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The enrollment, being taken primarily for military purposes (compare Numbers 1:3, Numbers 1:20), would naturally be arranged by hundreds…

These [are] those that were numbered
Or, as the Targum of Jonathan, these are the sums of the numbers; namely, those…

We have here the sum total. How much was required to maintain all these in the wilderness! They were all provided for by God every day. When we obs…
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