Numbers 1

And the LORD spake unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the tabernacle of the congregation, on the first day of the second month, in the second year after they were come out of the land of Egypt, saying,

wilderness

10.11,12 Exodus 19.1 Leviticus 27.34

tabernacle

Exodus 25.22 Leviticus 1.1

on the first day

As the tabernacle was erected on the first day of the first month, in the second year of their departure from Egypt, (Ex 40:17,) and this happened on the first day of the second month, in the same year, it is evident that the transactions related in the preceding book must all have taken place in the space of one month, and during the time the Israelites were encamped at mount Sinai.

9.1 10.11 Exodus 40.17 1 Kings 6.1

Take ye the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel, after their families, by the house of their fathers, with the number of their names, every male by their polls;

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 Exodus 30.12 38.26 2 Samuel 24.1-3 1 Chronicles 21.1,2 27.23,24

the children

Genesis 49.1-3 Exodus 1.1-5

after

18,22,26-54 Exodus 6.14-19

From twenty years old and upward, all that are able to go forth to war in Israel: thou and Aaron shall number them by their armies.

twenty

14.29 32.11 Exodus 30.14

able

26.2 Deuteronomy 3.18 24.5 2 Samuel 24.9 2 Chronicles 17.13-18 26.11-13

by their

33.1 Exodus 12.17

And with you there shall be a man of every tribe; every one head of the house of his fathers.

16 2.3-31 7.10-83 10.14-27 13.2-15 17.3 25.4,14 34.18-28 Exodus 18.25 Joshua 22.14 1 Chronicles 27.1-22

And these are the names of the men that shall stand with you: of the tribe of Reuben; Elizur the son of Shedeur.

Elizur

2.10 7.30 10.18 Genesis 29.32-35 30.5-20 35.17-26 46.8-24 49.1-33 Exodus 1.2-5 Deuteronomy 33.1-29 Revelation 7.4-8

Of Simeon; Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai.

Shelumiel

2.12 7.36

Of Judah; Nahshon the son of Amminadab.

Nahshon

2.3 7.12 10.14 Ruth 4.18 1 Chronicles 2.10,11 Matthew 1.2-5 Luke 3.32

Naasson

Verse 8

Of Issachar; Nethaneel the son of Zuar.

Nethaneel

2.5 7.18 10.15

Of Zebulun; Eliab the son of Helon.

Eliab

2.7 7.24 10.16

Of the children of Joseph: of Ephraim; Elishama the son of Ammihud: of Manasseh; Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur.

Elishama

2.18 7.48 10.22 1 Chronicles 7.26,27

Gamaliel

2.20 7.54 10.23

Of Benjamin; Abidan the son of Gideoni.

Abidan

2.22 7.60 10.24

Of Dan; Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai.

Ahiezer

2.25 7.66 10.25

Of Asher; Pagiel the son of Ocran.

Pagiel

2.27 7.72 10.26

Of Gad; Eliasaph the son of Deuel.

Eliasaph

7.42 10.20

Son of Reuel

2.14

Deuel

As the [d] daleth is very like the [r] resh, they might be easily mistaken for each other; and hence this person being called both DÎuel and RÎuel, may be easily accounted for. The Septuagint and Syriac have Reuel, in this chapter; and in ch. 2:14, the Samaritan, Vulgate, and Arabic have Deuel, instead of Reuel, with which reading a vast number of MSS. concur, and which is also supported by ch. 7:42, 10:20. We may therefore safely conclude, the DÎuel, and not RÎuel, was the original reading.

Of Naphtali; Ahira the son of Enan.

Ahira

2.29 7.78 10.27

These were the renowned of the congregation, princes of the tribes of their fathers, heads of thousands in Israel.

the renowned

Keruey h‰‚idah, literally "the called of the congregation," those who were summoned by name to attend.

2.3-31 7.2,10-83 10.14-27 11.17 16.2 26.9 Judges 6.15 1 Chronicles 27.16-22

heads

4 Exodus 18.21,25 Deuteronomy 1.15 1 Samuel 22.7 23.23 Micah 5.2

And Moses and Aaron took these men which are expressed by their names:

5-15 John 10.3 Revelation 7.4-17

And they assembled all the congregation together on the first day of the second month, and they declared their pedigrees after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, by their polls.

their pedigrees

Ezra 2.59 Nehemiah 7.61 Hebrews 7.3,6 *margins

by the

according

from 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.

As the LORD commanded Moses, so he numbered them in the wilderness of Sinai.

2 26.1,2 2 Samuel 24.1-10

And the children of Reuben, Israel's eldest son, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, by their polls, every male from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;

2.10,11 26.5-7 Genesis 29.32 46.9 49.3,4 1 Chronicles 5.1

Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Reuben, were forty and six thousand and five hundred.

2.10,11 26.7

Of the children of Simeon, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, those that were numbered of them, according to the number of the names, by their polls, every male from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;

2.12,13 26.12-14 Genesis 29.33 34.25-30 42.24 46.10 49.5,6

Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Simeon, were fifty and nine thousand and three hundred.

