Lexham English Bible

Numbers 26:1-5 Lexham English Bible (LEB)

1. And it happened after the plague, Yahweh said to Moses and to Eleazar son of Aaron the priest, saying,

2. “Take a census of the community of the Israelites from those twenty years old and above, according to their families, all who are able to go out to war in Israel.”

3. So Moses and Eleazar the priest spoke with them on the desert-plateau of Moab by the Jordan across from Jericho, saying,

4. “Take a census of the community from those twenty years old and above, just as Yahweh commanded Moses.” The Israelites who went out from the land of Egypt were:

5. Reuben, the firstborn of Israel, the descendants of Reuben: of Hanoch, the clan of the Hanochites; of Pallu, the clan of the Palluites;