Numbers 26:2
'Take up the sum of all the company of the sons of Israel, from a son of twenty years and upward, by the house of their fathers, every one going out to the host in Israel.'
Exodus 38:25-26
And the silver of those numbered of the company is a hundred talents, and a thousand and seven hundred and five and seventy shekels, by the shekel of the sanctuary;
Numbers 1:2-3
Take ye up the sum of all the company of the sons of Israel by their families, by the house of their fathers, in the number of names -- every male by their polls;
Exodus 30:11-16
And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying,
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Take the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel, from twenty years old and upward, throughout their fathers' house, all that are able to go to war in Israel.
The plague having swept away the last of that devoted generation, which provoked the lord to "swear in his wrath that they should not enter" canaan; he now, after an interval of 38 years, commands another census of the israelites to be made, to preserve the distinction of families, and to regulate the tribes previous to their entry into the promised land, as well as to ascertain the proportion of land which should be allotted to each tribe
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The plague having swept away the last of that devoted generation, which provoked the lord to "swear in his wrath that they should not enter" canaan; he now, after an interval of 38 years, commands another census of the israelites to be made, to preserve the distinction of families, and to regulate the tribes previous to their entry into the promised land, as well as to ascertain the proportion of land which should be allotted to each tribe
Numbers 1:2
Take ye up the sum of all the company of the sons of Israel by their families, by the house of their fathers, in the number of names -- every male by their polls;
Exodus 30:12
When thou takest up the sum of the sons of Israel for their numbers, then they have given each an atonement for his soul to Jehovah in their being numbered, and there is no plague among them in their being numbered.
Exodus 38:25
And the silver of those numbered of the company is a hundred talents, and a thousand and seven hundred and five and seventy shekels, by the shekel of the sanctuary;
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Numbers 1:19
as Jehovah hath commanded Moses; and he numbereth them in the wilderness of Sinai.