&#8220;Number the people<n id="1" /> from twenty years old and upward, just as the <sc>Lordsc> commanded Moses and the Israelites who went out from the land of Egypt.&#8221;p>

<p class="bodytext">These are those who were numbered by Moses and Eleazar the priest, who numbered the Israelites in the plains of Moab along the Jordan River opposite Jericho.<n id="1" />

But there was not a man among these who had been<n id="1" /> among those numbered by Moses and Aaron the priest when they numbered the Israelites in the wilderness of Sinai.

And they stood before Moses and Eleazar the priest and the leaders of the whole assembly at the entrance to the tent of meeting and said,

<t /><n id="1" /><p class="bodytext">Then the <sc>Lordsc> said to Moses, &#8220;Go up this mountain of the Abarim range,<n id="2" /> and see<n id="3" /> the land I have given<n id="4" /> to the Israelites.

<p class="bodytext">The <sc>Lordsc> replied<n id="1" /> to Moses, &#8220;Take Joshua son of Nun, a man in whom is such a spirit,<n id="2" /> and lay your hand on him;<n id="3" />

<p class="bodytext">So Moses did as the <sc>Lordsc> commanded him; he took Joshua and set<n id="1" /> him before Eleazar the priest and before the whole community.

<t /><n id="1" /><p class="bodytext">Moses told the leaders<n id="2" /> of the tribes concerning the Israelites, &#8220;This is what<n id="3" /> the <sc>Lordsc> has commanded:

<p class="bodytext">These are the statutes that the <sc>Lordsc> commanded Moses, relating to<n id="1" /> a man and his wife, and a father and his young daughter who is still living in her father&#8217;s house.p>

<p class="bodytext">So Moses spoke to the people: &#8220;Arm<n id="1" /> men from among you for the war, to attack the Midianites and to execute<n id="2" /> the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s vengeance on Midian.

<t /><p class="bodytext">So Moses sent them to the war, one thousand from every tribe, with Phinehas son of Eleazar the priest, who was in charge<n id="1" /> of the holy articles<n id="2" /> and the signal trumpets.

<p class="bodytext">Then Eleazar the priest said to the men of war who had gone into the battle, &#8220;This is the ordinance of the law that the <sc>Lordsc> commanded Moses:

and said to him,<n id="1" /> &#8220;Your servants have taken a count<n id="2" /> of the men who were in the battle, who were under our authority,<n id="3" /> and not one is missing.

the Gadites and the Reubenites came and addressed Moses, Eleazar the priest, and the leaders of the community. They said,

<p class="bodytext">Then Moses replied,<n id="1" /> &#8220;If you will do this thing, and if you will arm yourselves for battle before the <sc>Lordsc>,

<p class="bodytext">So the Gadites and the Reubenites replied to Moses, &#8220;Your servants will do as my lord commands.

<p class="bodytext">So Moses gave orders about them to Eleazar the priest, to Joshua son of Nun, and to the heads of the families of the Israelite tribes.

<t /><p class="bodytext">Then Moses gave a ruling<n id="1" /> to the Israelites by the word<n id="2" /> of the <sc>Lordsc>: &#8220;What the tribe of the Josephites is saying is right.

<p class="bodytext">These are the commandments and the decisions that the <sc>Lordsc> commanded the Israelites through the authority<n id="1" /> of Moses, on the plains of Moab by the Jordan River<n id="2" /> opposite Jericho.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="bodytext">So the Israelites did according to all that the <sc>Lordsc> commanded Moses; that is the way<n id="1" /> they camped under their standards, and that is the way they traveled, each with his clan and family.p>