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And the LORD spake unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the tabernacle of the congregation, on the first day of the second month, in the second year after they were come out of the land of Egypt, saying,
Take ye the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel, after their families, by the house of their fathers, with the number of their names, every male by their polls;
From twenty years old and upward, all that are able to go forth to war in Israel: thou and Aaron shall number them by their armies.
And with you there shall be a man of every tribe; every one head of the house of his fathers.
And these are the names of the men that shall stand with you: of the tribe of Reuben; Elizur the son of Shedeur.
Of Simeon; Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai.
Of Judah; Nahshon the son of Amminadab.
Of Issachar; Nethaneel the son of Zuar.
Of Zebulun; Eliab the son of Helon.
Of the children of Joseph: of Ephraim; Elishama the son of Ammihud: of Manasseh; Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur.
Of Benjamin; Abidan the son of Gideoni.
Of Dan; Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai.
Of Asher; Pagiel the son of Ocran.
Of Gad; Eliasaph the son of Deuel.
Of Naphtali; Ahira the son of Enan.
These were the renowned of the congregation, princes of the tribes of their fathers, heads of thousands in Israel.
And Moses and Aaron took these men which are expressed by their names:
And they assembled all the congregation together on the first day of the second month, and they declared their pedigrees after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, by their polls.
As the LORD commanded Moses, so he numbered them in the wilderness of Sinai.
And the children of Reuben, Israel's eldest son, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, by their polls, every male from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;
Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Reuben, were forty and six thousand and five hundred.

That a comparative view may be easily taken of the state of the tribes, we will here produce them, compared with that of the second census, (ch

Numbers 1:26 Of the children of Judah, by their generations, after their families, …

Thus we find Judah the most populous tribe, and Manasseh the least so; the difference between them being as great as

Numbers 2:10,11 On the south side shall be the standard of the camp of Reuben according …

Numbers 26:7 These are the families of the Reubenites: and they that were numbered …

Of the children of Simeon, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, those that were numbered of them, according to the number of the names, by their polls, every male from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;
Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Simeon, were fifty and nine thousand and three hundred.
Of the children of Gad, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;

The tribe of Gad marched along with that of Simeon, under the standard of Reuben; and it seems on that account, to have been introduced in this order. The other tribes also, are here classed together according to their encampments, and the order of their subsequent march.

Numbers 2:14,15 Then the tribe of Gad: and the captain of the sons of Gad shall be …

Numbers 26:15-18 The children of Gad after their families: of Zephon, the family of …

Genesis 30:10,11 And Zilpah Leah's maid bore Jacob a son…

Genesis 46:16 And the sons of Gad; Ziphion, and Haggi, Shuni, and Ezbon, Eri, and …

Genesis 49:19 Gad, a troop shall overcome him: but he shall overcome at the last.

Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Gad, were forty and five thousand six hundred and fifty.
Of the children of Judah, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;
Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Judah, were threescore and fourteen thousand and six hundred.
Of the children of Issachar, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;
Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Issachar, were fifty and four thousand and four hundred.
Of the children of Zebulun, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;
Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Zebulun, were fifty and seven thousand and four hundred.
Of the children of Joseph, namely, of the children of Ephraim, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;
Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Ephraim, were forty thousand and five hundred.
Of the children of Manasseh, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;

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Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Manasseh, were thirty and two thousand and two hundred.
Of the children of Benjamin, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;
Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Benjamin, were thirty and five thousand and four hundred.
Of the children of Dan, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;
Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Dan, were threescore and two thousand and seven hundred.
Of the children of Asher, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;
Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Asher, were forty and one thousand and five hundred.
Of the children of Naphtali, throughout their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;
Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Naphtali, were fifty and three thousand and four hundred.
These are those that were numbered, which Moses and Aaron numbered, and the princes of Israel, being twelve men: each one was for the house of his fathers.
So were all those that were numbered of the children of Israel, by the house of their fathers, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war in Israel;

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Even all they that were numbered were six hundred thousand and three thousand and five hundred and fifty.

What an astonishing increase from seventy persons who went down into Egypt about

Numbers 2:32 These are those which were numbered of the children of Israel by …

Numbers 23:10 Who can count the dust of Jacob, and the number of the fourth part …

Numbers 26:51 These were the numbered of the children of Israel, six hundred thousand …

Genesis 12:2 And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you, and …

Genesis 13:16 And I will make your seed as the dust of the earth: so that if a …

Genesis 15:5 And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, …

Genesis 17:6 And I will make you exceeding fruitful, and I will make nations of …

Genesis 22:17 That in blessing I will bless you, and in multiplying I will multiply …

Genesis 26:3 Sojourn in this land, and I will be with you, and will bless you; …

Genesis 28:14 And your seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and you shall spread …

Genesis 46:3,4 And he said, I am God, the God of your father: fear not to go down …

Exodus 12:37 And the children of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about …

Exodus 38:26 A bekah for every man, that is, half a shekel, after the shekel of …

