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;
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Gill's Exposition
Take ye the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel,.... Excepting the Levites; nor were any account taken of the mixed multitude that came out of Egypt with the children of Israel, only…
A month had passed away since the setting up of the tabernacle Exo 40:2, Exo 40:17 : and the Sinaitic legislation was now complete (compare Lev 27:34). A census (“sum”) was commanded, to be based not…
I. We have here a commission issued out for the numbering of the people of Israel; and David, long after, paid dearly for doing it without a commission. Here is,
1. The date of this commission, Num…
Cambridge Bible
their families Rather their clans, i.e. groups of families related by blood.
fathers" houses here denotes families, smaller groups consisting of close relations; see Num 1:1; Exo 12:3. The term is,…
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