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A Census with a Purpose
Commentators explain that this census was not merely for population statistics. It served multiple crucial functions: organizing the nation for military conquest and orderly travel, preparing for the future division of the Promised Land, and demonstrating God's faithfulness in multiplying Abraham's descendants as promised.
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Albert Barnes
On Numbers 1:1–4
18th Century
Theologian
A month had passed since the tabernacle was set up (Exodus 40:2, Exodus 40:17), and the Sinaitic legislation was now complet…
Charles Ellicott
On Numbers 1:2
19th Century
Bishop
After their families. —The family or clan, mishpahah, included several fathers’ houses (see Kurtz’s Hist. of the Old Covenant…
John Gill
On Numbers 1:2
17th Century
Pastor
Take ye the sum of all the congregation of the children of
Israel
Excepting the Levit…
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Matthew Henry
On Numbers 1:1–43
17th Century
Minister
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…