1. AFTER THE plague the Lord said to Moses and Eleazar son of Aaron, the priest,
2. Take a census of all the [male] congregation of the Israelites from twenty years old and upward, by their fathers' houses, all in Israel able to go to war.
3. And Moses and Eleazar the priest told [the people] in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho,
4. A census of the people shall be taken from twenty years old and upward, as the Lord commanded Moses. And the Israelites who came forth out of the land of Egypt were: