Numbers 26:57-62

Numbers 26:57-62

[57] And these are they that were numbered  of the Levites  after their families:  of Gershon,  the family  of the Gershonites:  of Kohath,  the family  of the Kohathites:  of Merari,  the family  of the Merarites.  [58] These are the families  of the Levites:  the family  of the Libnites,  the family  of the Hebronites,  the family  of the Mahlites,  the family  of the Mushites,  the family  of the Korathites.  And Kohath  begat  Amram.  [59] And the name  of Amram's  wife  was Jochebed,  the daughter  of Levi,  whom her mother bare  to Levi  in Egypt:  and she bare  unto Amram  Aaron  and Moses,  and Miriam  their sister.  [60] And unto Aaron  was born  Nadab,  and Abihu,  Eleazar,  and Ithamar.  [61] And Nadab  and Abihu  died,  when they offered  strange  fire  before  the LORD.  [62] 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 children  of Israel,  because there was no inheritance  given  them among  the children  of Israel. 

What does Numbers 26:57-62 Mean?

Contextual Meaning

Here Moses recorded the census of the Levites. Moses and Aaron were Kohathites ( Exodus 6:18-20). Their parents" names were Amram and Jochebed ( Numbers 26:59).