Numbers 1:2
Take ye the sum.This numbering was probably intended to illustrate the Divine faithfulness in thus increasing the seed of Abraham; to prepare them to preserve due order in their march; and to distinguish the tribes and families. 26:2-4,63,64; Ex 30:12; 38:26; 2Sa 24:1-3; 1Ch 21:1,2; 27:23,24the children.Ge 49:1-3; Ex 1:1-5after.18,22,26-54; Ex 6:14-19Numbers 1:18
their pedigrees.Ezr 2:59; Ne 7:61; Heb 7:3,6; *marginsby the.2according.20-54from twenty.In this census no women were reckoned, nor children, nor minors, nor strangers, nor Levites, nor old men; which, collectively, must have formed an immense multitude; the Levites alone amounted to 22,300 men.
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