Numbers 1:1-54 NIV
The Census
1The LORD Spoke To Moses in the tent of meeting in
the Desert of Sinai on the first day of the second
month of the second year after the Israelites came out
of Egypt.
the Desert of Sinai on the first day of the second
month of the second year after the Israelites came out
of Egypt.
HE Said:
2 “Take a census of the whole Israelite community by their clans and families, listing every man by name, one by one.
3You and Aaron are to count according to their divisions all the men in Israel who are twenty years old or more and able to serve in the army. 4One man from each tribe, each of them the head of his family, is to help you.
5These are the names of the men who are to assist you:
5These are the names of the men who are to assist you:
from Reuben, Elizur son of Shedeur;
from Ephraim, Elishama son of Ammihud;
from Manasseh, Gamaliel son of Pedahzur;
15from Naphtali, Ahira son of Enan.”
16These were the men appointed from the community, the leaders of their ancestral tribes. They were the heads of the clans of Israel.
17Moses and Aaron took these men whose names had been specified, 18and they called the whole community together on the first day of the second month. The people registered their ancestry by their clans and families, and the men twenty years old or more were listed by name, one by one, 19As The LORD Commanded Moses. And so he counted them in the Desert of Sinai:
All the men twenty years old or more who were able to serve in the army were listed by name, one by one, according to the records of their clans and families. 21The number from the tribe of Reuben was 46,500.
All the men twenty years old or more who were able to serve in the army were counted and listed by name, one by one, according to the records of their clans and families. 23The number from the tribe of Simeon was 59,300.
All the men twenty years old or more who were able to serve in the army were listed by name, according to the records of their clans and families. 25The number from the tribe of Gad was 45,650.
All the men twenty years old or more who were able to serve in the army were listed by name, according to the records of their clans and families. 27The number from the tribe of Judah was 74,600.
All the men twenty years old or more who were able to serve in the army were listed by name, according to the records of their clans and families. 29The number from the tribe of Issachar was 54,400.
All the men twenty years old or more who were able to serve in the army were listed by name, according to the records of their clans and families. 31The number from the tribe of Zebulun was 57,400.
From the descendants of Ephraim:
All the men twenty years old or more who were able to serve in the army were listed by name, according to the records of their clans and families. 33The number from the tribe of Ephraim was 40,500.
All the men twenty years old or more who were able to serve in the army were listed by name, according to the records of their clans and families. 35The number from the tribe of Manasseh was 32,200.
All the men twenty years old or more who were able to serve in the army were listed by name, according to the records of their clans and families. 37The number from the tribe of Benjamin was 35,400.
All the men twenty years old or more who were able to serve in the army were listed by name, according to the records of their clans and families. 39The number from the tribe of Dan was 62,700.
All the men twenty years old or more who were able to serve in the army were listed by name, according to the records of their clans and families. 41The number from the tribe of Asher was 41,500.
All the men twenty years old or more who were able to serve in the army were listed by name, according to the records of their clans and families. 43The number from the tribe of Naphtali was 53,400.
44These were the men counted by Moses and Aaron and the twelve leaders of Israel, each one representing his family. 45All the Israelites twenty years old or more who were able to serve in Israel’s army were counted according to their families.
48The LORD Had Said To Moses:
53 The Levites, however, are to set up their tents
around the Tabernacle of the Covenant Law so that
MY Wrath WILL Not Fall On the Israelite community.
The Levites are to be responsible for the care of the
Tabernacle of the Covenant Law.”
around the Tabernacle of the Covenant Law so that
MY Wrath WILL Not Fall On the Israelite community.
The Levites are to be responsible for the care of the
Tabernacle of the Covenant Law.”
First Census Taken
By JEHOVAH'S Command, the people were numbered to show GOD'S Faithfulness in thus increasing the seed of Jacob that they might be the better trained for the wars and conquest of Canaan, and to ascertain their families in order to the division of the land.
It was unlike the census that David took out of the pride of his heart in 2 Samuel 24. It was his sin in numbering of the people. He thought thereby to appear the more formidable, trusting in an arm of flesh more than he should have trusted JEHOVAH, and though he had written so much of Trusting In GOD Only.
It is said of each tribe, that those were numbered who were able to go forth to war; they had wars before them, though now they met with no opposition. Let us be prepared to withstand the enemies of our soul, though all may appear to be peace.
Care is here taken to distinguish the tribe of Levi, which, in the matter of the golden calf, had distinguished itself. Singular services shall be recompensed by singular honors. It was to the honor of the Levites, that to them was committed the care of the tabernacle and its treasures, in their camps and in their marches.
It was for the honor of the holy things that none should see them, or touch them, but those who were called of GOD to the service. We all are unfit and unworthy to have fellowship With GOD, until Called By HIS Grace into the Fellowship of HIS SON JESUS CHRIST our LORD; and so, being the spiritual seed of that GREAT HIGH PRIEST, we are made priests to our GOD.
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