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3From twenty years old and upward, all that are able to go forth to war in Israel: thou and Aaron shall number them by their armies.
Numbers 1:3 —
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Matthew Henry
(vv. 1-16)I. We have here a commission issued out for the numbering of the people of Israel; and David, long after, paid dearly for doing it without a commission. Here is, 1. The date of this commission, Num. 1:1. (1.) The place: it is given at God’s court in the wilderness of Sinai , from his royal palace, the tabernacle of the congregation . (2.) The time: In the second year after they came up out of Egyp...
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