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

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 assist in taking …

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…