King James Version

What Does Numbers 2:32 Mean?

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.

Context

30

And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were fifty and three thousand and four hundred.

31

All they that were numbered in the camp of Dan were an hundred thousand and fifty and seven thousand and six hundred. They shall go hindmost with their standards.

32

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.

33

But the Levites were not numbered among the children of Israel; as the LORD commanded Moses.

34

And the children of Israel did according to all that the LORD commanded Moses: so they pitched by their standards, and so they set forward, every one after their families, according to the house of their fathers.

Commentary

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary
**40-45. If they shall confess their iniquity, &c.--**This passage holds out the gracious promise of divine forgiveness and favor on their repentance, and their happy restoration to their land, in memory of the covenant made with their fathers (Ro 2:1-29).

Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset, David Brown. Public Domain.

Historical Context

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