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

Of every tribe. —Or, for every tribe.

Every one head ... — The words may be rendered every one…

And with you there shall be a man of every tribe
Excepting Levi, of which Moses and Aaron were, to a ist in taking t…

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…