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King James Bible - Numbers 26:3

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SEV Biblia, Chapter 26:3

Y Moisés y Eleazar el sacerdote hablaron con ellos en los campos de Moab, junto al Jordán de Jericó, diciendo:

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John Gill's Bible Commentary

Ver. 3. And Moses and Eleazar the priest spake with them , etc.] 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.

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Matthew Henry Commentary

Verses 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 wa nearly the same as when numbered at mount Sinai. Notice is here take of the children of Korah; they died not, as the children of Dathan an Abiram; they seem not to have joined even their own father i rebellion. If we partake not of the sins of sinners, we shall no partake of their plagues. (Nu 26:52-56)

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Original Hebrew

וידבר 1696 משׁה 4872 ואלעזר 499 הכהן 3548 אתם 854 בערבת 6160 מואב 4124 על 5921 ירדן 3383 ירחו 3405 לאמר׃ 559