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Moses counts the people again[a]

26 When the bad disease stopped killing people, the Lord spoke to Moses and to Eleazar, the son of Aaron. He said, ‘Count all the Israelites, clan by clan. Count all the men who are 20 years old or older. Count only those men who can fight in the army.’

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Footnotes

  1. 26:1 The Book of Numbers began with a count of the people. See Numbers 1:2-3. This second count happened 40 years later.

The Second Census

26 After the plague(A) the Lord said to Moses and Eleazar son of Aaron, the priest, “Take a census(B) of the whole Israelite community by families—all those twenty years old or more who are able to serve in the army(C) of Israel.”

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