Numbers 26 in the early church

13 passages quote, allude to, or echo Numbers 26, grouped by verse; passages on the same verse are in date order. Verse text from the Berean Standard Bible (public domain). References use the Protestant English Bible's numbering, with a writer's own numbering in brackets where it differs.

Verses: 1 · 2 · 51 · 53 · 54 · 55 · 59 · 62 · 64 · 65

Numbers 26:1

After the plague had ended, the LORD said to Moses and Eleazar son of Aaron the priest,
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Reference	Passage	Kind	Date
Num 26:1–4	Homilies on Numbers 20.1 · Origen	allusion, high confidence	ca. 238–250 (Rufinus's translation ca. 400–410)
Num 26:1–51	Numbers, lines 743–767 · Cyprianus Gallus	allusion, high confidence	early 5th cent.

Numbers 26:2

“Take a census of the whole congregation of Israel by the houses of their fathers—all those twenty years of age or older who can serve in the army of Israel.”
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Reference	Passage	Kind	Date
Num 26:2	Arabic Pentateuch fragment XIX (on Num 25. 26) · Hippolytus of Rome	allusion, high confidence	unknown (transmitted in a medieval Arabic catena)
Num 26:2	Letter 78.43 · Jerome	allusion, high confidence	ca. 370–419

Numbers 26:51

These men of Israel numbered 601,730 in all.
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Reference	Passage	Kind	Date
Num 26:51	Arabic Pentateuch fragment XIX (on Num 25. 26) · Hippolytus of Rome	allusion, high confidence	unknown (transmitted in a medieval Arabic catena)

Numbers 26:53

“The land is to be divided among the tribes as an inheritance, according to the number of names.
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Reference	Passage	Kind	Date
Num 26:53–54	Homilies on Numbers 21.1 · Origen	quotation, high confidence	ca. 238–250 (Rufinus's translation ca. 400–410)

Numbers 26:54

Increase the inheritance for a large tribe and decrease it for a small one; each tribe is to receive its inheritance according to the number of those registered.
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Reference	Passage	Kind	Date
Num 26:54	Homilies on Numbers 21.2 · Origen	quotation, high confidence	ca. 238–250 (Rufinus's translation ca. 400–410)

Numbers 26:55

Indeed, the land must be divided by lot; they shall receive their inheritance according to the names of the tribes of their fathers.
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Reference	Passage	Kind	Date
Num 26:55–56	Homilies on Numbers 21.3 · Origen	quotation, high confidence	ca. 238–250 (Rufinus's translation ca. 400–410)

Numbers 26:59

and Amram’s wife was named Jochebed. She was also a daughter of Levi, born to Levi in Egypt. To Amram she bore Aaron, Moses, and their sister Miriam.
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Reference	Passage	Kind	Date
Num 26:59	On Virginity 19 · Gregory of Nyssa	allusion, medium confidence	ca. 370–371

Numbers 26:62

The registration of the Levites totaled 23,000, every male a month old or more; they were not numbered among the other Israelites, because no inheritance was given to them among the Israelites.
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Reference	Passage	Kind	Date
Num 26:62	Arabic Pentateuch fragment XIX (on Num 25. 26) · Hippolytus of Rome	allusion, high confidence	unknown (transmitted in a medieval Arabic catena)

Numbers 26:64

Among all these, however, there was not one who had been numbered by Moses and Aaron the priest when they counted the Israelites in the Wilderness of Sinai.
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Reference	Passage	Kind	Date
Num 26:64–65	Homilies on Numbers 21.1 · Origen	allusion, high confidence	ca. 238–250 (Rufinus's translation ca. 400–410)

Numbers 26:65

For the LORD had told them that they would surely die in the wilderness. Not one was left except Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun.
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Reference	Passage	Kind	Date
Num 26:65	On First Principles 2.5.1 · Origen	allusion, medium confidence	ca. 220–230 (Rufinus's translation 398)
Num 26:65	Commentary on 1 Corinthians 10:5 · Ambrosiaster	allusion, high confidence	ca. 366–384