1. And it cometh to pass, after the plague, that Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, and unto Eleazar son of Aaron the priest, saying,
2. `Take up the sum of all the company of the sons of Israel, from a son of twenty years and upward, by the house of their fathers, every one going out to the host in Israel.'
3. And Moses speaketh--Eleazar the priest also--with them, in the plains of Moab, by Jordan, [near] Jericho, saying,
4. `From a son of twenty years and upward,' as Jehovah hath commanded Moses and the sons of Israel who are coming out from the land of Egypt.
5. Reuben, first-born of Israel--sons of Reuben: [of] Hanoch [is] the family of the Hanochite; of Pallu the family of the Palluite;
6. of Hezron the family of the Hezronite; of Carmi the family of the Carmite.
7. These [are] families of the Reubenite, and their numbered ones are three and forty thousand and seven hundred and thirty.
8. And the son of Pallu [is] Eliab;