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The Second Census of Israel

1 And it came to pass, after the aplague, that the Lord spoke to Moses and Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, saying:  
2 a“Take a census of all the congregation of the children of Israel bfrom twenty years old and above, by their fathers’ houses, all who are able to go to war in Israel.”  
3 So Moses and Eleazar the priest spoke with them ain the plains of Moab by the Jordan, across from Jericho, saying:  
4 “Take a census of the people from twenty years old and above, just as the Lord acommanded Moses and the children of Israel who came out of the land of Egypt.”  
5 aReuben was the firstborn of Israel. The children of Reuben were: of Hanoch, the family of the Hanochites; of Pallu, the family of the Palluites;  
6 of Hezron, the family of the Hezronites; of Carmi, the family of the Carmites.
Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
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Numbers 26:2

Take the sum of all the congregation—The design of this new census, after a lapse of thirty-eight years, was primarily to establish the vast multiplication of the posterity of Abraham in spite of the severe judgments inflicted upon them; secondarily, it was to preserve the distinction of families and to make arrangements, preparatory to an entrance into the promised land, for the distribution of the country according to the relative population of the tribes.


 
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