Nombres 26:2

Darby's French Translation

Relevez la somme de toute l'assemblée des fils d'Israël, depuis l'âge de vingt ans et au-dessus, selon leurs maisons de pères, tous ceux qui sont propres au service militaire en Israël.

Parallel Translations

La Bible Ostervald (1996)
Faites le compte de toute l'assemblée des enfants d'Israël, depuis l'âge de vingt ans et au-dessus, selon les maisons de leurs pères, tous ceux d'Israël qui peuvent aller à la guerre.

Louis Segond (1910)
Faites le dénombrement de toute l'assemblée des enfants d'Israël, depuis l'âge de vingt ans et au-dessus, selon les maisons de leurs pères, de tous ceux d'Israël en état de porter les armes.

La Bible David Martin (1744)
Faites le dénombrement de toute l'assemblée des enfants d'Israël, depuis l'âge de vingt ans, et au dessus, selon les maisons de leurs pères, [savoir] de tous ceux d'Israël qui peuvent aller à la guerre.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

The plague having swept away the last of that devoted generation, which provoked the Lord to "swear in his wrath that they should not enter" Canaan; he now, after an interval of 38 years, commands another census of the Israelites to be made, to preserve the distinction of families, and to regulate the tribes previous to their entry into the promised land, as well as to ascertain the proportion of land which should be allotted to each tribe. For, though the whole was divided by lot, yet the portions were so disposed, that a numerous tribe did not draw where the lots assigned small inheritances, or the contrary. Numbers 1:2, Numbers 1:3, Exodus 30:12, Exodus 38:25, Exodus 38:26

Reciprocal: Exodus 30:14 - from twenty Numbers 1:19 - General Numbers 32:11 - from twenty

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Take the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel,.... Excepting the Levites, who were to be numbered by themselves, and at a different age; this sum was to be taken, that it might appear that all of the old generation that came out of Egypt, of the age at which this sum was taken, were now dead, excepting two, as the Lord had threatened; and partly that as they were now about to enter the land of Canaan, it might be divided to them according to their number; as well as to show the faithfulness of God to his word and promise, that he would multiply and make them fruitful, notwithstanding all their provoking sins and transgressions:

from twenty years old and upwards, throughout their father's house; all of that age in every tribe, house, and family:

all that are able to go to war in Israel; for which they must prepare, being about to enter the land of Canaan, and dispossess and drive out the inhabitants of it.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Numbers 26:2. Take the sum of all the congregation — After thirty-eight years God commands a second census of the Israelites to be made, to preserve the distinction in families, and to regulate the tribes previously to their entry into the promised land, and to ascertain the proportion of land which should be allowed to each tribe. For though the whole was divided by lot, yet the portions were so disposed that a numerous tribe did not draw where the lots assigned small inheritances. See Numbers 26:53-56, and also Numbers 1:1; Numbers 1:1.