[Avodah] Two questions on Pinehas

[Zev Sero via Avodah]

On 28/07/16 16:55, Simon Montagu via Avodah wrote:
> Why is there no mention of Moshe's children in the lists of the
> Levite families?

They and their children were too few to constitute a mishpacha on
their own, so they were just subsumed into the general family of Kehos,
just as the descendants of Bela`'s children other than Ard and Na`amon
were counted as the Bela` family, and the descendants of Mochir other
than Gil`od  were couned as the Machir family.  They could also have
been subsumed into one of the other Kehosi subfamilies, just as the
descendants of any children Yosef had after Yaa`cov's passing would be
counted in the tribe of Efrayim or Menashe.

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