A Family Exposition of the Pentateuch: Numbers Deuteronomy (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from A Family Exposition of the Pentateuch: Numbers Deuteronomy

Such is the commencement of the fourth book of Moses, called Numbers. It is so named, like the three preceding books, in reference to its contents, since two accounts are handed down in it of the numbering of the. Children of Israel. The former of these, as we learn from the pas sage we have just read, records the census that was taken in the second year of the wanderings of the Israelites in the wilderness; and the latter, as we shall afterwards find, in the twenty sixth chapter, that which occurred in the last year, thirty-nine years afterwards.

There was comparatively but slight difference in the two amounts, the second containing about eighteen hundred fewer persons than that of which we are now reading, but both exceeding six hundred thousand fighting men, besides women and children. For, after recording how many of each tribe were numbered, we read.

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