Numbers 26:3

The Holy Bible, Berean Study Bible

Contextual Overview

¹After the plague had ended, the LORD said to Moses and Eleazar son of Aaron the priest, ²"Take a census of the whole congregation of Israel by the houses of their fathers-all those twenty years of age and older who can serve in the army of Israel." ³So on the plains of Moab by the Jordan, across from Jericho, Moses and Eleazar the priest issued the instruction,⁴"Take a census of the men twenty years of age and older, as the LORD has commanded Moses." And these were the Israelites who came out of the land of Egypt:

Bible Verse Review
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Numbers 26:63, Numbers 22:1, Numbers 31:12, Numbers 33:48, Numbers 35:1, Deuteronomy 4:46-49, Deuteronomy 34:1, Deuteronomy 34:6, Deuteronomy 34:8

Reciprocal: Numbers 36:13 - in the plains of Moab

Cross-References

Genesis 12:7
Then the LORD appeared to Abram and said, "I will give this land to your offspring." So Abram built an altar there to the LORD, who had appeared to him.

Genesis 13:15
For all the land that you see, I will give to you and your offspring forever.

Genesis 13:17
Get up and walk around the land, through its length and width-for I will give it to you."

Genesis 15:18
On that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, "To your descendants I have given this land-from the river of Egypt to the great River Euphrates-

Genesis 17:8
And to you and your descendants I will give the land of your sojourn-all the land of Canaan-as an eternal possession; and I will be their God."

Genesis 20:1
Now Abraham journeyed from there to the region of the Negev and settled between Kadesh and Shur. While he was staying in Gerar,

Genesis 26:1
Now there was another famine in the land, subsequent to the one that had occurred in Abraham's time. And Isaac went to Abimelech king of the Philistines at Gerar.

Genesis 26:2
The LORD appeared to Isaac and said, "Do not go down to Egypt. Settle in the land where I tell you.

Genesis 26:6
So Isaac settled in Gerar.

Genesis 26:12
Now Isaac sowed seed in the land, and in that very year he reaped a hundredfold. And the LORD blessed him,

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Moses and Eleazar the priest spake with them,.... With the children of Israel, with the heads of them, their chief and principal, to assist in taking the number of the people; as when they were numbered thirty years ago, when a prince out of each tribe was taken to be with Aaron and Moses in doing that business; but those princes were now all dead, and another race succeeded, who were now employed in this service; so the Targum of Jonathan says, they spoke with the rulers, and ordered them to number them:

in the plains of Moab, by Jordan, [near] Jericho: or of Jericho, as the same Targum, on the other side of Jordan to that on which Jericho stood; for as yet the children of Israel had not passed that river, nor entered into the land of Canaan, in which Jericho was, but they were now opposite it; :-:

saying; as follows.