This shows a decrease of 1,820 from the number at Sinai; a decrease due to the recent plague.

Six hundred thousand and a thousand seven hundred and thirty.— The sum total exhibits a decrease of 1,820, as compared with the ce…

These are the numbered of the children of Israel. By this sum total, what I have previously referred to is more clearly shown: that amid s…

These were the numbered of the children of Israel
The twelve tribes, consisting of so many families, as above named;…

Moses did not number the people except when God commanded him. Here, the families are registered, as well as the tribes. The total was nearly the s…