^2 (A)“Take a census of all the congregation of the children of Israel ^(B)from twenty years old and above, by their fathers’ houses, all who are able to go to war in Israel.” ³ So Moses and Eleazar the priest spoke with them ^(C)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 ^(D)commanded Moses and the children of Israel who came out of the land of Egypt.”