Numbers 1:2
“Take a census of the whole congregation of Israel by their clans and families, listing every man by name, one by one.
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;
“Take a census of all the congregation of the children of Israel, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, every male, one by one,
Take ye the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, every male, by their polls;
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- Take ye the sum
- This numbering was probably intended to illustrate the Divine faithfulness in thus increasing the seed of Abraham; to prepare them to preserve due order in their march; and to distinguish the tribes and families.
- Numbers 26:2–4, 63, 64; Exodus 30:12; Exodus 38:26; 2 Samuel 24:1–3; 1 Chronicles 21:1, 2; 1 Chronicles 27:23, 24
- the children
- Genesis 49:1–3; Exodus 1:1–5
- after
- Numbers 1:18, 22, 26–54; Exodus 6:14–19