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The people of Israel who came out of the land of Egypt were:<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/bsb/numbers/26.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a></span><br />“Take a census of the men twenty years of age or older, as the LORD has commanded Moses.” And these were the Israelites who came out of the land of Egypt:<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/kjv/numbers/26.htm">King James Bible</a></span><br /><i>Take the sum of the people</i>, from twenty years old and upward; as the LORD commanded Moses and the children of Israel, which went forth out of the land of Egypt.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nkjv/numbers/26.htm">New King James Version</a></span><br />“<i>Take a census of the people</i> from twenty years old and above, just as the LORD commanded Moses and the children of Israel who came out of the land of Egypt.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb_/numbers/26.htm">New American Standard Bible</a></span><br />“<i>Take a census of the people</i> from twenty years old and upward, as the LORD has commanded Moses.” Now the sons of Israel who came out of the land of Egypt <i>were as follows:</i><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb/numbers/26.htm">NASB 1995</a></span><br />&#8220Take a census of the people from twenty years old and upward, as the LORD has commanded Moses.&#8221 Now the sons of Israel who came out of the land of Egypt were:<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb77/numbers/26.htm">NASB 1977 </a></span><br />“<i>Take a census of the people</i> from twenty years old and upward, as the LORD has commanded Moses.” Now the sons of Israel who came out of the land of Egypt <i>were:</i><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsb/numbers/26.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a></span><br />“<i>Take a census of the people</i> from twenty years old and upward, as Yahweh has commanded Moses.” Now the sons of Israel who came out of the land of Egypt <i>were</i>:<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/amp/numbers/26.htm">Amplified Bible</a></span><br />“<i>A census of the people shall be taken</i> from twenty years old and upward, just as the LORD has commanded Moses.” Now the Israelites who came out of the land of Egypt were:<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/csb/numbers/26.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />“Take a census of those twenty years old or more, as the LORD had commanded Moses and the Israelites who came out of the land of Egypt.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hcsb/numbers/26.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />Take a census of those 20 years old or more, as the LORD had commanded Moses and the Israelites who came out of the land of Egypt.&#8221 <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/numbers/26.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />Take the sum of the people, from twenty years old and upward; as Jehovah commanded Moses and the children of Israel, that came forth out of the land of Egypt.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cev/numbers/26.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />what the LORD had said about counting the men 20 years and older, just as Moses and their ancestors had done when they left Egypt. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/numbers/26.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />Take the sum of the people, from twenty years old and upward; as the LORD commanded Moses and the children of Israel, which came forth out of the land of Egypt.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gwt/numbers/26.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a></span><br />"Take a census of those at least 20 years old, as the LORD commanded Moses." These are the Israelites who came from Egypt:<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/isv/numbers/26.htm">International Standard Version</a></span><br />They counted every male Israeli who had come out of Egypt and who was 20 years old and above, just as the LORD had commanded Moses.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/msb/numbers/26.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a></span><br />?Take a census of the men twenty years of age or older, as the LORD has commanded Moses.? And these were the Israelites who came out of the land of Egypt:<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/net/numbers/26.htm">NET Bible</a></span><br />"Number the people from twenty years old and upward, just as the LORD commanded Moses and the Israelites who went out from the land of Egypt." <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nheb/numbers/26.htm">New Heart English Bible</a></span><br />"Take a census, from twenty years old and upward; as the LORD commanded Moses and the children of Israel." These are those that came out of the land of Egypt.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/numbers/26.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />Take the sum of the people, from twenty years old and upward; as the LORD commanded Moses and the children of Israel, who went forth from the land of Egypt.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/numbers/26.