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.
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From twenty years old and upwards,.... All that had entered into their twentieth year, or, as it should rather seem, who were full twenty years of age, and all that were above it without any…
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…
Moses is directed to number the fighting men of Israel with the help of twelve princes.
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