³ So Moses and Eleazar the priest spoke with them ^(A)in the plains of Moab by the Jordan, across from Jericho, saying: ⁴ “Take a census of the people from twenty years old and above, just as the Lord ^(B)commanded Moses and the children of Israel who came out of the land of Egypt.”

^5 (C)Reuben was the firstborn of Israel. The children of Reuben were: of Hanoch, the family of the Hanochites; of Pallu, the family of the Palluites;