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />“Take a census, from twenty years old and upward, as Yahweh commanded Moses and the children of Israel.” These are those who came out of the land of Egypt. <div class="vheading2"><b>Literal Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsv/numbers/26.htm">Literal Standard Version</a></span><br />“From a son of twenty years and upward,” as YHWH has commanded Moses and the sons of Israel who are coming out from the land of Egypt.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/numbers/26.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> 'From a son of twenty years and upward,' as Jehovah hath commanded Moses and the sons of Israel who are coming out from the land of Egypt.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/slt/numbers/26.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a></span><br />From the son of twenty years and above, as Jehovah commanded Moses and the sons of Israel going forth out of the land of Egypt.<div class="vheading2"><b>Catholic Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/numbers/26.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />From twenty years old and upward, as the Lord had commanded: and this is the number of them: <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cpdv/numbers/26.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a></span><br />from twenty years and above, just as the Lord had commanded. And this is their number:<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/numbers/26.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />those of twenty years or more, as the LORD had commanded Moses. The Israelites who came out of the land of Egypt were as follows:<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/numbers/26.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />“Take a census of the people, from twenty years old and upward,” as the LORD commanded Moses. The Israelites, who came out of the land of Egypt, were:<div class="vheading2"><b>Translations from Aramaic</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lamsa/numbers/26.htm">Lamsa Bible</a></span><br />And Moses numbered them from twenty years old and upward, as the LORD commanded Moses and the children of Israel who went forth out of the land of Egypt.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hpbt/numbers/26.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a></span><br />And Moshe numbered them, from a son of twenty years and above, as LORD JEHOVAH commanded Moshe and the children of Israel who went out from the land of Egypt.<div class="vheading2"><b>OT Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/jps/numbers/26.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a></span><br />[Take the sum of the people,] from twenty years old and upward, as the LORD commanded Moses and the children of Israel, that came forth out of the land of Egypt.'<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/sep/numbers/26.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a></span><br /><i>This is the numbering</i> from twenty years old and upward as the Lord commanded Moses. And the sons of Israel that came out of Egypt <i>are as follows</i>:<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/parallel/numbers/26-4.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></span></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv"><b>Audio Bible</b></div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/yauBFvKLNNo?start=7900" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/bsb/numbers/26.htm">The Second Census of Israel</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">3</span>So on the plains of Moab by the Jordan, across from Jericho, Moses and Eleazar the priest issued the instruction, <span class="reftext">4</span><span class="highl"><a href="/hebrew/6242.htm" title="6242: ‘eś·rîm (Number-cp) -- Twenty. From eser; twenty; also twentieth.">“Take a census of the men twenty</a> <a href="/hebrew/1121.htm" title="1121: mib·ben (Prep-m:: N-msc) -- Son. From banah; a son, in the widest sense (like 'ab, 'ach, etc.).">years of age</a> <a href="/hebrew/8141.htm" title="8141: šā·nāh (N-fs) -- A year. (in plura or shanah; from shanah; a year."></a> <a href="/hebrew/4605.htm" title="4605: wā·mā·‘ə·lāh (Conj-w:: Adv:: 3fs) -- From alah; properly, the upper part, used only adverbially with prefix upward, above, overhead, from the top, etc.">or older,</a> <a href="/hebrew/834.htm" title="834: ka·’ă·šer (Prep-k:: Pro-r) -- Who, which, that. A primitive relative pronoun; who, which, what, that; also when, where, how, because, in order that, etc.">as</a> <a href="/hebrew/3068.htm" title="3068: Yah·weh (N-proper-ms) -- The proper name of the God of Israel. From hayah; self-Existent or Eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God.">the LORD</a> <a href="/hebrew/853.htm" title="853: ’eṯ- (DirObjM) -- Apparent contracted from 'owth in the demonstrative sense of entity; properly, self."></a> <a href="/hebrew/6680.htm" title="6680: ṣiw·wāh (V-Piel-Perf-3ms) -- To lay charge (upon), give charge (to), command, order. A primitive root; to constitute, enjoin.">has commanded</a> <a href="/hebrew/4872.htm" title="4872: mō·šeh (N-proper-ms) -- A great Isr. leader, prophet and lawgiver. From mashah; drawing out, i.e. Rescued; Mosheh, the Israelite lawgiver.">Moses.”</a> <a href="/hebrew/1121.htm" title="1121: ū·ḇə·nê (Conj-w:: N-mpc) -- Son. From banah; a son, in the widest sense (like 'ab, 'ach, etc.).">And these were the Israelites</a> <a href="/hebrew/3478.htm" title="3478: yiś·rā·’êl (N-proper-ms) -- From sarah and 'el; he will rule as God; Jisrael, a symbolical name of Jacob; also of his posterity."