A month had pa ed since the tabernacle was set up (Exodus 40:2, Exodus 40:17), and the Sinaitic legislation was now complete…

After their families. —The family or clan, mishpahah, included several fathers’ houses (see Kurtz’s Hist. of the Old Covenant…

Take ye the sum of all the congregation of the children of
Israel
Excepting the Levit…

The people were numbered to show God's faithfulness in so increasing the seed of Jacob, so that they might be better trained for the wars and conqu…