Numbers 26:2

“Take a census of the whole congregation of Israel by the houses of their fathers—all those twenty years of age or older who can serve in the army of Israel.”

Majority Standard Bible

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

1After the plague had ended, the LORD said to Moses and Eleazar son of Aaron the priest,

3So on the plains of Moab by the Jordan, across from Jericho, Moses and Eleazar the priest issued the instruction,

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Cross References

Exodus 30:11Then the LORD said to Moses,

Numbers 1:2“Take a census of the whole congregation of Israel by their clans and families, listing every man by name, one by one.

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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