Numbers 3:15

3:15 “Number the Levites by their clans ¹  and their families; every male from a month old and upward you are to number.” ² 

Numbers 3:22

3:22 Those of them who were numbered, counting every male from a month old and upward, were 7,500.

Numbers 3:34

3:34 Those of them who were numbered, counting every male from a month old and upward, were 6,200.

Numbers 8:3

8:3 And Aaron did so; he set up the lamps to face toward the front of the lampstand, as the Lord commanded Moses.

Numbers 14:4

14:4 So they said to one another, ³  “Let’s appoint ⁴  a leader ⁵  and return ⁶  to Egypt.”

Numbers 16:25

16:25 Then Moses got up ⁷  and went to Dathan and Abiram; and the elders of Israel went after him.

Numbers 21:20

21:20 and from Bamoth to the valley that is in the country of Moab, near the top of Pisgah, which overlooks the wilderness. ⁸ 

Numbers 24:18

24:18 Edom will be a possession,

Seir, ⁹  his enemies, will also be a possession;

but Israel will act valiantly.

Numbers 26:1

A Second Census Required

26:1 ¹⁰ After the plague the Lord said to Moses and to Eleazar son of Aaron the priest, ¹¹ 

Numbers 32:8

32:8 Your fathers did the same thing when I sent them from Kadesh Barnea to see the land.

¹ tn Heb “the house of their fathers.” So also in v. 20.

² tn Heb “you are to/shall number them.”

³ tn Heb “a man to his brother.”

⁴ tn The verb is נָתַן (natan, “to give”), but this verb has quite a wide range of meanings in the Bible. Here it must mean “to make,” “to choose,” “to designate” or the like.

⁵ tn The word “head” (רֹאשׁ, ro’sh) probably refers to a tribal chief who was capable to judge and to lead to war (see J. R. Bartlett, “The Use of the Word רֹאשׁ as a Title in the Old Testament,” VT 19 [1969]: 1-10).

⁶ tn The form is a cohortative with a vav (ו) prefixed. After the preceding cohortative this could also be interpreted as a purpose or result clause – in order that we may return.

⁵ tn Heb “rose up.”

⁷ tn Or perhaps as a place name, “Jeshimon.”

⁹ sn Seir is the chief mountain range of Edom (Deut 33:2), and so the reference here is to the general area of Edom.

¹¹ sn The breakdown of ch. 26 for outlining purposes will be essentially according to the tribes of Israel. The format and structure is similar to the first census, and so less comment is necessary here.

¹² tc The MT has also “saying.”