“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 spoke with them in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho, saying — The location—the plains of Moab, by the Jordan at Jericho—places the second generation at the very edge of the promised land. Jericho will be the first battle of conquest. The geographical detail underscores that this census occurs at the threshold of fulfillment, where the old wilderness generation has been stripped away and only those capable of conquest remain.
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