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Tanach: Numbers (Bemidbar): Numbers (Bemidbar) Chapter 26

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This is Numbers 26 from the Hebrew Bible, presented in the original Hebrew text alongside a scholarly transliteration (romanized phonetic rendering). The chapter records the second census of the Israelite tribes, conducted by Moses and the priest Eleazar on the plains of Moab as the Israelites prepare to enter Canaan — a parallel to the earlier census in Numbers 1. Each of the twelve tribes is enumerated by clan, with the total of all fighting men aged twenty and above reaching 601,730. A distinctive feature is the embedded legal principle that land inheritance in Canaan will be allocated proportionally to each tribe's population, determined by lot. The chapter also includes the census of the Levites (counted separately, from one month old, at 23,000) and closes with the pointed observation that none of those counted in the original Sinai census survived — fulfilling the divine judgment that the wilderness generation would die out — with only Caleb and Joshua excepted.

Tanach: Numbers (Bemidbar): Numbers (Bemidbar) Chapter 26

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