></a> <a href="/hebrew/3318.htm" title="3318: hay·yō·ṣə·’îm (Art:: V-Qal-Prtcpl-mp) -- A primitive root; to go out, in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively, direct and proxim.">who came out</a> <a href="/hebrew/776.htm" title="776: mê·’e·reṣ (Prep-m:: N-fsc) -- Earth, land. From an unused root probably meaning to be firm; the earth.">of the land</a> <a href="/hebrew/4714.htm" title="4714: miṣ·rā·yim (N-proper-fs) -- A son of Ham, also his desc. and their country in N.W. Africa. Dual of matsowr; Mitsrajim, i.e. Upper and Lower Egypt.">of Egypt:</a> </span><div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="/exodus/30-12.htm">Exodus 30:12</a></span><br />“When you take a census of the Israelites to number them, each man must pay the LORD a ransom for his life when he is counted. Then no plague will come upon them when they are numbered.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/numbers/1-2.htm">Numbers 1:2-3</a></span><br />“Take a census of the whole congregation of Israel by their clans and families, listing every man by name, one by one. / You and Aaron are to number those who are twenty years of age or older by their divisions—everyone who can serve in Israel’s army.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/numbers/1-18.htm">Numbers 1:18</a></span><br />and on the first day of the second month they assembled the whole congregation and recorded their ancestry by clans and families, counting one by one the names of those twenty years of age or older,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/numbers/3-15.htm">Numbers 3:15</a></span><br />“Number the Levites by their families and clans. You are to count every male a month old or more.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/numbers/14-29.htm">Numbers 14:29</a></span><br />Your bodies will fall in this wilderness—all who were numbered in the census, everyone twenty years of age or older—because you have grumbled against Me.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/numbers/32-11.htm">Numbers 32:11-12</a></span><br />‘Because they did not follow Me wholeheartedly, not one of the men twenty years of age or older who came out of Egypt will see the land that I swore to give Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob— / not one except Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite and Joshua son of Nun—because they did follow the LORD wholeheartedly.’<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/deuteronomy/1-35.htm">Deuteronomy 1:35-36</a></span><br />“Not one of the men of this evil generation shall see the good land I swore to give your fathers, / except Caleb son of Jephunneh. He will see it, and I will give him and his descendants the land on which he has set foot, because he followed the LORD wholeheartedly.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/deuteronomy/2-14.htm">Deuteronomy 2:14</a></span><br />The time we spent traveling from Kadesh-barnea until we crossed over the Brook of Zered was thirty-eight years, until that entire generation of fighting men had perished from the camp, as the LORD had sworn to them.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/joshua/5-6.htm">Joshua 5:6</a></span><br />For the Israelites had wandered in the wilderness forty years, until all the nation’s men of war who had come out of Egypt had died, since they did not obey the LORD. So the LORD vowed never to let them see the land He had sworn to their fathers to give us, a land flowing with milk and honey.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/1_chronicles/21-1.htm">1 Chronicles 21:1-2</a></span><br />Then Satan rose up against Israel and incited David to take a census of Israel. / So David said to Joab and the commanders of the troops, “Go and count the Israelites from Beersheba to Dan and bring me a report, so that I may know their number.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/2_samuel/24-1.htm">2 Samuel 24:1-2</a></span><br />Again the anger of the LORD burned against Israel, and He stirred up David against them, saying, “Go and take a census of Israel and Judah.” / So the king said to Joab the commander of his army, who was with him, “Go now throughout the tribes of Israel from Dan to Beersheba and register the troops, so that I may know their number.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/psalms/90-3.htm">Psalm 90:3-10</a></span><br />You return man to dust, saying, “Return, O sons of mortals.” / For in Your sight a thousand years are but a day that passes, or a watch of the night. / You sweep them away in their sleep; they are like the new grass of the morning— ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/40-6.htm">Isaiah 40:6-8</a></span><br />A voice says, “Cry out!” And I asked, “What should I cry out?” “All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flowers of the field. / The grass withers and the flowers fall when the breath of the LORD blows on them; indeed, the people are grass. / The grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of our God stands forever.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/matthew/1-1.htm">Matthew 1:1-17</a></span><br />This is the record of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham: / Abraham was the father of Isaac, Isaac the father of Jacob, and Jacob the father of Judah and his brothers. / Judah was the father of Perez and Zerah by Tamar, Perez the father of Hezron, and Hezron the father of Ram. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/matthew/22-32.htm">Matthew 22:32</a></span><br />‘I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’? He is not the God of the dead, but of the living.”