1. After the plague, Adonai said to Moses and Eleazar son of Aaron the kohen saying,
2. “Take a headcount of the entire community of Bnei-Yisrael, sons twenty years old and upward, by their ancestral houses, all who can serve in Israel’s army.”
3. So Moses and Eleazar the kohen spoke with them on the Moabite plains by the Jordan across from Jericho saying,
4. “Just as Adonai commanded Moses, a census will be taken of all men of Bnei-Yisrael who came out of Egypt, from 20 years old and upward.”
5. The descendants of the sons of Reuben, Israel’s firstborn: by Hanoch the Hanochite family, by Pallu the Palluite family,
6. by Hezron the Hezronite family, and by Carmi the Carmite family,
7. these Reubenite families numbered 43,730.
8. The son of Pallu was Eliab.
9. The sons of Eliab were Nemuel, Dathan, and Abiram. These were the Dathan and Abiram who were community leaders who rebelled against Moses and Aaron and were among the following of Korah in their rebellion against Adonai.
10. Then the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them with Korah, whose followers died when the fire consumed the 250 men, these men serving as a warning.