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Chapter 26.

Now, it came to pass after the plague that the Lord spoke to Moses and Eliezer,

the son of Aaron the priest, saying,

Take a census of all the congregation of the sons of Israel from 20 years old and above by their father's houses,

all able to go to war in Israel.

Anybody having deja vu flashbacks?

I know it's been a while.

Some of you weren't here.

But back in the beginning of the Book of Numbers, we had a census. Remember? All the tribes? And I said, there's going to be another census when we get

toward the end. Here we are. There's another census. Why do we need another census? Well,

remember, 40 years has passed between these censs. Sensi?

Sensis?

Censis?

Anyway.

Has passed, right?

So we had, the first census was the generation that came out of Egypt.

And then remember, they all had to die off in the wilderness because of their faithlessness, right?

And then it's their children's generation, 40 years later, who are going to get to go into

the land of Canaan.

And right now here, we're toward the end of the book, we're getting ready to go in the

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