All the animals and all the creatures that move along the ground and all the birds – everything that moves on land – came out of the ark, one kind after another.

Every beast, every creeping thing, and every bird, everything that moves on the earth, went out by families from the ark.

(From these the maritime peoples spread out into their territories by their clans within their nations, each with its own language.)

From these the coastland peoples spread in their lands, each with his own language, by their clans, in their nations.

Arvadites, Zemarites and Hamathites.

Later the Canaanite clans scattered

the Arvadites, the Zemarites, and the Hamathites. Afterward the clans of the Canaanites dispersed.

These are the sons of Ham by their clans and languages, in their territories and nations.

These are the sons of Ham, by their clans, their languages, their lands, and their nations.

These are the sons of Shem by their clans and languages, in their territories and nations.

These are the sons of Shem, by their clans, their languages, their lands, and their nations.

These are the clans of Noah’s sons, according to their lines of descent, within their nations. From these the nations spread out over the earth after the flood.

These are the clans of the sons of Noah, according to their genealogies, in their nations and from these the nations spread abroad on the earth after the flood.

I will bless those who bless you,
and whoever curses you I will curse;
and all peoples on earth
will be blessed through you.’

I will bless those who bless you, and him who dishonors you I will curse, and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.”

but go to my father’s family and to my own clan, and get a wife for my son.”

but you shall go to my father’s house and to my clan and take a wife for my son.’

‘He replied, “The Lord, before whom I have walked faithfully, will send his angel with you and make your journey a success, so that you can get a wife for my son from my own clan and from my father’s family.

But he said to me, ‘The Lord, before whom I have walked, will send his angel with you and prosper your way. You shall take a wife for my son from my clan and from my father’s house.

You will be released from my oath if, when you go to my clan, they refuse to give her to you – then you will be released from my oath.’

Then you will be free from my oath, when you come to my clan. And if they will not give her to you, you will be free from my oath.’

Your descendants will be like the dust of the earth, and you will spread out to the west and to the east, to the north and to the south. All peoples on earth will be blessed through you and your offspring.

Your offspring shall be like the dust of the earth, and you shall spread abroad to the west and to the east and to the north and to the south, and in you and your offspring shall all the families of the earth be blessed.

These were the chiefs descended from Esau, by name, according to their clans and regions:
Timna, Alvah, Jetheth,

These are the names of the chiefs of Esau, according to their clans and their dwelling places, by their names: the chiefs Timna, Alvah, Jetheth,

These were the heads of their families:

The sons of Reuben the firstborn son of Israel were Hanok and Pallu, Hezron and Karmi. These were the clans of Reuben.

These are the heads of their fathers’ houses: the sons of Reuben, the firstborn of Israel: Hanoch, Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi; these are the clans of Reuben.

The sons of Simeon were Jemuel, Jamin, Ohad, Jakin, Zohar and Shaul the son of a Canaanite woman. These were the clans of Simeon.

The sons of Simeon: Jemuel, Jamin, Ohad, Jachin, Zohar, and Shaul, the son of a Canaanite woman; these are the clans of Simeon.

The sons of Gershon, by clans, were Libni and Shimei.

The sons of Gershon: Libni and Shimei, by their clans.

The sons of Merari were Mahli and Mushi.

These were the clans of Levi according to their records.

The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. These are the clans of the Levites according to their generations.

The sons of Korah were Assir, Elkanah and Abiasaph. These were the Korahite clans.

The sons of Korah: Assir, Elkanah, and Abiasaph; these are the clans of the Korahites.

Eleazar son of Aaron married one of the daughters of Putiel, and she bore him Phinehas.

These were the heads of the Levite families, clan by clan.

Eleazar, Aaron’s son, took as his wife one of the daughters of Putiel, and she bore him Phinehas. These are the heads of the fathers’ houses of the Levites by their clans.

Then Moses summoned all the elders of Israel and said to them, ‘Go at once and select the animals for your families and slaughter the Passover lamb.

Then Moses called all the elders of Israel and said to them, “Go and select lambs for yourselves according to your clans, and kill the Passover lamb.

