, a familia dos machiritas; e Machir gerou a Gilead: de Gilead, a familia dos gileaditas.

30Estes são os filhos de Gilead: de Jezer, a familia dos jezeritas: de Helek, a familia das helekitas:

31E d'Asriel, a familia dos asrielitas: e de Sechen, a familia dos sechenitas:

32E de Semida, a familia dos semidaitas: e de Hepher, a familia dos hepheritas.

33Porém Selofad, filho de Hepher, não tinha filhos, senão filhas: e os nomes das filhas de Selofad foram Machla, Noa, Hogla, Milca e Tirza.

34Estas são as familias de Manasseh: e os que foram d'elles contados, foram cincoenta e dois mil e setecentos.

35Estes são os filhos d'Ephraim, segundo as suas familias: de Sutelah, a familia dos sutelahitas: de Becher, a familia dos becheritas: de Tahan, a familia dos tahanitas.

36E estes são os filhos de Sutelah: d'Eran, a familia dos eranitas.

37Estas são as familias dos filhos d'Ephraim, segundo os que foram d'elles contados, trinta e dois mil e quinhentos: estes são os filhos de José, segundo as suas familias.

38Os filhos de Benjamin, segundo as suas familias; de Bela, a familia dos belaitas: d'Asbel, a familia dos asbelitas: de Ahiram, a familia dos ahiramitas;

39De Supham, a familia dos suphamitas: de Hupham, a familia dos huphamitas.

40E os filhos de Bela foram Ard e Naaman: d'Ard a familia dos arditas: de Naaman a familia dos naamanitas.

41Estes são os filhos de Benjamin, segundo as suas familias: e os que foram d'elles contados, foram quarenta e cinco mil e seiscentos.

42Estes são os filhos de Dan, segundo as suas familias; de Suham a familia dos suhamitas: estas são as familias de Dan, segundo as suas familias.

43Todas as familias dos suhamitas, secundo os que foram d'elles contados, foram sessenta e quatro mil e quatrocentos.

44Os filhos d'Aser, segundo as suas familias, foram: d'Imna, a familia dos imnaitas: d'Isvi, a familia dos isvitas, de Berish, a familia dos beriitas.

45Dos filhos de Beriah, foram; de Heber, a familia dos heberitas; de Malchiel, a familia dos malchielitas.

46E o nome da filha d'Aser foi Serah.

47Estas são as familias dos filhos d'Aser, segundo os que foram d'elles contados, cincoenta e tres mil e quatrocentos.

48Os filhos de Naphtali, segundo as suas familias: de Jahzeel, a familia dos jahzeelitas: de Guni, a familia dos gunitas:

49De Jezer, a familia dos jezeritas: de Sillem, a familia dos sillemitas.

50Estas são as familias de Naphtali, segundo as suas familias: e os que foram d'elles contados, foram quarenta e cinco mil e quatrocentos.

51Estes são os contados dos filhos d'Israel, seiscentos e um mil e setecentos e trinta.

52E fallou o Senhor a Moysés, dizendo:

53A estes se repartirá a terra em herança, segundo o numero dos nomes.

54Aos muitos multiplicarás a sua herança, e aos poucos diminuirás a sua herança: a cada qual se dará a sua herança, segundo os que foram d'elles contados.

55Todavia a terra se repartirá por sortes: segundo os nomes das tribus de seus paes a herdarão.

56Segundo sair a sorte, se repartirá a herança d'elles entre os muitos e poucos.

57E estes são os que foram contados de Levi, segundo as suas familias: de Gerson, a familia dos gersonitas; de Kohath, a familia dos kohathitas; de Merari, a familia dos meraritas.

58Estas são as familias de Levi: a familia dos libnitas, a familia dos hebronitas, a familia dos mahlitas, a familia dos musitas, a familia dos corhitas: e Kohath gerou a Amram.

