This is the number of the children of Israel, that were enrolled by Moses and Eleazar the priest, in the plains of Moab upon the Jordan, over against Jericho.
And all that were numbered, were twenty-three thousand males from one month old and upward. For they were not reckoned up among the children of Israel, neither was a possession given to them with the rest.
During the forty years of the journey in the wide wilderness, were uncircumcised: till all they were consumed that had not heard the voice of the Lord, and to whom he had sworn before, that he would not shew them the land flowing with milk and honey.