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Numbers 26:1

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After the plague had ended, the LORD said to Moses and Eleazar son of Aaron the priest,

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And it came to pass after the plague, that Jehovah spake unto Moses and unto Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, saying,

KJV

And it came to pass after the plague, that the Lord spake unto Moses and unto Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, saying,

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This verse in Numbers 26

Commentary

3 notes on this verse
After the plague - These words serve to show approximately the date at which the census was taken, and intimate the reason for the great decrease in numbers which was found to have taken place in certain tribes. Compare Deu 4:3 and Num 26:5 note in this chapter.

This site's exposition

And it came to pass after the plague

on Numbers 26:1-4

The first census was taken by Moses and Aaron in the wilderness of Sinai. This one is taken by Moses and Eleazar in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho, because Aaron died at mount Hor in 20:28 and his son wears the garments now. The terms are word for word what chapter 1 used, from twenty years old and upward, all that are able to go to war. Counting begins again after the plague of chapter 25, which had taken twenty and four thousand men.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

And it came to pass after the plague,....

How the passage was read

What the Jewish commentators add

It was after the plague. Adonoy spoke to Moshe and Elozor, son of Aharon the kohein, saying:
Targum · Onkelos Numbers 26:1, via Sefaria, Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 [with Onkelos translation]
1 more on this passage, in their own words ▾
לבית אבתם [TAKE THE SUM OF THE CONGREGATION] ACCORDING TO THEIR FATHERS’ HOUSE — after their fathers’ tribes shall they reckon their descent, and not after their mothers’ (Bava Batra 109b).
Rashi: France, 1040–1105 · Rashi on Numbers 26:2:1, via Sefaria, Pentateuch with Rashi's commentary by M. Rosenbaum and A.M. Silbermann, 1929-1934

This section is reception history: how the passage was read and kept in the Jewish tradition. Where a reading parts from an essential of the Christian faith, the section says so at that point.

Texts and citation data: Sefaria; each excerpt follows its version’s licence. 5 further sources are cited on this chapter that carry no English text this site may quote or only restate the verse.

The words behind it

10 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וַיֹּ֤אמֶרand he said

    vaiyomerH559 →5305 times

  • יְהוָה֙Yahweh

    yahwehH3068 →6520 times

  • אֶל־to

    ʾel-H413 →5510 times

  • מֹשֶׁ֔הMoses

    moshehH4872 →765 times

  • וְאֶ֧לand to

    veelH413 →5510 times

  • אֶלְעָזָ֛רEleazar

    ʾelazarH499 →72 times

  • בֶּן־[the] son of

    ben-H1121 →4930 times

  • אַהֲרֹ֥ןAaron

    ʾaharonH175 →347 times

  • הַכֹּהֵ֖ןthe priest

    hakohenH3548 →750 times

  • לֵאמֹֽר׃<to> saying

    lemorH559 →5305 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

2 in all, six open

The number beside each verse is how many compiled reference works tie it to this one. The strongest six stand open.

Numbers 25:9but those who died in the plague numbered 24,000.5 worksNumbers 26:7These were the clans of Reuben, and their registration numbered 43,730.2 works

The walk

5 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Numbers 25:9

    but those who died in the plague numbered 24,000.

    it leads to

    • 1 Corinthians 10:8

      We should not commit sexual immorality, as some of them did, and in one day twenty-three thousand of them died.

    • Deuteronomy 4:3–4

      Your eyes have seen what the LORD did at Baal-peor, for the LORD your God destroyed from among you all who followed Baal of Peor.

    • Numbers 25:4–5

      Then the LORD said to Moses, “Take all the leaders of the people and execute them in broad daylight before the LORD, so that His fierce anger may turn away from Israel.”

    • Numbers 14:37

      those men who had brought out the bad report about the land—were struck down by a plague before the LORD.

    • Numbers 16:49–50

      But those who died from the plague numbered 14,700, in addition to those who had died on account of Korah.

About Numbers

The Bronze Serpent, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
The Bronze Serpent, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Numbers: the study guide →Read Numbers 26 →

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament and John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763).

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