1 After the plague the Lord said to Moses and to Eleazar son of Aaron the priest,
2 “Take a census of the whole community of Israelites, from twenty years old and upward, by their clans, everyone who can serve in the army of Israel.”
3 So Moses and Eleazar the priest spoke with them in the plains of Moab, by the Jordan River across from Jericho. They said,
4 “Number the people from twenty years old and upward, just as the Lord commanded Moses and the Israelites who went out from the land of Egypt.”
5 Reuben was the firstborn of Israel. The Reubenites: from Hanoch, the family of the Hanochites; from Pallu, the family of the Palluites;
6 from Hezron, the family of the Hezronites; from Carmi, the family of the Carmites.
7 These were the families of the Reubenites; and those numbered of them were 43,730.