I myself will set my face against him and his family and will cut them off from their people together with all who follow him in prostituting themselves to Molek.

then I will set my face against that man and against his clan and will cut them off from among their people, him and all who follow him in whoring after Molech.

Consecrate the fiftieth year and proclaim liberty throughout the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a jubilee for you; each of you is to return to your family property and to your own clan.

And you shall consecrate the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a jubilee for you, when each of you shall return to his property and each of you shall return to his clan.

Then they and their children are to be released, and they will go back to their own clans and to the property of their ancestors.

Then he shall go out from you, he and his children with him, and go back to his own clan and return to the possession of his fathers.

You may also buy some of the temporary residents living among you and members of their clans born in your country, and they will become your property.

You may also buy from among the strangers who sojourn with you and their clans that are with you, who have been born in your land, and they may be your property.

‘“If a foreigner residing among you becomes rich and any of your fellow Israelites become poor and sell themselves to the foreigner or to a member of the foreigner’s clan,

“If a stranger or sojourner with you becomes rich, and your brother beside him becomes poor and sells himself to the stranger or sojourner with you or to a member of the stranger’s clan,

an uncle or a cousin or any blood-relative in their clan may redeem them. Or if they prosper, they may redeem themselves.

or his uncle or his cousin may redeem him, or a close relative from his clan may redeem him. Or if he grows rich he may redeem himself.

‘Take a census of the whole Israelite community by their clans and families, listing every man by name, one by one.

“Take a census of all the congregation of the people of Israel, by clans by fathers’ houses, according to the number of names, every male, head by head.

and they called the whole community together on the first day of the second month. The people registered their ancestry by their clans and families, and the men twenty years old or more were listed by name, one by one,

and on the first day of the second month, they assembled the whole congregation together, who registered themselves by clans, by fathers’ houses, according to the number of names from twenty years old and upward, head by head,

From the descendants of Reuben the firstborn son of Israel:
All the men twenty years old or more who were able to serve in the army were listed by name, one by one, according to the records of their clans and families.

The people of Reuben, Israel’s firstborn, their generations, by their clans, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of names, head by head, every male from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go to war:

From the descendants of Simeon:
All the men twenty years old or more who were able to serve in the army were counted and listed by name, one by one, according to the records of their clans and families.

Of the people of Simeon, their generations, by their clans, by their fathers’ houses, those of them who were listed, according to the number of names, head by head, every male from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go to war:

From the descendants of Gad:
All the men twenty years old or more who were able to serve in the army were listed by name, according to the records of their clans and families.

Of the people of Gad, their generations, by their clans, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go to war:

From the descendants of Judah:
All the men twenty years old or more who were able to serve in the army were listed by name, according to the records of their clans and families.

Of the people of Judah, their generations, by their clans, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, every man able to go to war:

From the descendants of Issachar:
All the men twenty years old or more who were able to serve in the army were listed by name, according to the records of their clans and families.

Of the people of Issachar, their generations, by their clans, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, every man able to go to war:

From the descendants of Zebulun:
All the men twenty years old or more who were able to serve in the army were listed by name, according to the records of their clans and families.

Of the people of Zebulun, their generations, by their clans, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, every man able to go to war:

From the sons of Joseph:
From the descendants of Ephraim:
All the men twenty years old or more who were able to serve in the army were listed by name, according to the records of their clans and families.

Of the people of Joseph, namely, of the people of Ephraim, their generations, by their clans, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, every man able to go to war:

From the descendants of Manasseh:
All the men twenty years old or more who were able to serve in the army were listed by name, according to the records of their clans and families.

Of the people of Manasseh, their generations, by their clans, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, every man able to go to war:

From the descendants of Benjamin:
All the men twenty years old or more who were able to serve in the army were listed by name, according to the records of their clans and families.

Of the people of Benjamin, their generations, by their clans, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, every man able to go to war:

From the descendants of Dan:
All the men twenty years old or more who were able to serve in the army were listed by name, according to the records of their clans and families.

Of the people of Dan, their generations, by their clans, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, every man able to go to war:

From the descendants of Asher:
All the men twenty years old or more who were able to serve in the army were listed by name, according to the records of their clans and families.

