“Take a census, from twenty years old and upward, as Yahweh commanded Moses and the children of Israel.” These are those that came out of the land of Egypt.
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“Take a census, from twenty years old and upward, as Yahweh commanded Moses and the children of Israel.” These are those that came out of the land of Egypt.
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Take the sum of the people, from twenty years old and upward; as the LORD commanded Moses and the children of Israel, which went forth out of the land of Egypt.
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'Take the sum of the people, from twenty years old and upward, as the LORD commanded Moses and the children of Israel, that came forth out of the land of Egypt.'
Cross-references (2)
Passages linked to Numbers 26:4 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Numbers 1:1 Yahweh spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the Tent of Meeting, on the first day of the second month, in the second year after they had come out of the land of Egypt, saying,
- 1 Chronicles 21:1 Satan stood up against Israel, and moved David to take a census of Israel.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Take the sum of the people: these words are…
Take the sum of the people: these words are easily supplied and necessarily to be understood from Num 26:2.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain Take the sum of the people, from twenty years…
Take the sum of the people, from twenty years old and upward,.... At the same age at which the sum was taken before, Num 1:3 so that there could not be one that was more than sixty years of age, of all those that went into the land of Canaan, except Joshua and Caleb, and besides some few in the tribe of Levi, which did not come into either of these musters:
and the Lord commanded Moses, and the children of Israel, which went forth out of the land of Egypt; as Moses had a command to number the people before, so he had now. The sin of David was, that he numbered the people when he had no command for it; Moses, when he brought the people out of Egypt, had them committed to him by number; and now being about to die, he delivers them up as it were by number again, as Jarchi observes.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Them. Hebrew, "commanded Moses and the children of Israel,…
Them. Hebrew, "commanded Moses and the children of Israel, who came forth out of the land of Egypt." The same plan was now to be pursued as formerly.
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).
Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 4. As the Lord commanded — Num_1:1-2; 2 Samuel…
4. As the Lord commanded — Num_1:1-2; 2 Samuel 24, notes.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 4. Take the sum of the people] This is…
4. Take the sum of the people] This is added conjecturally in E.VV. [Note: .VV. The English Versions, i.e. Authorised and Revised.] , the opening words of the verse having been lost.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (4, 5) Take the sum of the people .…
(4, 5) Take the sum of the people . . . —The verses may be rendered thus: From twenty years old and upward, as the Lord commanded Moses. And the children of Israel which went forth out of the land of Egypt were these: Reuben, the eldest son of Israel, &c. The expression “as the Lord commanded Moses” is one of very frequent occurrence in this book. The command was given to Moses, not to the children of Israel generally. The form of enumeration is concise. The omissions may be supplied thus:—Reuben—he was the eldest son of Israel. The sons of Reuben were—Hanoch—of him, the family of the Hanochites, &c. (Comp. Gen_46:9; Exo_6:14; 1Ch_5:3.)
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Take the sum of the people. These words are…
Take the sum of the people. These words are not in the text, but axe borrowed from verse 2. Nothing is set down in the original but the brief instruction given to the census-takers twenty years old and upward, as on the former occasion." And the children of Israel which went forth out of the land of Egypt. This is the punctuation of the Targums and most of the versions. The Septuagint, however, detaches these words from the previous sentence and makes them a general heading for the catalogue which follows. It may be objected to this that the people now numbered did not come out of Egypt, a full half having been born in the wilderness, but see on Num_23:22 Num_24:8.
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