'Families' in the Bible
And ye shall be brought near in the morning according to your tribes; and it shall be, that the tribe which Jehovah taketh shall come forward by families, and the family which Jehovah taketh shall come forward by households; and the household which Jehovah taketh shall come forward man by man.
And he caused the families of Judah to come forward, and he took the family of the Zarhites. And he caused the family of the Zarhites to come forward man by man, and Zabdi was taken.
And Moses gave a portion to the tribe of the children of Reuben according to their families.
And the border of the children of Reuben was the Jordan, and its border. This is the inheritance of the children of Reuben according to their families, the cities and their hamlets.
And Moses gave a portion to the tribe of Gad, to the children of Gad according to their families.
This is the inheritance of the children of Gad according to their families, the cities and their hamlets.
And Moses gave a portion to half the tribe of Manasseh; and for half the tribe of the children of Manasseh according to their families:
And half Gilead, and Ashtaroth, and Edrei, the cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan, belonged to the children of Machir the son of Manasseh, to the one half of the children of Machir according to their families.
And the lot of the tribe of the children of Judah according to their families was: to the border of Edom, the wilderness of Zin, southward, in the extreme south.
And the west border is the great sea and its coast. This is the border of the children of Judah round about, according to their families.
This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Judah according to their families.
And the border of the children of Ephraim was according to their families; the border of their inheritance eastwards was Ataroth-Addar as far as the upper Beth-horon;
From Tappuah the border went westwards to the torrent Kanah, and ended at the sea. This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Ephraim according to their families,
There was also a portion for the rest of the children of Manasseh according to their families: for the children of Abiezer, and for the children of Helek, and for the children of Asriel, and for the children of Shechem, and for the children of Hepher, and for the children of Shemida: these are the children of Manasseh, the son of Joseph, the males, according to their families.
And the lot of the tribe of the children of Benjamin came up according to their families. And the territory of their lot came forth between the children of Judah and the children of Joseph.
And the Jordan borders it on the east side. This was the inheritance of the children of Benjamin, according to its borders round about, according to their families.
And the cities of the tribe of the children of Benjamin according to their families were: Jericho, and Beth-hoglah, and Emek-Keziz,
and Zelah, Eleph, and Jebusi, that is, Jerusalem, Gibeah, Kirjath: fourteen cities and their hamlets. This was the inheritance of the children of Benjamin according to their families.
And the second lot came forth to Simeon, for the tribe of the children of Simeon according to their families; and their inheritance was within the inheritance of the children of Judah.
and all the hamlets that are round these cities to Baalath-beer, that is Ramah of the south. This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Simeon according to their families.
And the third lot came up for the children of Zebulun according to their families. And the border of their inheritance was unto Sarid;
This was the inheritance of the children of Zebulun according to their families, these cities and their hamlets.
The fourth lot came forth to Issachar, for the children of Issachar according to their families.
This was the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Issachar according to their families, the cities and their hamlets.
And the fifth lot came forth for the tribe of the children of Asher according to their families.
This was the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Asher according to their families, these cities and their hamlets.
The sixth lot came forth to the children of Naphtali, for the children of Naphtali according to their families.
This was the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Naphtali according to their families, the cities and their hamlets.
The seventh lot came forth for the tribe of the children of Dan according to their families.
This was the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Dan according to their families, these cities and their hamlets.
And the lot came forth for the families of the Kohathites. And the children of Aaron the priest, of the Levites, had by lot out of the tribe of Judah, and out of the tribe of the Simeonites, and out of the tribe of Benjamin, thirteen cities.
And the children of Kohath that remained had by lot out of the families of the tribe of Ephraim, and out of the tribe of Dan, and out of the half tribe of Manasseh, ten cities.
And the children of Gershon had by lot out of the families of the tribe of Issachar, and out of the tribe of Asher, and out of the tribe of Naphtali, and out of the half tribe of Manasseh in Bashan, thirteen cities.
The children of Merari according to their families had by lot out of the tribe of Reuben, and out of the tribe of Gad, and out of the tribe of Zebulun, twelve cities.
and which the children of Aaron, of the families of the Kohathites, of the children of Levi had (for theirs was the first lot);
And to the families of the children of Kohath, the Levites that remained of the children of Kohath, they gave cities. And the cities of their lot were out of the tribe of Ephraim,
All the cities were ten and their suburbs, for the families of the children of Kohath that remained.
And to the children of Gershon, of the families of the Levites, out of half the tribe of Manasseh, they gave the city of refuge for the slayer, Golan in Bashan and its suburbs; and Beeshterah and its suburbs: two cities;
All the cities of the Gershonites according to their families were thirteen cities and their suburbs.
And to the families of the children of Merari, that remained of the Levites, they gave out of the tribe of Zebulun, Jokneam and its suburbs, Kartah and its suburbs,
These were all the cities of the children of Merari according to their families, which remained of the families of the Levites, and their lot was twelve cities.