Numbers 26:4

from twenty years old and upward, as LORD commanded Moses and the sons of Israel, who came forth out of the land of Egypt.

A Conservative Version

In The King James Version

Take the sum of the people, from twenty years old and upward; as the LORD commanded Moses and the children of Israel, which went forth out of the land of Egypt.

In Context

3And Moses and Eleazar the priest spoke with them in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho, saying,

5Reuben, the first-born of Israel. The sons of Reuben: [of] Hanoch, the family of the Hanochites; of Pallu, the family of the Palluites;

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Cross References

Exodus 12:51And it came to pass the selfsame day, that LORD brought the sons of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their armies.

1 Chronicles 21:1And Satan stood up against Israel, and moved David to number Israel.

Matthew Henry on Numbers 26:2-5

The Numbering of the People. ( b. c. 1452.) 1 And it came to pass after the plague, that the Lord spake unto Moses and unto Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, saying, 2 Take the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel, from twenty years old and upward, throughout their fathers' house, all that are able to go to war in Israel. 3 And Moses and Eleazar the priest spake with them in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho, saying, 4 Take the sum of the people, from twenty years old and upward; as the… Read the whole commentary →

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