Deuteronomy 10:22 Your fathers went down into Egypt with three score and ten persons…

1 Kings 4:20 Judah and Israel were many, as the sand which is by the sea in multitude, …

2 Samuel 24:9 And Joab gave up the sum of the number of the people to the king…

1 Chronicles 21:5 And Joab gave the sum of the number of the people to David…

2 Chronicles 13:3 And Abijah set the battle in array with an army of valiant men of …

2 Chronicles 17:14-19 And these are the numbers of them according to the house of their …

Hebrews 11:11,12 Through faith also Sara herself received strength to conceive seed, …

Revelation 7:4-9 And I heard the number of them which were sealed…

But the Levites after the tribe of their fathers were not numbered among them.
For the LORD had spoken unto Moses, saying,

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Only thou shalt not number the tribe of Levi, neither take the sum of them among the children of Israel:
But thou shalt appoint the Levites over the tabernacle of testimony, and over all the vessels thereof, and over all things that belong to it: they shall bear the tabernacle, and all the vessels thereof; and they shall minister unto it, and shall encamp round about the tabernacle.

thou shalt

Numbers 3:1-10 These also are the generations of Aaron and Moses in the day that …

Numbers 4:15,25-33 And when Aaron and his sons have made an end of covering the sanctuary, …

Exodus 31:18 And he gave to Moses, when he had made an end of communing with him …

Exodus 32:26-29 Then Moses stood in the gate of the camp, and said, Who is on the …

Exodus 38:21 This is the sum of the tabernacle, even of the tabernacle of testimony, …

1 Chronicles 23:1 So when David was old and full of days, he made Solomon his son king …

1 Chronicles 25:1 Moreover David and the captains of the host separated to the service …

1 Chronicles 26:1 Concerning the divisions of the porters: Of the Korhites was Meshelemiah …

Ezra 8:25-30,33,34 And weighed to them the silver, and the gold, and the vessels, even …

Nehemiah 12:8,22,47 Moreover the Levites: Jeshua, Binnui, Kadmiel, Sherebiah, Judah, …

Nehemiah 13:5,10-13,22 And he had prepared for him a great chamber, where aforetime they …

the tabernacle

Numbers 1:53 But the Levites shall pitch round about the tabernacle of testimony…

Numbers 20:11 And Moses lifted up his hand, and with his rod he smote the rock …

Exodus 31:18 And he gave to Moses, when he had made an end of communing with him …

Exodus 38:21 This is the sum of the tabernacle, even of the tabernacle of testimony, …

Psalm 122:4 Where the tribes go up, the tribes of the LORD, to the testimony …

shall encamp

Numbers 2:17 Then the tabernacle of the congregation shall set forward with the …

Numbers 3:23-38 The families of the Gershonites shall pitch behind the tabernacle westward…

Numbers 10:21 And the Kohathites set forward, bearing the sanctuary: and the other …

And when the tabernacle setteth forward, the Levites shall take it down: and when the tabernacle is to be pitched, the Levites shall set it up: and the stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death.
And the children of Israel shall pitch their tents, every man by his own camp, and every man by his own standard, throughout their hosts.
But the Levites shall pitch round about the tabernacle of testimony, that there be no wrath upon the congregation of the children of Israel: and the Levites shall keep the charge of the tabernacle of testimony.

shall pitch

Numbers 1:50 But you shall appoint the Levites over the tabernacle of testimony, …

Numbers 3:7 And they shall keep his charge, and the charge of the whole congregation …

Numbers 18:3 And they shall keep your charge, and the charge of all the tabernacle…

1 Timothy 4:13-16 Till I come, give attendance to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine…

2 Timothy 4:2 Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, …

there be

Numbers 8:19 And I have given the Levites as a gift to Aaron and to his sons from …

Numbers 16:46 And Moses said to Aaron, Take a censer, and put fire therein from …

Numbers 18:5 And you shall keep the charge of the sanctuary, and the charge of …

Leviticus 10:6 And Moses said to Aaron, and to Eleazar and to Ithamar, his sons, …

1 Samuel 6:19 And he smote the men of Bethshemesh, because they had looked into …

Jeremiah 5:31 The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their …

Jeremiah 23:15 Therefore thus said the LORD of hosts concerning the prophets; Behold, …

Acts 20:28-31 Take heed therefore to yourselves, and to all the flock, over the …

and the

Numbers 3:7,8 And they shall keep his charge, and the charge of the whole congregation …

Numbers 8:24-26 This is it that belongs to the Levites…

Numbers 18:3-5 And they shall keep your charge, and the charge of all the tabernacle…

Numbers 31:30,47 And of the children of Israel's half, you shall take one portion …

1 Chronicles 23:32 And that they should keep the charge of the tabernacle of the congregation, …

2 Chronicles 13:10 But as for us, the LORD is our God, and we have not forsaken him; …

And the children of Israel did according to all that the LORD commanded Moses, so did they.
Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge by R. A. Torrey [ca. 1880]
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