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4 “Number the people[a] from twenty years old and upward, just as the Lord commanded Moses and the Israelites who went out from the land of Egypt.”

Reuben

5 Reuben was the firstborn of Israel. The Reubenites: from[b] Hanoch, the family of the Hanochites; from Pallu, the family of the Palluites; 6 from Hezron, the family of the Hezronites; from Carmi, the family of the Carmites.

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 26:4 tn “Number the people” is added here to the text for a smooth reading.
  2. Numbers 26:5 tc The Hebrew text has no preposition here, but one has been supplied in the translation for clarity. Cf. vv. 23, 30, 31, 32.