</div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div><p class="tsk2">Take the sum of the people, from twenty years old and upward; as the LORD commanded Moses and the children of Israel, which went forth out of the land of Egypt.</p><p class="hdg">the eldest</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/genesis/29-32.htm">Genesis 29:32</a></b></br> And Leah conceived, and bare a son, and she called his name Reuben: for she said, Surely the LORD hath looked upon my affliction; now therefore my husband will love me.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/genesis/49-2.htm">Genesis 49:2,3</a></b></br> Gather yourselves together, and hear, ye sons of Jacob; and hearken unto Israel your father… </p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/1_chronicles/5-1.htm">1 Chronicles 5:1</a></b></br> Now the sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel, (for he <i>was</i> the firstborn; but, forasmuch as he defiled his father's bed, his birthright was given unto the sons of Joseph the son of Israel: and the genealogy is not to be reckoned after the birthright.</p><p class="hdg">thy children</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/genesis/46-8.htm">Genesis 46:8,9</a></b></br> And these <i>are</i> the names of the children of Israel, which came into Egypt, Jacob and his sons: Reuben, Jacob's firstborn… </p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/exodus/6-14.htm">Exodus 6:14</a></b></br> These <i>be</i> the heads of their fathers' houses: The sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel; Hanoch, and Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi: these <i>be</i> the families of Reuben.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/1_chronicles/5-3.htm">1 Chronicles 5:3</a></b></br> The sons, <i>I say</i>, of Reuben the firstborn of Israel <i>were</i>, Hanoch, and Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi.</p><div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/numbers/26-2.htm">Census</a> <a href="/numbers/26-2.htm">Children</a> <a href="/numbers/20-27.htm">Commanded</a> <a href="/numbers/24-8.htm">Egypt</a> <a href="/numbers/26-2.htm">Israel</a> <a href="/numbers/25-13.htm">Israelites</a> <a href="/numbers/26-1.htm">Moses</a> <a href="/numbers/26-2.htm">Numbered</a> <a href="/numbers/23-20.htm">Orders</a> <a href="/numbers/26-2.htm">Sum</a> <a href="/numbers/26-2.htm">Twenty</a> <a href="/numbers/26-2.htm">Upward</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/numbers/31-49.htm">Census</a> <a href="/numbers/26-5.htm">Children</a> <a href="/numbers/27-11.htm">Commanded</a> <a href="/numbers/26-59.htm">Egypt</a> <a href="/numbers/26-5.htm">Israel</a> <a href="/numbers/26-62.htm">Israelites</a> <a href="/numbers/26-9.htm">Moses</a> <a href="/numbers/26-7.htm">Numbered</a> <a href="/numbers/27-11.htm">Orders</a> <a href="/numbers/31-26.htm">Sum</a> <a href="/numbers/26-14.htm">Twenty</a> <a href="/numbers/26-62.htm">Upward</a><div class="vheading2">Numbers 26</div><span class="reftext">1. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/numbers/26-1.htm">The sum of all Israel is taken in the plains of Moab</a></span><br><span class="reftext">52. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/numbers/26-52.htm">The law of dividing among them the inheritance of the land</a></span><br><span class="reftext">57. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/numbers/26-57.htm">The families and number of the Levites</a></span><br><span class="reftext">63. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/numbers/26-63.htm">None but Caleb and Joshua was left of those who were numbered at Sinai</a></span><br></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; 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The age of twenty is significant as it marks the age of military service and responsibility in Israelite society. This census was not merely for counting but for preparing an army, as seen in earlier passages (<a href="/numbers/1-3.htm">Numbers 1:3</a>). It underscores the need for readiness and accountability among the people of God.<p><b>as the LORD has commanded Moses</b><br>The phrase emphasizes the divine authority behind the census. Moses acts not on his own initiative but in obedience to God's direct command. This reflects the theocratic nature of Israel's leadership, where God is the ultimate ruler. It also highlights Moses' role as a faithful servant and mediator between God and the people, a type of Christ who perfectly mediates the new covenant (<a href="/hebrews/3-5.htm">Hebrews 3:5-6</a>).<p><b>And these were the Israelites who came out of the land of Egypt</b><br>This phrase serves as a reminder of the Israelites' identity and history. It connects the current generation to the miraculous deliverance from Egypt, a foundational event in Israel's history that is frequently recalled throughout Scripture (<a href="/exodus/12-51.htm">Exodus 12:51</a>). This connection underscores God's faithfulness and the continuity of His promises. It also serves as a warning, as the previous generation who left Egypt perished in the wilderness due to unbelief (<a href="/hebrews/3-16.htm">Hebrews 3:16-19</a>), highlighting the importance of faith and obedience for the current generation.<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <b><a href="/topical/m/moses.htm">Moses</a></b><br>The leader of the Israelites, chosen by God to lead His people out of Egypt and through the wilderness. He is the one commanded by God to take the census.