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“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

Reuben was the firstborn of Israel. The Reubenites: from[b] Hanoch, the family of the Hanochites; from Pallu, the family of the Palluites; 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.