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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.
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John Wesley's Notes
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Numbers 26:2

Take the sum - They were numbered twice before, Exodus 30:11-12; Numbers 1:1-2. Now they are numbered a third time, to demonstrate the faithfulness of God, both in cutting all those off whom he had threatened to cut off, Numbers 14:29, and in a stupendous increase of the people according to his promise, notwithstanding all their sins, and the sweeping judgments inflicted upon them; and to prepare the way for the equal division of the land, which they were now going to possess.


 
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