Numbers 1:1 - Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown Book Notes

Numbers 1:1

The First Census of Israel

1 Now the Lord spoke to Moses ^ain the Wilderness of Sinai, ^bin the tabernacle of meeting, on the ^cfirst day of the second month, in the second year after they had come out of the land of Egypt, saying:

2 ^a“Take a census of all the congregation of the children of Israel, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of names, every male ^bindividually,

3 from ^atwenty years old and above—all who are able to go to war in Israel. You and Aaron shall number them by their armies.

4 And with you there shall be a man from every tribe, each one the head of his father’s house.

5 “These are the names of the men who shall stand with you: from Reuben, Elizur the son of Shedeur;

6 from Simeon, Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai;

Book Notes:

Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown Book Notes

Numbers

NUMBERS. This book is so called because it contains an account of the enumeration and arrangement of the Israelites. The early part of it, from the first through the tenth chapters, appears to be a supplement to Leviticus, being occupied with relating the appointment of the Levites to the sacred offices. The journal of the march through the wilderness is then given as far as Numbers 21:20; after which the early incidents of the invasion are narrated. One direct quotation only from this book (Numbers 16:5) is made in the New Testament (II Timothy 2:19); but indirect references to it by the later sacred writers are very numerous.

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