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Numbers 2:32

in Numbers 2

These are the Israelites, numbered according to their families. The total of those counted in the camps, by their divisions, was 603,550.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

These are they that were numbered of the children of Israel by their fathers’ houses: all that were numbered of the camps according to their hosts were six hundred thousand and three thousand and five hundred and fifty.

KJV

These are those which were numbered of the children of Israel by the house of their fathers: all those that were numbered of the camps throughout their hosts were six hundred thousand and three thousand and five hundred and fifty.

This verse in Numbers 2

Commentary

4 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

The total number of men in the camp of Dan

on Numbers 2:31-32

Dan's camp comes to 157,600 and goes hindmost, which Numbers 10:25 calls the rereward of all the camps. The four camps together are 603,550, the figure Numbers 1:46 gives, and the same figure Exodus 38:26 reached by another road, counting the half shekels paid by every man from twenty years old and upward toward the tabernacle. Two counts taken for two different purposes agree down to the last fifty.

This site's exposition

The total of those counted in the camps

The four camps add to 603,550: 186,400, 151,450, 108,100 and 157,600. Jamieson, Fausset and Brown compute that these soldiers alone, close in rank, would cover more than twelve square miles. Families, tents and baggage stretched the camp further.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

In the Christian church we read of a throne (as in the tabernacle there was a mercy-seat) which is called a glorious high throne from the beginning ( Jer. xvii.

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The words behind it

18 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • אֵ֛לֶּהthese

    ʾelehH428 →746 times

  • פְּקוּדֵ֥י[were] [the] [men] enrolled of

    pekudeiH6485 →303 times

  • בְנֵֽי־[the] people of

    venei-H1121 →4930 times

  • יִשְׂרָאֵ֖לIsrael

    yisraelH3478 →2507 times

  • לְבֵ֣יתto [the] house of

    leveitH1004 →2046 times

  • אֲבֹתָ֑םancestors their

    ʾavotamH1 →1212 times

  • כָּל־all

    kol-H3605 →5413 times

  • פְּקוּדֵ֤י[those] enrolled of

    pekudeiH6485 →303 times

  • הַֽמַּחֲנֹת֙the camps

    hamachanotH4264 →215 times

  • לְצִבְאֹתָ֔םto military groups their

    letzivotamH6635 →485 times

  • שֵׁשׁ־[were] six

    shesh-H8337 →216 times

  • מֵא֥וֹתhundred<s>

    meotH3967 →581 times

  • אֶ֙לֶף֙thousand

    ʾelefH505 →505 times

  • וּשְׁלֹ֣שֶׁתand three

    usheloshetH7969 →432 times

  • אֲלָפִ֔יםthousand<s>

    ʾalafimH505 →505 times

  • וַחֲמֵ֥שׁand five

    vachameshH2568 →343 times

  • מֵא֖וֹתhundred<s>

    meotH3967 →581 times

  • וַחֲמִשִּֽׁים׃and fifty

    vachamishimH2572 →163 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Exodus 38:26

    a beka per person, that is, half a shekel, according to the sanctuary shekel, from everyone twenty years of age or older who had crossed over to be numbered, a total of 603,550 men.

    it leads to

    • Numbers 1:46

      And all those counted totaled 603,550.

      Reached by 4 separate paths from here.

    • Exodus 30:13

      Everyone who crosses over to those counted must pay a half shekel, according to the sanctuary shekel, which weighs twenty gerahs. This half shekel is an offering to the LORD.

  • Through

    Numbers 11:21

    But Moses replied, “Here I am among 600,000 men on foot, yet You say, ‘I will give them meat, and they will eat for a month.’

    it leads to

    • Exodus 12:37

      The Israelites journeyed from Rameses to Succoth with about 600,000 men on foot, besides women and children.

      Reached by 4 separate paths from here.

  • Through

    Exodus 12:37

    The Israelites journeyed from Rameses to Succoth with about 600,000 men on foot, besides women and children.

    it leads to

    • Exodus 38:26

      a beka per person, that is, half a shekel, according to the sanctuary shekel, from everyone twenty years of age or older who had crossed over to be numbered, a total of 603,550 men.

      Reached by 3 separate paths from here.

    • Numbers 11:21

      But Moses replied, “Here I am among 600,000 men on foot, yet You say, ‘I will give them meat, and they will eat for a month.’

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • Numbers 33:3

      On the fifteenth day of the first month, on the day after the Passover, the Israelites set out from Rameses. They marched out defiantly in full view of all the Egyptians,

    • Numbers 33:5

      The Israelites set out from Rameses and camped at Succoth.

  • Through

    Numbers 1:46

    And all those counted totaled 603,550.

    it leads to

About Numbers

The Brazen Serpent, Anthony van Dyck, 1618 to 1620. Public domain.
The Brazen Serpent, Anthony van Dyck, 1618 to 1620. Public domain.

This page draws on Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: The Pentateuch and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.