Numeri 26:3

3 Mosè adunque, e il Sacerdote Eleazaro, parlarono loro nelle campagne di Moab, presso al Giordano di Gerico, dicendo:

Numeri 26:3 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 26:3

And Moses and Eleazar the priest spake with them
With the children of Israel, with the heads of them, their chief and principal, to assist in taking the number of the people; as when they were numbered thirty years ago, when a prince out of each tribe was taken to be with Aaron and Moses in doing that business; but those princes were now all dead, and another race succeeded, who were now employed in this service; so the Targum of Jonathan says, they spoke with the rulers, and ordered them to number them:

in the plains of Moab, by Jordan, [near] Jericho:
or of Jericho, as the same Targum, on the other side of Jordan to that on which Jericho stood; for as yet the children of Israel had not passed that river, nor entered into the land of Canaan, in which Jericho was, but they were now opposite it; (See Gill on Numbers 22:1):

saying;
as follows.

Numeri 26:3 In-Context

1 ORA, dopo quella piaga, il Signore disse a Mosè e ad Eleazaro, figliuolo d’Aaronne, Sacerdote:

2 Levate la somma di tutta la raunanza de’ figliuoli d’Israele, annoverando dall’età di vent’anni in su, per le nazioni loro paterne, tutti quelli che possono andare alla guerra in Israele.

3 Mosè adunque, e il Sacerdote Eleazaro, parlarono loro nelle campagne di Moab, presso al Giordano di Gerico, dicendo:

4 Annoverate il popolo, dall’età di vent’anni in su; come il Signore avea comandato a Mosè, e ai figliuoli d’Israele, ch’erano usciti del paese di Egitto.

5 Il primogenito d’Israele fu Ruben. I figliuoli di Ruben furono, di Hanoc, la nazione degli Hanochiti; di Pallu, la nazione de’ Palluiti;