53. `To these is the land apportioned by inheritance, by the number of names;
54. to the many thou dost increase their inheritance, and to the few thou dost diminish their inheritance; [to] each according to his numbered ones is given his inheritance.
55. `Only by lot is the land apportioned, by the names of the tribes of their fathers they inherit;
56. according to the lot is their inheritance apportioned between many and few.'
57. And these [are] numbered ones of the Levite by their families: of Gershon [is] the family of the Gershonite; of Kohath the family of the Kohathite; of Merari the family of the Merarite.
58. These [are] families of the Levite: the family of the Libnite, the family of the Hebronite, the family of the Mahlite, the family of the Mushite, the family of the Korathite. And Kohath hath begotten Amram,