The number of persons given here is identical with the result of the census taken in the second month of the second year: see Numbers 1:46. This suggests that the computations recorded here were made not exactly at this time but. after the erection of the tabernacle. It is to be observed that the silver mentioned here is not that contributed voluntarily but what was obtained as ransom money (Exodus 30:11). The latter amount may for some reason have been substituted for the former in this passage.

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