1 ^zAfter the plague, the Lord said to Moses and to Eleazar the son of Aaron, the priest, 2 ^a“Take a census of all the congregation of the people of Israel, from twenty years old and upward, by their fathers’ houses, all in Israel who are able to go to war.” 3 And Moses and Eleazar the priest spoke with them ^bin the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho, saying, 4 “Take a census of the people,¹ from twenty years old and upward,” as the Lord ^ccommanded Moses. The people of Israel who came out of the land of Egypt were: