Numbers 26:2

Let all the children of Israel be numbered, by the names of their fathers' families, all those of twenty years old and over who are able to go to war in Israel.

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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

1Now after the disease was over, the Lord said to Moses and Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest,

3So Moses and Eleazar the priest gave them the order in the lowlands of Moab by Jordan at Jericho, saying,

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Cross References

Exodus 30:11And the Lord said to Moses,

Numbers 1:2Take the full number of the children of Israel, by their families, and by their fathers' houses, every male by name;

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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