Numbers 1:1

THE FOURTH BOOK OF MOSES CALLED NUMBERS

-Year before the common Year of Christ, 1490.

-Julian Period, 3224.

-Cycle of the Sun, 27.

-Dominical Letter, D.

-Cycle of the Moon, 9.

-Indiction, 6.

-Creation from Tisri or September, 2514.

CHAPTER I

On the first day of the second month of the second year

after Israel came out of Egypt, God commands Moses to number all

the males of the people from twenty years and upward, who were

effective men and able to go to war, 1-3.

A chief of each tribe is associated with Moses and Aaron in this

business, 4;

the names of whom are given, 5-16.

Moses assembles the people, who declare their pedigrees

according to their families, 17-19.

The descendants of REUBEN are numbered, and amount to 46,500,

ver. 20, 21.

Those of SIMEON, 59,300, ver. 22, 23.

Those of GAD, 45,650, ver. 24, 25.

Those of JUDAH, 74,600, ver. 26, 27.

Those of ISSACHAR, 54,400, ver. 28, 29.

Those of ZEBULUN, 57,400, ver. 30, 31.

Those of EPHRAIM, 40,500, ver. 32, 33.

Those of MANASSEH, 32,200, ver. 34, 35.

Those of BENJAMIN, 35,400, ver. 36, 37.

Those of DAN, 62,700, ver. 38, 39.

Those of ASHER, 41,500, ver. 40, 41.

Those of NAPHTALI, 53,400, ver. 42, 43.

The amount of all the effective men in Israel, from twenty years

old and upward, was 603,550, ver. 44-46.

The LEVITES are not numbered with the tribes, because they were

dedicated to the service of God. Their particular work is

specified, 47-54.

NOTES ON CHAP. I

Verse Numbers 1:1. The Lord spake unto Moses-on the first day of the second month] As the tabernacle was erected upon the first day of the first month, in the second year after their coming out of Egypt, Exodus 40:17; and this muster of the people was made on the first day of the second month, in the same year; it is evident that the transactions related in the preceding book must all have taken place in the space of one month, and during the time the Israelites were encamped at Mount Sinai, before they had begun their Journey to the promised land.