So Moses and Eleazar the priest said to them in the plains of Moab by the Jordan across from Jericho, “Take a census of those 20 years old or more, as the Lord had commanded Moses and the Israelites who came out of the land of Egypt.”(A)

Reuben(B) was the firstborn of Israel.
Reuben’s descendants:
the Hanochite clan from Hanoch;
the Palluite clan from Pallu;

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So on the plains of Moab along the Jordan at Jericho, Moses and Eleazar the priest enrolled them, those of twenty years or more, as the Lord had commanded Moses.

The Israelites who came out of the land of Egypt were as follows:[a]

(A)Reuben, the firstborn of Israel. The descendants of Reuben by their clans were: through Hanoch, the clan of the Hanochites; through Pallu, the clan of the Palluites;

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Footnotes

  1. 26:4 This introduction to the census seems to contradict vv. 64–65 by including those who came out of Egypt.