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The name ‘tent of meeting’ is a term very frequently employed in P for the Tabernacle (cf. Numbers 3:7 f., Numbers 4:2 f., Exodus 27:21, Leviticus 1:1; Leviticus 1:3). Exodus 29:42 (P ) shews the meaning which attached to it—‘where I will meet with you to speak there unto thee’; it was understood to mean ‘the tent where Jehovah met His people by appointment,’ the ‘tent of tryst.’
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Numbers 1:2. Take ye the sum — This is not the same muster...
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The enrollment, being taken principally for military...
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And the LORD spake unto Moses in the wilderness of {a}...
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God commands Moses and Aaron to number the people that were...
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- A. The Book of Numbers: in The Wilderness.
- B. Israel Takes Inventory: The Census of Numbers 1.
- C. The Count of The Tribes.
1. (1) God spoke to Moses in the Wilderness of Sinai.
Now the LORD spoke to Moses in the Wilderness of Sinai, in the tabernacle of meeting, on the first day of the second month, in the second year after they had come out of the land of Egypt, saying: a. In the second year after they had come out of the land of Egypt: As recorded in the book of Exodus, God miraculously rescued Israel from their long slavery in Egypt. They came through the Red Sea and saw God provide through the desert wilderness. Israel then came to Mount Sinai where God appeared...
2. (2-3) The command to take a census.
“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 individually, from twenty years old and above—all who are able to go to war in Israel. You and Aaron shall number them by their armies. a. Take a census of all the congregation of the children of Israel: As Moses met with the LORD in the tabernacle (Number 1:1), God commanded him to take a census – but counting only all who are able to go...
1. (4-16) The heads of the tribes.
“And with you there shall be a man from every tribe, each one the head of his father’s house. “These are the names of the men who shall stand with you: from Reuben, Elizur the son of Shedeur; from Simeon, Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai; from Judah, Nahshon the son of Amminadab; from Issachar, Nethanel the son of Zuar; from Zebulun, Eliab the son of Helon; from the sons of Joseph: from Ephraim, Elishama the son of Ammihud; from Manasseh, Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur; from Benjamin, Abidan th...
2. (17-19) The assembly of the leaders.
Then Moses and Aaron took these men who had been mentioned by name, and they assembled all the congregation together on the first day of the second month; and they recited their ancestry by families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and above, each one individually. As the LORD commanded Moses, so he numbered them in the Wilderness of Sinai. a. They assembled all the congregation together on the first day of the second month: This great assembl...
1. (20-21) The tribe of Reuben: 46,500 available soldiers.
Now the children of Reuben, Israel’s oldest son, their genealogies by their families, by their fathers’ house, according to the number of names, every male individually, from twenty years old and above, all who were able to go to war: those who were numbered of the tribe of Reuben were forty-six thousand five hundred. a. Those who were numbered of the tribe of Reuben were forty-six thousand five hundred: To many, this seems too large a number, and some people wonder if these numbers are accur...
2. (22-23) The tribe of Simeon: 59,300 available soldiers.
From the children of Simeon, their genealogies by their families, by their fathers’ house, of those who were numbered, according to the number of names, every male individually, from twenty years old and above, all who were able to go to war: those who were numbered of the tribe of Simeon were fifty-nine thousand three hundred.
3. (24-25) The tribe of Gad: 45,650 available soldiers.
From the children of Gad, their genealogies by their families, by their fathers’ house, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and above, all who were able to go to war: those who were numbered of the tribe of Gad were forty-five thousand six hundred and fifty.
The number 1 is only divisible by itself. Its meaning in the Bible centers on the unity and primacy of the God family being one. What is known as the Shema (or Shema Yisrael), which is taken from Deuteronomy 6:4, attests to this fact. This verse, twice, contains the tetragrammaton which is the four consonants used to designate God's name in the ...
1. That the numbers are registered in words at length (as I may say), and not in figures; to every one of the twelve tribes it is repeated, for the greater ceremony and solemnity of the account, that they were numbered by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, to show that ...
The Census of Israel A. The book of Numbers: In the Wilderness. 1. (Numbers 1:1) God spoke to Moses in the Wilderness of Sinai.Now the Lord spoke to Moses in the Wilderness of Sinai, in the tabernacle of meeting, on the first day of the second month, in the second year after they had come out of the land of Egypt, saying:
Numbers 1:1. And the Lord spake unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai Which is different from the wilderness of Sin, ( Exodus 16:1) ; and had its name from the mountain so called, on which God gave the law of the decalogue, and where the Israelites had been encamped eleven months, ( Exodus 19:1 Exodus 19:2) ; in the tabernacle of the congregation;
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Commentary on Numbers 1:47-54 (Read Numbers 1:47-54) 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 honours. It was to the honour of the Levites, that to them was committed the care of the tabernacle and its treasures, in ...
