Numbers 26:1

(25-19) And it came to pass after the plague, (26-1) that the LORD spoke unto Moses and unto Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, saying:

JPS TaNaKH 1917

In The King James Version

And it came to pass after the plague, that the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, saying,

In Context

2'Take the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel, from twenty years old and upward, by their fathers' houses, all that are able to go forth to war in Israel.'

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Cross References

Numbers 1:19As the LORD commanded Moses, so did he number them in the wilderness of Sinai.

Matthew Henry on Numbers 26:1

This book is called Numbers, from the numberings of the children of Israel, of which it gives an account. Once they were numbered at Mount Sinai, in the first year after they came out of Egypt, which we had an account of, ch. i. and ii. . And now a second time they were numbered in the plains of Moab, just before they entered Canaan, and of this we have an account in this chapter. We have, I. Orders given for the doing of it, ver. 1-4 . II. A register of the families and numbers of each tribe ( ver. 5-50 ), and… Read the whole commentary →

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