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_... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Numbers 1:2. _TAKE YE THE SUM, C._] God, having established the commonwealth of Israel by just and equitable laws, ordained every thing relative to the due performance of his own worship, erected his tabernacle, which was his throne, and the place of his residence among the people, and consecr... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Numbers 1:3. _FROM TWENTY YEARS OLD AND UPWARD_] In this census no _women_ were reckoned, nor _children_, nor _strangers_, nor the _Levites_, nor _old men_, which, collectively, must have formed an immense multitude; the Levites alone amounted to 22,300. True-born Israelites only are reckoned;... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Numbers 1:14. _ELIASAPH, THE SON OF DEUEL._] This person is called _Reuel_, Numbers 2:14. As the ד _daleth_ is very like the ר _resh_, it was easy to mistake the one for the other. The _Septuagint_ and the _Syriac_ have _Reuel_ in this chapter; and in Numbers 2:14, the _Vulgate_, the _Samarita... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Numbers 1:16. _THESE WERE THE RENOWNED_] Literally, _the called, of_ _the congregation _- those who were summoned by _name_ to attend. The order of the tribes In the above enumeration may be viewed thus: - 1. Reuben | 2. Simeon | 3. Judah |- Sons of Leah. 4. Issachar | 5. Zebulun | 6. Ep... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Numbers 1:25. _FORTY AND FIVE THOUSAND SIX HUNDRED AND FIFTY._] Mr. Ainsworth has remarked that Gad, the _handmaid's_ son, is the only one of all the tribes whose number ends with _fifty_, all the others are by _thousands_, and end with _hundreds_; which shows God's admirable providence and bl... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Numbers 1:33. _THE TRIBE OF EPHRAIM - FORTY THOUSAND AND FIVE_ _HUNDRED._] Ephraim, as he was blessed beyond his eldest brother Manasseh, Genesis 48:20, so here he is increased by thousands more than Manasseh, and more than the whole tribe of Benjamin, and his blessing continued above his bro... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Numbers 1:46. _ALL THEY THAT WERE NUMBERED WERE SIX HUNDRED THOUSAND_ _AND THREE THOUSAND AND FIVE HUNDRED AND FIFTY._] What an astonishing increase from _seventy_ souls that went down into Egypt, Genesis 46:27, about 215 years before, where latterly they had endured the greatest hardships! B... [ Continue Reading ]