Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
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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Bible References
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 a census of} the entire community of the {Israelites} according to their clans and {their families}, according to [the] number of names, every male individually
Exodus 30:12
"{When you take a census of} the {Israelites} to count them, they will each give the ransom of his life for Yahweh when counting them, and a plague will not be among them when counting them.
Exodus 38:25
And the silver recorded from the community [was] a hundred talents and a thousand seven hundred and seventy-five shekels, according to the sanctuary shekel.
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Numbers 1:19
just as Yahweh commanded Moses. And he counted them in the desert of Sinai.