Numbers 26:4
Take the sum of the people, from twenty years old and upward; as the LORD commanded Moses and the children of Israel, which went forth out of the land of Egypt.
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Gill's Exposition
Take the sum of the people, from twenty years old and upward,.... At the same age at which the sum was taken before, Num 1:3 so that there could not be one that was more than sixty years of age, of…
Observe here, 1. That Moses did not number the people but when God commanded him. David in his time did it without a command, and paid dearly for it. God was Israel's king, and he would not have this…
Academic commentary, 1882–1921
Cambridge Bible
Take the sum of the people This is added conjecturally in E.VV. [Note:.VV. The English Versions, i.e. Authorised and Revised.], the opening words of the verse having been lost.