Numbers 26:2-4

NSB⁽ⁱ⁾ ² »Take a census of the entire congregation of Israel by households. List those who are at least twenty years old and eligible for military duty.« ³ Moses and the priest Eleazar spoke to the Israelites on the plains of Moab near the Jordan River across from Jericho. They said: ⁴ »Take a census of those at least twenty years old, as Jehovah commanded Moses.« These are the Israelites who came from Egypt:

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The plague having swept away the last of that devoted generation, which provoked the Lord to "swear in his wrath that they should not enter" Canaan; he now, after an interval of 38 years, commands another census of the Israelites to be made, to preserve the distinction of families, and to regulate the tribes previous to their entry into the promised land, as well as to ascertain the proportion of land which should be allotted to each tribe. For, though the whole was divided by lot, yet the portions were so disposed, that a numerous tribe did not draw where the lots assigned small inheritances, or the contrary.
Numbers 1:2; Numbers 1:3; Exodus 30:12; Exodus 38:25; Exodus 38:26