<br><br>2. <b><a href="/topical/t/the_israelites.htm">The Israelites</a></b><br>The descendants of Jacob, also known as the children of Israel, who were delivered from slavery in Egypt and are now in the wilderness preparing to enter the Promised Land.<br><br>3. <b><a href="/topical/t/the_census.htm">The Census</a></b><br>A divinely commanded enumeration of the Israelite men aged twenty and older, which serves both a practical and spiritual purpose in organizing the community for military and inheritance purposes.<br><br>4. <b><a href="/topical/t/the_lord.htm">The LORD (Yahweh)</a></b><br>The covenant God of Israel, who commands the census and guides His people through Moses.<br><br>5. <b><a href="/topical/t/the_land_of_egypt.htm">The Land of Egypt</a></b><br>The place of bondage from which the Israelites were delivered, symbolizing God's power and faithfulness in fulfilling His promises.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><b><a href="/topical/o/obedience_to_god's_commands.htm">Obedience to God's Commands</a></b><br>The census is a direct command from God, emphasizing the importance of obedience in the life of believers. Just as Moses followed God's instructions, we are called to obey God's Word in our lives.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/g/god's_faithfulness_and_provision.htm">God's Faithfulness and Provision</a></b><br>The census serves as a reminder of God's faithfulness in bringing the Israelites out of Egypt and His provision for their future. We can trust in God's promises and His provision for our needs.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/c/community_and_responsibility.htm">Community and Responsibility</a></b><br>The census highlights the importance of community and the role of each individual within it. As believers, we are part of the body of Christ and have responsibilities to one another.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/p/preparation_for_the_future.htm">Preparation for the Future</a></b><br>The census was a preparation for entering the Promised Land. In our spiritual journey, we must prepare ourselves for the future God has planned for us, both in this life and in eternity.<div class="vheading2">Lists and Questions</div><a href="/top10/lessons_from_numbers_26.htm">Top 10 Lessons from Numbers 26</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/is_rapid_tribe_growth_in_numbers_26_plausible.htm">Is the quick replenishment of certain tribes after mass deaths (Numbers 26) plausible without any record of extraordinary birth rates or other means of population growth?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/how_do_skeptics_view_genesis_46's_genealogy.htm">How do skeptics address potential inconsistencies between Genesis 46 and other Old Testament genealogies regarding the descendants of Jacob?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/how_could_600,000_israelites_exist_then.htm">How could the Israelites realistically number over 600,000 men in the desert (Numbers 26:51) without historical or archaeological evidence to support such a massive population?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/does_exodus_15_26_conflict_with_later_plagues.htm">Does the promise of divine protection in Exodus 15:26 conflict with later biblical accounts of Israel suffering plagues and diseases?</a><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/numbers/26.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(4, 5) <span class= "bld">Take the sum of the people . . . --</span>The verses may be rendered thus: <span class= "ital">From twenty years old and upward, as the Lord commanded Moses. And the children of Israel which went forth out of the land of Egypt </span>were these: <span class= "ital">Reuben, the eldest son of Israel, </span>&c. The expression "as the Lord commanded Moses" is one of very frequent occurrence in this book. The command was given to Moses, not to the children of Israel generally. The form of enumeration is concise. The omissions may be supplied thus:--Reuben--he was the eldest son of Israel. The sons of Reuben were--Hanoch--of him, the family of the Hanochites, &c. (Comp. <a href="/genesis/46-9.htm" title="And the sons of Reuben; Hanoch, and Phallu, and Hezron, and Carmi.">Genesis 46:9</a>; <a href="/exodus/6-14.htm" title="These be the heads of their fathers' houses: The sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel; Hanoch, and Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi: these be the families of Reuben.">Exodus 6:14</a>; <a href="/1_chronicles/5-3.htm" title="The sons, I say, of Reuben the firstborn of Israel were, Hanoch, and Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi.">1Chronicles 5:3</a>.)<p><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/numbers/26.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 4.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">Take the sum of the people.</span> These words are not in the text, but axe borrowed from verse 2. Nothing is set down in the original but the brief instruction given to the census-takers - "from twenty years old and upward, as on the former occasion." <span class="cmt_word">And the children of Israel which went forth out of the land of Egypt.</span> This is the punctuation of the Targums and most of the versions. The Septuagint, however, detaches these words from the previous sentence and makes them a general heading for the catalogue which follows. It may be objected to this that the people now numbered did not come out of Egypt, a full half having been born in the wilderness, but see on Numbers 23:22; 24:8. