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Numbers 26:64
Among all these, however, there was not one who had been numbered by Moses and Aaron the priest when they counted the Israelites in the Wilderness of Sinai.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The narrator records a second census conducted by Moses and Eleazar on the plains of Moab, contrasting the current generation with the Exodus generation originally counted by Moses and Aaron at Sinai.
The words — לֹא (lo') = not, and מִפְקוּדֵי (mipqude) = from the enrolled, emphasizing the absolute exclusion of the previous census cohort from the new generation.
The thread — This exclusion echoes the judgment pronounced in Numbers 14:29 and is quantified by the thirty-eight-year delay noted in Deuteronomy 2:14, while the original Sinai census is recorded in Numbers 1:1.
Why it lands — It demands recognition that divine promise operates across generational breaks, requiring readers to account for both human failure and the precise continuity of God's counting.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
But among these there was not a man of them whom Moses and Aaron the priest numbered, when they numbered the children of Israel in the wilderness of Sinai.
Cross-references
- Deuteronomy 2:14 The time we spent traveling from Kadesh-barnea until we crossed over the Brook of Zered was thirty-eight years, until that entire generation of fighting men had perished from the camp, as the LORD had sworn to them.
- Numbers 1:1 On the first day of the second month of the second year after the Israelites had come out of the land of Egypt, the LORD spoke to Moses in the Tent of Meeting in the Wilderness of Sinai. He said:
- Numbers 14:29 Your bodies will fall in this wilderness—all who were numbered in the census, everyone twenty years of age or older—because you have grumbled against Me.
- Deuteronomy 4:3 Your eyes have seen what the LORD did at Baal-peor, for the LORD your God destroyed from among you all who followed Baal of Peor.
- 1 Corinthians 10:5 Nevertheless, God was not pleased with most of them, for they were struck down in the wilderness.
- Hebrews 3:17 And with whom was God angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?