Of the people of Asher, their generations, by their clans, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, every man able to go to war:

From the descendants of Naphtali:
All the men twenty years old or more who were able to serve in the army were listed by name, according to the records of their clans and families.

Of the people of Naphtali, their generations, by their clans, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, every man able to go to war:

So the Israelites did everything the Lord commanded Moses; that is the way they camped under their standards, and that is the way they set out, each of them with their clan and family.

Thus did the people of Israel. According to all that the Lord commanded Moses, so they camped by their standards, and so they set out, each one in his clan, according to his fathers’ house.

‘Count the Levites by their families and clans. Count every male a month old or more.’

“List the sons of Levi, by fathers’ houses and by clans; every male from a month old and upward you shall list.”

These were the names of the Gershonite clans:
Libni and Shimei.

And these are the names of the sons of Gershon by their clans: Libni and Shimei.

The Kohathite clans:
Amram, Izhar, Hebron and Uzziel.

And the sons of Kohath by their clans: Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel.

The Merarite clans:
Mahli and Mushi.

These were the Levite clans, according to their families.

And the sons of Merari by their clans: Mahli and Mushi. These are the clans of the Levites, by their fathers’ houses.

To Gershon belonged the clans of the Libnites and Shimeites; these were the Gershonite clans.

To Gershon belonged the clan of the Libnites and the clan of the Shimeites; these were the clans of the Gershonites.

The Gershonite clans were to camp on the west, behind the tabernacle.

The clans of the Gershonites were to camp behind the tabernacle on the west,

To Kohath belonged the clans of the Amramites, Izharites, Hebronites and Uzzielites; these were the Kohathite clans.

To Kohath belonged the clan of the Amramites and the clan of the Izharites and the clan of the Hebronites and the clan of the Uzzielites; these are the clans of the Kohathites.

The Kohathite clans were to camp on the south side of the tabernacle.

The clans of the sons of Kohath were to camp on the south side of the tabernacle,

The leader of the families of the Kohathite clans was Elizaphan son of Uzziel.

with Elizaphan the son of Uzziel as chief of the fathers’ house of the clans of the Kohathites.

To Merari belonged the clans of the Mahlites and the Mushites; these were the Merarite clans.

To Merari belonged the clan of the Mahlites and the clan of the Mushites: these are the clans of Merari.

The leader of the families of the Merarite clans was Zuriel son of Abihail; they were to camp on the north side of the tabernacle.

And the chief of the fathers’ house of the clans of Merari was Zuriel the son of Abihail. They were to camp on the north side of the tabernacle.

The total number of Levites counted at the Lord’s command by Moses and Aaron according to their clans, including every male a month old or more, was 22,000.

All those listed among the Levites, whom Moses and Aaron listed at the commandment of the Lord, by clans, all the males from a month old and upward, were 22,000.

‘Take a census of the Kohathite branch of the Levites by their clans and families.

“Take a census of the sons of Kohath from among the sons of Levi, by their clans and their fathers’ houses,

‘See that the Kohathite tribal clans are not destroyed from among the Levites.

“Let not the tribe of the clans of the Kohathites be destroyed from among the Levites,

‘Take a census also of the Gershonites by their families and clans.

“Take a census of the sons of Gershon also, by their fathers’ houses and by their clans.

‘This is the service of the Gershonite clans in their carrying and their other work:

This is the service of the clans of the Gershonites, in serving and bearing burdens:

This is the service of the Gershonite clans at the tent of meeting. Their duties are to be under the direction of Ithamar son of Aaron, the priest.

This is the service of the clans of the sons of the Gershonites in the tent of meeting, and their guard duty is to be under the direction of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.

‘Count the Merarites by their clans and families.

“As for the sons of Merari, you shall list them by their clans and their fathers’ houses.

This is the service of the Merarite clans as they work at the tent of meeting under the direction of Ithamar son of Aaron, the priest.’

This is the service of the clans of the sons of Merari, the whole of their service in the tent of meeting under the direction of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.”

Moses, Aaron and the leaders of the community counted the Kohathites by their clans and families.

And Moses and Aaron and the chiefs of the congregation listed the sons of the Kohathites, by their clans and their fathers’ houses,