Numbers 26:1-3

New Catholic Bible

The Second Census and the Plan to Enter the Promised Land

Chapter 26

The Second Census. ¹ After the plague, the Lord spoke to Moses and to Eleazar, the priest, saying, ² “Take a census of the whole assembly of the people of Israel by their father’s house, those twenty years and older, all of those who are fit to bear arms.”

³ Moses and Eleazar spoke with them in the plain of Moab near the Jordan, across from Jericho, saying,