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A New Census

26 [a] And it happened after the plague, [b]Yahweh said to Moses and to Eleazar son of Aaron the priest, saying, Take a census[c] of the community of the Israelites[d] from those twenty years old[e] and above, according to their families,[f] all who are able to go out to war in Israel.”

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 26:1 Numbers 26:1a in the English Bible is 25:19b in the Hebrew Bible
  2. Numbers 26:1 In the Hebrew Bible, Numbers 26:1 begins here
  3. Numbers 26:2 Literally “Lift up the heads
  4. Numbers 26:2 Literally “sons/children of Israel”
  5. Numbers 26:2 Literally “a son of twenty years”
  6. Numbers 26:2 Literally “the house of their fathers”