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

From twenty years old and upward. —The result of the previous numbering (Exodus 30:12; Exodus 38:26), whic…

From twenty years old and upwards
All that had entered into their twentieth year, or, as it should rather seem, who …

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…