59E o nome da mulher de Amram foi Jochebed, filha de Levi, a qual a Levi nasceu no Egypto: e esta a Amram pariu Aarão, e Moysés, e Miriam, sua irmã.

60E a Aarão nasceram Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, e Ithamar.

61Porém Nadab e Abihu morreram quando trouxeram fogo estranho perante o Senhor.

62E foram os que foram d'elles contados vinte e tres mil, todo o macho da edade de um mez e para cima: porque estes não foram contados entre os filhos de Israel, porquanto lhes não foi dada herança entre os filhos de Israel.

63Estes são os que foram contados por Moysés e Eleazar, o sacerdote, que contaram os filhos de Israel nas campinas de Moab, ao pé do Jordão de Jericó.

64E entre estes nenhum houve dos que foram contados por Moysés e Aarão, o sacerdote; quando contaram aos filhos de Israel no deserto de Sinai.

65Porque o Senhor dissera d'elles que certamente morreriam no deserto: e nenhum d'elles ficou, senão Caleb, filho de Jefoné, e Josué, filho de Nun.

📖 Chapter study

Summary

After the plague and the end of the rebellious generation, God orders a second census of the children of Israel, now the generation that would actually enter the promised land. The total is similar to the first census, but almost no individual is the same, except Caleb and Joshua.

Explanation

This second census marks a symbolic and literal generational transition: of the men counted 40 years earlier, practically none survived, fulfilling exactly the judgment announced in Numbers 14, with the one notable exception of Caleb and Joshua, who had remained faithful. The total number of Israelites remains statistically similar (601,730 versus 603,550), showing that despite the generational tragedy, God faithfully preserved the nation as a whole, fulfilling His promise of multiplication to Abraham even through severe discipline. The specific mention that 'the sons of Korah did not die' (v. 11) foreshadows a note of grace in the midst of judgment, laying the groundwork for their future importance as singers in the temple.

Fun facts

  • This chapter also mentions for the first time the five daughters of Zelophehad (Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah), whose situation of inheritance without brothers would become the center of an important legal question resolved in chapters 27 and 36.
  • The near-identical precision between the two censuses (a difference of less than 2,000 people out of more than 600,000, over 40 years of hardship in the wilderness) is noted by commentators as a sign of God's providential faithfulness in preserving the nation despite the discipline.

