Numbers 26:1

And it comes to pass, after the plague, that YHWH speaks to Moses and to Eleazar son of Aaron the priest, saying,

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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 a census of all the congregation of the sons of Israel, from a son of twenty years and upward, by the house of their fathers, everyone going out to the host in Israel.”

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Cross References

Numbers 1:19as YHWH has commanded Moses; and he numbers 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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