King James Version
Numbers 26:3 in the King James Version says “And Moses and Eleazar the priest spake with them in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho, saying,” — study this verse from Numbers chapter 26 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“And Moses and Eleazar the priest spake with them in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho, saying,”
Numbers 26:3 · KJV
And it came to pass after the plague, that the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, saying,
Take the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel, from twenty years old and upward, throughout their fathers' house, all that are able to go to war in Israel.
And Moses and Eleazar the priest spake with them in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho, saying,
Take the sum of the people, from twenty years old and upward; as the LORD commanded Moses and the children of Israel, which went forth out of the land of Egypt.
Reuben, the eldest son of Israel: the children of Reuben; Hanoch, of whom cometh the family of the Hanochites: of Pallu, the family of the Palluites:
KJV Study — Public Domain
“spake”
H1696perhaps properly, to arrange; but used figuratively (of words), to speak; rarely (in a destructive sense) to subdue
“the priest”
H3548literally one officiating, a priest; also (by courtesy) an acting priest (although a layman)
properly, nearness (used only as a preposition or an adverb), near; hence, generally, with, by, at, among, etc
“with them in the plains”
H6160a desert; especially (with the article prefix) the (generally) sterile valley of the jordan and its continuation to the red sea
above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications
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