Verse-by-verse explanation

  1. Números 26:1After the plague from the previous chapter, the LORD speaks to Moses and to Eleazar — no longer to Aaron, who had already died — signaling that a new generation of leaders is now in charge.
  2. Números 26:2The order is to take a second census, counting again the men twenty years old and up who are fit for war, tribe by tribe.
  3. Números 26:3Moses and Eleazar pass this order on to the people already in the plains of Moab, near the Jordan, facing Jericho — the same place where the book ends.
  4. Números 26:4This new census follows exactly the same criteria as the first: twenty years old and up, but now applied to a nearly entirely new generation, since the previous one had died in the wilderness.
  5. Números 26:5Starting with Reuben, the firstborn of Israel, the text lists the families descended from Hanoch and Pallu.
  6. Números 26:6Continuing Reuben’s list, the families descended from Hezron and Carmi appear.
  7. Números 26:7The total for the tribe of Reuben in this second census reaches 43,730 men.
  8. Números 26:8Within Pallu’s line, the text specifically highlights his son Eliab.
  9. Números 26:9Eliab’s sons were Nemuel, Dathan, and Abiram — the same Dathan and Abiram who, decades earlier, led the rebellion against Moses and Aaron together with Korah.
  10. Números 26:10The text recalls their fate: swallowed by the earth along with Korah, while fire consumed the 250 men who had joined the rebellion, all of it standing as a permanent warning.
  11. Números 26:11A curious detail closes out the case: the children of Korah, unlike their father, did not die in that episode — a detail that explains why psalms attributed to the “sons of Korah” appear later in the Bible.
  12. Números 26:12The list continues with Simeon, with the families descended from Nemuel, Jamin, and Jachin.
  13. Números 26:13These are the families of Simeon in the second census, taken 38 years after the first. The tribe plunged from 59,300 to 22,200 men — the sharpest drop of all twelve, tied to the plague in the previous chapter.
  14. Números 26:14Simeon’s total plunges to 22,200 men — a drastic drop compared to the 59,300 of the first census, decades earlier.
  15. Números 26:15The tribe of Gad is counted next, with the families of Zephon, Haggi, and Shuni.
  16. Números 26:16Two more families of Gad in the second census. The tribe dropped from 45,650 to 40,500 men between one generation and the next — almost the entire generation that left Egypt had already died in the wilderness.
  17. Números 26:17Arod and Areli close out the families of Gad, a tribe that would eventually ask to stay on the other side of the Jordan, because of the good pastureland there.
  18. Números 26:18This is Gad’s total in the second census, 38 years after the first: a drop of just over 5,000 men. It is a new generation being counted — almost no one from the first census remained.
  19. Números 26:19Coming to Judah, the text quickly recalls that two of his sons, Er and Onan, had already died back in the land of Canaan, in a story told in Genesis.
  20. Números 26:20Judah’s families come from Shelah, Pharez, and Zerah; it is through the line of Pharez that the genealogy continues down to David, and later, in the Gospels, to Jesus.
  21. Números 26:21Within Pharez’s line, the families of Hezron and Hamul also appear.
  22. Números 26:22Judah’s total reaches 76,500 men, keeping its position as the largest of the twelve tribes, just as it had been in the first census.
  23. Números 26:23First families of Issachar in the second census. Unlike Gad and Simeon, this tribe grew quite a bit between generations, as the total at the end of the list will show.
  24. Números 26:24Two more families of Issachar complete the list before the total of the second census: the tribe rose from 54,400 to 64,300 men in one generation.
  25. Números 26:25Issachar grew by almost 10,000 men from the first census to the second — from 54,400 to 64,300 — one of the largest gains among the twelve tribes in this new generation.
  26. Números 26:26These three families make up the entire tribe of Zebulun in the second census — which also grew, from 57,400 to 60,500 men, over the 38 years in the wilderness.
  27. Números 26:27Zebulun totals 60,500 men in this second census, a moderate increase over the 57,400 of the first count, taken back in the wilderness of Sinai.
  28. Números 26:28Coming to the sons of Joseph, the text divides them, as always, into two separate tribes: Manasseh and Ephraim.
  29. Números 26:29Within Manasseh, the line runs through Machir, who fathered Gilead, giving rise to the family of the Gileadites.
  30. Números 26:30Jeezer and Helek open the families of Gilead, within Manasseh — the same clan that gives its name to the mountainous region east of the Jordan.
  31. Números 26:31Still within Gilead, the families of Asriel and Shechem appear.
  32. Números 26:32Hepher is the father of Zelophehad, whose five daughters — with no brothers — will ask Moses for the right to inherit land, a case that changes the law of inheritance in Israel.
  33. Números 26:33Here an important detail appears for later on: Zelophehad, son of Hepher, had no sons, only five daughters — Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah — whose case will bring about a change in the law of inheritance in chapter 27.