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/commentaries/numbers/26-4.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a></span><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div><span class="word">“[Take a census of the men] twenty</span><br /><span class="heb">עֶשְׂרִ֥ים</span> <span class="translit">(‘eś·rîm)</span><br /><span class="parse">Number - common plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_6242.htm">Strong's 6242: </a> </span><span class="str2">Twenty, twentieth</span><br /><br /><span class="word">years of age</span><br /><span class="heb">מִבֶּ֛ן</span> <span class="translit">(mib·ben)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition-m | Noun - masculine singular construct<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_1121.htm">Strong's 1121: </a> </span><span class="str2">A son</span><br /><br /><span class="word">and older,</span><br /><span class="heb">וָמָ֑עְלָה</span> <span class="translit">(wā·mā·‘ə·lāh)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw | Adverb | third person feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_4605.htm">Strong's 4605: </a> </span><span class="str2">The upper part, with prefix upward, above, overhead, from the top</span><br /><br /><span class="word">as</span><br /><span class="heb">כַּאֲשֶׁר֩</span> <span class="translit">(ka·’ă·šer)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition-k | Pronoun - relative<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_834.htm">Strong's 834: </a> </span><span class="str2">Who, which, what, that, when, where, how, because, in order that</span><br /><br /><span class="word">the LORD</span><br /><span class="heb">יְהוָ֤ה</span> <span class="translit">(Yah·weh)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - proper - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3068.htm">Strong's 3068: </a> </span><span class="str2">LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel</span><br /><br /><span class="word">has commanded</span><br /><span class="heb">צִוָּ֨ה</span> <span class="translit">(ṣiw·wāh)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Piel - Perfect - third person masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_6680.htm">Strong's 6680: </a> </span><span class="str2">To lay charge (upon), give charge (to), command, order</span><br /><br /><span class="word">Moses.”</span><br /><span class="heb">מֹשֶׁה֙</span> <span class="translit">(mō·šeh)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - proper - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_4872.htm">Strong's 4872: </a> </span><span class="str2">Moses -- a great Israelite leader, prophet and lawgiver</span><br /><br /><span class="word">And [these were] the Israelites</span><br /><span class="heb">וּבְנֵ֣י</span> <span class="translit">(ū·ḇə·nê)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine plural construct<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_1121.htm">Strong's 1121: </a> </span><span class="str2">A son</span><br /><br /><span class="word">who came out</span><br /><span class="heb">הַיֹּצְאִ֖ים</span> <span class="translit">(hay·yō·ṣə·’îm)</span><br /><span class="parse">Article | Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3318.htm">Strong's 3318: </a> </span><span class="str2">To go, bring, out, direct and proxim</span><br /><br /><span class="word">of the land</span><br /><span class="heb">מֵאֶ֥רֶץ</span> <span class="translit">(mê·’e·reṣ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition-m | Noun - feminine singular construct<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_776.htm">Strong's 776: </a> </span><span class="str2">Earth, land</span><br /><br /><span class="word">of Egypt:</span><br /><span class="heb">מִצְרָֽיִם׃</span> <span class="translit">(miṣ·rā·yim)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - proper - feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_4714.htm">Strong's 4714: </a> </span><span class="str2">Egypt -- a son of Ham, also his descendants and their country in Northwest Africa</span><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/numbers/26-4.htm">Numbers 26:4 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/numbers/26-4.htm">Numbers 26:4 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/numbers/26-4.htm">Numbers 26:4 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/numbers/26-4.htm">Numbers 26:4 NASB</a><br /><a href="/kjv/numbers/26-4.htm">Numbers 26:4 KJV</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/numbers/26-4.htm">Numbers 26:4 BibleApps.com</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/numbers/26-4.htm">Numbers 26:4 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/numbers/26-4.htm">Numbers 26:4 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/numbers/26-4.htm">Numbers 26:4 French Bible</a><br /><a href="/catholic/numbers/26-4.htm">Numbers 26:4 Catholic Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/numbers/26-4.htm">OT Law: Numbers 26:4 Take the sum of the people (Nu Num.) </a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="/numbers/26-3.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Numbers 26:3"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Numbers 26:3" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="/numbers/26-5.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Numbers 26:5"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Numbers 26:5" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhnew2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>