Numbers 26:3
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New International Version (©1984)
So on the plains of Moab by the Jordan across from Jericho, Moses and Eleazar the priest spoke with them and said,

New Living Translation (©2007)
So there on the plains of Moab beside the Jordan River, across from Jericho, Moses and Eleazar the priest issued these instructions to the leaders of Israel:

English Standard Version (©2001)
And Moses and Eleazar the priest spoke with them in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho, saying,

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
So Moses and Eleazar the priest spoke with them in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho, saying,

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And Moses and Eleazar the priest spake with them in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho, saying,

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
So Moses and the priest Eleazar spoke to the Israelites on the plains of Moab near the Jordan River across from Jericho. They said,

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And Moses and Eleazar the priest spoke with them in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho, saying,

American King James Version
And Moses and Eleazar the priest spoke with them in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho, saying,

American Standard Version
And Moses and Eleazar the priest spake with them in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho, saying,

Douay-Rheims Bible
Moses therefore and Eleazar the priest, being in the plains of Moab upon the Jordan over against Jericho, spoke to them that were

Darby Bible Translation
And Moses and Eleazar the priest spoke with them in the plains of Moab by the Jordan of Jericho, saying,

English Revised Version
And Moses and Eleazar the priest spake with them in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho, saying,

Webster's Bible Translation
And Moses and Eleazar the priest spoke with them in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho, saying,

World English Bible
Moses and Eleazar the priest spoke with them in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho, saying,

Young's Literal Translation
And Moses speaketh -- Eleazar the priest also -- with them, in the plains of Moab, by Jordan, near Jericho, saying,

Gill's Exposition of the Entire 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; See Gill on Numbers 22:1,

saying; as follows.


Keil and Delitzsch Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament

"And Moses and Eleazar the priest spake with them" (דּבּר with the accusative, as in Genesis 37:4). The pronoun refers to "the children of Israel," or more correctly, to the heads of the nation as the representatives of the congregation, who were to carry out the numbering. On the Arboth-Moab, see at Numbers 22:1. Only the leading point in their words is mentioned, viz., "from twenty years old and upwards" (sc., shall ye take the number of the children of Israel), since it was very simple to supply the words "take the sum" from Numbers 26:2.

(Note: This is, at all events, easier and simpler than the alterations of the text which have been suggested for the purpose of removing the difficulty. Knobel proposes to alter וידבּר into ויּדבּר, and לאמר into לפקד: "Moses and Eleazar arranged the children of Israel when they mustered them." But הדבּיר does not mean to arrange, but simply to drive in pairs, to subjugate (Psalm 18:48, and Psalm 47:4), - an expression which, as much be immediately apparent, is altogether inapplicable to the arrangement of the people in families for the purpose of taking a census.),

- The words from "the children of Israel" in Numbers 26:4 onwards form the introduction to the enumeration of the different tribes (Numbers 26:5.), and the verb יהיוּ (were) must be supplied. "And the children of Israel, who went forth out of Egypt, were Reuben," etc.


Geneva Study Bible

And Moses and Eleazar the priest spake with them in the plains of Moab by Jordan {b} near Jericho, saying,

(b) Where the river is near to Jericho.


Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

26:1-51 Moses did not number the people but when God commanded him. We have here the families registered, as well as the tribes. The total was nearly the same as when numbered at mount Sinai. Notice is here taken of the children of Korah; they died not, as the children of Dathan and Abiram; they seem not to have joined even their own father in rebellion. If we partake not of the sins of sinners, we shall not partake of their plagues.


Numbers 22:1 Then the Israelites traveled to the plains of Moab and camped along the Jordan across from Jericho.
Numbers 26:4 "Take a census of the men twenty years old or more, as the LORD commanded Moses." These were the Israelites who came out of Egypt:
Numbers 33:48 They left the mountains of Abarim and camped on the plains of Moab by the Jordan across from Jericho.
Numbers 35:1 On the plains of Moab by the Jordan across from Jericho, the LORD said to Moses,

Eleazar Elea'zar Jericho Jordan Lowlands Moab Order Plains Priest Speaketh


And Moses and Eleazar the priest spake with them in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho, saying,

Nu 1:1 1Ch 21:1

Numbers Chapter 26 Verse 3

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