Numbers 26:63
“These are they that were numbered by Moses and Eleazar the priest, who numbered the children of Israel in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho.”
And Nadab and Abihu died, when they offered strange fire before the Lord.
And those that were numbered of them were twenty and three thousand, all males from a month old and upward: for they were not numbered among the children of Israel, because there was no inheritance given them among the children of Israel.
These are they that were numbered by Moses and Eleazar the priest, who numbered the children of Israel in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho.
But among these there was not a man of them whom Moses and Aaron the priest numbered, when they numbered the children of Israel in the wilderness of Sinai.
For the Lord had said of them, They shall surely die in the wilderness. And there was not left a man of them, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.
Counter-Arguments
The strongest case that this verse does not belong in this theme.
Cross-References
“Take ye the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel, after their families, by the house of their fathers, with the number of their names, every male by their polls;”
“And from Bamoth in the valley, that is in the country of Moab, to the top of Pisgah, which looketh toward Jeshimon.”
“And Moses and Eleazar the priest spake with them in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho, saying,”
“And Moses and Eleazar the priest spake with them in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho, saying,”
“And the Lord spake unto Moses in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho, saying,”