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63 These are those who were numbered by Moses and Eleazar the priest, who numbered the Israelites in the rift valley plains[a] of Moab along the Jordan River opposite Jericho. 64 But there was not a man among these who had been[b] among those numbered by Moses and Aaron the priest when they numbered the Israelites in the desert of Sinai. 65 For the Lord had said of them, “They will surely die in the wilderness.” And there was not left a single man of them, except Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun.

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 26:63 sn This is the area of the rift valley basin to the north of the Dead Sea and east of the Jordan. See the note at Num 21:1.
  2. Numbers 26:64 tn “who had been” is added to clarify the text.

63 These were those listed by Moses and Eleazar the priest, who listed the people of Israel (A)in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho. 64 (B)But among these there was not one of those listed by Moses and Aaron the priest, who had listed the people of Israel in the wilderness of Sinai. 65 For the Lord had said of them, (C)“They shall die in the wilderness.” Not one of them was left, (D)except Caleb the son of Jephunneh and Joshua the son of Nun.

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