Numbers 26:1-4

Census of the New Generation

1 aAfter the plague, the Lord said to Moses and to Eleazar the son of Aaron, the priest, 2 bTake a census of all the congregation of the people of Israel, from twenty years old and upward, by their fathershouses, all in Israel who are able to go to war.” 3And Moses and Eleazar the priest spoke with them cin the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho, saying, 4“Take a census of the people,
Take a census of the people is implied (compare verse 2)
from twenty years old and upward,” as the Lord ecommanded Moses. The people of Israel who came out of the land of Egypt were:

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