2.13 25.8,9,14 26.14

Of the children of Gad, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;

2.14,15 26.15-18 Genesis 30.10,11 46.16 49.19

Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Gad, were forty and five thousand six hundred and fifty.

2.15 26.18

Of the children of Judah, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;

2.3,4 26.19-22 Genesis 29.35 46.12 49.8-12 2 Samuel 24.9 1 Chronicles 5.2 2 Chronicles 17.14-16

Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Judah, were threescore and fourteen thousand and six hundred.

2.3,4 26.22 2 Samuel 24.9 2 Chronicles 17.14-16

Of the children of Issachar, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;

2.5,6 23.23-25 Genesis 30.18 46.13 49.14,15

Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Issachar, were fifty and four thousand and four hundred.

2.6 26.25

Of the children of Zebulun, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;

2.7,8 26.26,27 Genesis 30.20 46.14 49.13

Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Zebulun, were fifty and seven thousand and four hundred.

2.8 26.27

Of the children of Joseph, namely, of the children of Ephraim, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;

2.18,19 26.35-37 Genesis 30.24 37.1-36 39.1-23 46.20 48.1-22 Genesis 49.22-26 Deuteronomy 33.17

Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Ephraim, were forty thousand and five hundred.

the tribe

Genesis 48.5 Deuteronomy 33.17

were forty

2.19 26.37

Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Manasseh, were thirty and two thousand and two hundred.

2.21 26.34 Genesis 48.19,20

Of the children of Benjamin, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;

Genesis 35.16-18 44.20 46.21 49.27

Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Benjamin, were thirty and five thousand and four hundred.

2.23 26.41 Judges 20.44-46 2 Chronicles 17.17

Of the children of Dan, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;

Genesis 30.5,6 46.23 49.16,17

Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Dan, were threescore and two thousand and seven hundred.

2.26 26.43

Of the children of Asher, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;

Genesis 30.12,13 46.27 49.20

Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Asher, were forty and one thousand and five hundred.

2.28 26.47

Of the children of Naphtali, throughout their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;

Naphtali

Genesis 30.7,8 46.24 49.21 Respecting the manner in which this vast multitude sprang from 75; person, Scheuchzer has some valuable calculations, with the results of which we present the reader:--

Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Naphtali, were fifty and three thousand and four hundred.

2.30 26.50

These are those that were numbered, which Moses and Aaron numbered, and the princes of Israel, being twelve men: each one was for the house of his fathers.

2-16 26.64

Even all they that were numbered were six hundred thousand and three thousand and five hundred and fifty.

2.32 23.10 26.51 Genesis 12.2 13.16 15.5 17.6 22.17 26.3 28.14 Genesis 46.3,4 Exodus 12.37 38.26 Deuteronomy 10.22 1 Kings 4.20 2 Samuel 24.9 1 Chronicles 21.5 2 Chronicles 13.3 17.14-19 Hebrews 11.11,12 Revelation 7.4-9

But the Levites after the tribe of their fathers were not numbered among them.

3,50 2.33 3.1-51 4.1-49 8.1-26 26.57-62 1 Chronicles 6.1-81 21.6

Only thou shalt not number the tribe of Levi, neither take the sum of them among the children of Israel:

2.33 26.62

But thou shalt appoint the Levites over the tabernacle of testimony, and over all the vessels thereof, and over all things that belong to it: they shall bear the tabernacle, and all the vessels thereof; and they shall minister unto it, and shall encamp round about the tabernacle.

thou shalt

3.1-10 4.15,25-33 Exodus 31.18 32.26-29 38.21 1 Chronicles 23.1-32 1 Chronicles 25.1-26 Ezra 8.25-30,33,34 Nehemiah 12.8,22,47 13.5,10-13,22

the tabernacle

53 20.11 Exodus 31.18 38.21 Psalms 122.4

shall encamp

2.17 3.23-38 10.21

And when the tabernacle setteth forward, the Levites shall take it down: and when the tabernacle is to be pitched, the Levites shall set it up: and the stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death.

the Levites

4.5-33 10.11,17-21

the stranger

3.10,38 16.40 18.22 Leviticus 22.10-13 1 Samuel 6.19 2 Samuel 6.7

And the children of Israel shall pitch their tents, every man by his own camp, and every man by his own standard, throughout their hosts.

2.2,34 10.1-36 24.2

But the Levites shall pitch round about the tabernacle of testimony, that there be no wrath upon the congregation of the children of Israel: and the Levites shall keep the charge of the tabernacle of testimony.

shall pitch

50 3.7 18.3 1 Timothy 4.13-16 2 Timothy 4.2 8.19 16.46 18.5 Leviticus 10.6 1 Samuel 6.19 Jeremiah 5.31 23.15 Acts 20.28-31

and the

3.7,8 8.24-26 18.3-5 31.30,47 1 Chronicles 23.32 2 Chronicles 13.10

And the children of Israel did according to all that the LORD commanded Moses, so did they.

2.34 Exodus 23.21,22 39.32,43 40.16,32 Deuteronomy 12.32 1 Samuel 15.22 Matthew 28.20