Numbers 26:59

_AND THE NAME OF AMRAM'S WIFE WAS JOCHEBED, THE DAUGHTER OF LEVI, WHOM HER MOTHER BARE TO LEVI IN EGYPT: AND SHE BARE UNTO AMRAM AARON AND MOSES, AND MIRIAM THEIR SISTER._ No JFB commentary on these verses....

57-62 Levi was God's tribe; therefore it was not numbered with the rest, but alone. It came not under the sentence, that none of them should enter Canaan excepting Caleb and Joshua....

WHOM HER MOTHER BARE - literally, “whom she bare;” the subject is wanting, and the verb is in the feminine gender. The words “her mother” are merely conjectural. The text is probably imperfect....

EXPOSITION THE SECOND MUSTERING (Numbers 26:1). NUMBERS 26:1 IT CAME TO PASS AFTER THE PLAGUE. This plague was the last event which seriously diminished the numbers of the Israelites; perhaps it was the last event which diminished them at all, for it seems to be throughout implied that none died except through their own fault. It is often supposed that this plague carried off the last survivors of the generation condemned at Kadesh (see Numbers 26:64); but this is opposed to the statement in Deuteronomy 2:14,...

Numbers 26:57...

3. THE SECOND NUMBERING CHAPTER 26 _ 1. The command to number (Numbers 26:1)_ 2. The census taken (Numbers 26:5) 3. The total number (Numbers 26:51) 4. The inheritance (Numbers 26:52) 5. The Levites (Numbers 26:57) 6. The new generation (Numbers 26:63) The reader will find the comparison of these two numberings in the annotations of the first chapter. The increase and decrease of the different tribe

NUMBERS 26. PARTICULARS OF A SECOND CENSUS TAKEN 38 YEARS AFTER THE FIRST. Numbers 26:1. The Numbers of the Twelve Secular Tribes. The census was again confined to men over twenty. The total is Numbers 18:20 less than on the earlier occasion; there are increases in seven tribes, and decreases in five. Some of the names which purport to be those of persons are identical with the names of localities, _e.g._ Gilead, Jezer (_i.e._ Abiezer, Judges 8:2), Tirzah (1 Kings 15:21). Many of the appellations appear in a variant form in Genesis 46:8

JOCHEBED. Compare Exodus 2:1 with Exodus 6:20. BARE TO LEVI IN EGYPT. This explains apparent discrepancy between her age and that of Amram. See App-60....

The census of the Levites. They were numbered separately from the secular tribes, because they were not, as a tribe, to possess any land....

WHOM HER MOTHER BARE TO LEVI— Who bare to Levi. Perizon. 361. See Houbigant's note on the place....