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Numeri 1:4
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ponetque manum super caput hosti�, et acceptabilis erit, atque in expiationem ejus proficiens.
Eruntque vobiscum principes tribuum ac domorum in cognationibus suis,
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Numbers 1:16, Numbers 2:3-31, Numbers 7:10-83, Numbers 10:14-27, Numbers 13:2-15, Numbers 17:3, Numbers 25:4, Numbers 25:14, Numbers 34:18-28, Exodus 18:25, Joshua 22:14, 1 Chronicles 27:1-22
Reciprocal: Leviticus 4:22 - a ruler hath sinned Numbers 7:2 - the princes Numbers 10:4 - General Numbers 30:1 - General Joshua 4:2 - twelve men Joshua 18:4 - three 1 Chronicles 23:24 - after the house Revelation 7:5 - tribe of Juda
Gill's Notes on the Bible
And with you there shall be a man of every tribe,.... Excepting Levi, of which Moses and Aaron were, to assist in taking the account, and to see that it was an exact and perfect one:
everyone head of the house of his fathers; and prince of the tribe he belonged to, as appears from Numbers 1:16 and Numbers 7:2, where an account is given of the same persons as princes of the tribes that offered at the dedication of the altar, who here assisted in the taking this account; the Targum of Jonathan calls them each a prince, as Prince Elizur, &c.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
A month had passed away since the setting up of the tabernacle Exodus 40:2, Exodus 40:17 : and the Sinaitic legislation was now complete (compare Leviticus 27:34).
A census (“sum”) was commanded, to be based not upon any fresh registration of individuals, but upon that which had accompanied the previous collection of the offerings. Compare Exodus 30:11, etc.; Exodus 38:25-28. The offerings had been probably tendered by the people in groups, and if certificates of registration were furnished to such groups, the new census might be easily carried out by means of these documents, and got through Numbers 1:18 in a single day. The present registration enrolled persons “after their families, by the house of their fathers;” and was superintended not by the Levites (see Exodus 38:21 and note), but by Numbers 1:4 an assessor for each tribe to act in the business with Moses and Aaron. The purpose now in view was not religious only. The census now taken would serve as a basis for various civil and military arrangements.