  34. Números 26:34Manasseh makes the most striking jump of the second census: from 32,200 men, the smallest tribe in the first count, to 52,700 — even surpassing its brother tribe, Ephraim.
  35. Números 26:35Moving on to Ephraim, the text lists the families of Shuthelah, Becher, and Tahan.
  36. Números 26:36Within the line of Shuthelah, the family of Eran also appears.
  37. Números 26:37Ephraim’s total reaches 32,500 men, closing out the two tribes descended from Joseph.
  38. Números 26:38Benjamin is counted next, with the families of Bela, Ashbel, and Ahiram.
  39. Números 26:39These families close out the list for Benjamin in the second census. The tribe grew significantly, from 35,400 to 45,600 men, between the first and second generations.
  40. Números 26:40Within the line of Bela, the sons Ard and Naaman also appear, each giving rise to his own family.
  41. Números 26:41Benjamin totals 45,600 men in the second census, an increase of more than 10,000 over the first count — part of the same turnaround that also lifted Manasseh.
  42. Números 26:42Dan is counted as a single large family, the Shuhamites, descended from Shuham.
  43. Números 26:43The total for this Shuhamite family, which represents the entire tribe of Dan, reaches 64,400 men.
  44. Números 26:44These families open the list for Asher in the second census — a tribe that grew by nearly 30 percent between the two generations, behind only Manasseh’s even bigger leap.
  45. Números 26:45Within the line of Beriah, the families of Heber and Malchiel appear.
  46. Números 26:46The text also records the name of Asher’s daughter: Sarah, a rare mention of a woman in this kind of genealogical list.
  47. Números 26:47Asher jumps from 41,500 to 53,400 men between the two censuses — a growth of nearly 30 percent, behind only Manasseh’s even bigger leap.
  48. Números 26:48These families open the list for Naphtali in the second census — one of the few tribes that shrank: from 53,400 to 45,400 men between the two generations.
  49. Números 26:49Two more families close out the list for Naphtali before the total of the second census, which shows the tribe smaller than it had been 38 years earlier.
  50. Números 26:50Naphtali ends the second census with 45,400 men, almost 8,000 fewer than in the first count — a drop with only a few families behind it.
  51. Números 26:51Adding up all the tribes, the overall total of this second census reaches 601,730 men — a number quite close to that of the first census, even though an entire generation had died along the way.
  52. Números 26:52The LORD speaks to Moses once more, now to explain how the promised land would be divided based on this new census.
  53. Números 26:53The instruction is that the land be divided as an inheritance according to the number of people in each group.
  54. Números 26:54Larger tribes would receive a larger portion of land, and smaller tribes a smaller portion, all proportional to the size of each one.
  55. Números 26:55Even so, exactly which area each tribe would receive would be decided by lot, using the names of the tribes as the reference.
  56. Números 26:56The lot would determine the exact location, but the size of the portion would still be adjusted according to the number of people in each tribe.
  57. Números 26:57The text then goes on to count the Levites separately, organized by the three clans already known: Gershonites, Kohathites, and Merarites.
  58. Números 26:58Among the Levites, still other specific families appear: Libnites, Hebronites, Mahlites, Mushites, and Korathites; and it is from this line, through Kohath, that Amram comes.
  59. Números 26:59Amram’s wife was named Jochebed, born to Levi back in Egypt; she was the one who gave birth to Aaron, Moses, and their sister Miriam.
  60. Números 26:60Nadab and Abihu would die young, offering fire that God had not authorized; only Eleazar and Ithamar would continue in the priesthood — and it is from Eleazar’s line that the future high priests would come.
  61. Números 26:61But, as already told earlier, Nadab and Abihu died offering unauthorized fire before the LORD.
  62. Números 26:62The total number of Levites counted reaches 23,000, all males from one month old and up — they are left out of the general count of Israel because they did not receive an inheritance of land like the other tribes.
  63. Números 26:63These are the numbers gathered by Moses and Eleazar in this second census, taken already in the plains of Moab, near the Jordan.
  64. Números 26:64In this second census, taken decades after the first, the text notes that none of the men counted the first time, in the wilderness of Sinai, were still alive — except Caleb and Joshua. It is the practical confirmation that the generation that rebelled and was afraid to enter Canaan really did die in the wilderness, just as had been said in chapter 14.
  65. Números 26:65This is confirmed exactly as the LORD had said: no one from that older generation survived, except Caleb and Joshua, the two spies who disagreed with the fearful report decades before.

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