Numbers 26:1-3

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

A Census of the New Generation

26 After the plague the Lord said to Moses and to Eleazar son of Aaron the priest, ² ‘Take a census of the whole congregation of the Israelites, from twenty years old and upwards, by their ancestral houses, everyone in Israel able to go to war.’ ³ Moses and Eleazar the priest spoke with them in the plains of Moab by the Jordan opposite Jericho, saying,