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- 11550
- * his possession.
- # 25:10,25
- 11551
- # 12,18
- 11552
- # 20 25:28
- 11553
- * And all.
- # 3
- * to the shekel.
- A standard shekel; the standard being kept in the sanctuary,
- to try and regulate all the weights in the land by.
-
- * twenty.
- # Ex 30:13 Nu 3:47 18:16 Eze 45:12
- 11554
- * the firstling. Heb. first born, etc.
- As these firstlings were the Lord's before, it would have
- been a solemn mockery to pretend to make them a matter of a
- singular vow; for they were already appointed, if clean, to
- be sacrificed.
-
- * which.
- # Ex 13:2,12,13 22:30 Nu 18:17 De 15:19
- 11555
- * and shall add.
- This was probably intended to prevent rash vows and covetous
- redemptions. The priest alone was to value the thing; and to
- whatever his valuation was, a fifth part must be added by him
- who wished to redeem it.
-
- # 11-13
- 11556
- * no devoted.
- This is the {cherem,} the absolute, irredeemable grant to
- God.
-
- # 21 Ex 22:20 Nu 21:2,3 De 7:1,2 13:15,16 20:16,17 25:19
- # Jos 6:17-19,26 7:1,11-13,25 Jud 11:30,31 21:5,11,18
- # 1Sa 14:24-28,38-45 15:3,18,32,33 Mt 25:41 Ac 23:12-14 Ro 9:3
- # 1Co 16:22 Ga 3:10,13
- 11557
- * None.
- # Nu 21:2,3 1Sa 15:18-23
- * which shall be devoted.
- That is, either that every person devoted to the service of
- God shall not be redeemed, but die in that devoted state, or,
- that such as were devoted to death by appointment and law of
- God, as the Canaanites were, shall be put to death.
- 11558
- # Ge 14:20 28:22 Nu 18:21-24 De 12:5,6 14:22,23 2Ch 31:5,6,12
- # Ne 10:37,38 12:44 13:5,12 Mal 3:8-10 Mt 23:23 Lu 11:42 18:12
- # Heb 7:5-9
- 11559
- # 13
- 11560
- * passeth under the rod.
- The Rabbins say, that when a man gave the tithe of his sheep
- or calves, he shut them in one fold, in which was a narrow
- door, to let out but one at a time. He then stood by the
- door, with a rod dipped in vermilion in his hand, and as they
- passed he counted them with the rod; and when the tenth came
- he touched it, by which it was distinguished as the tithe
- calf, sheep, etc.
-
- # Jer 33:13 Eze 20:37 Mic 7:14
- 11561
- # 10
- 11562
- * commandments.
- # 26:46 De 4:45 Joh 1:17
- * in mount.
- # Nu 1:1 Ga 4:24,25 Heb 12:18-25
-
-
-
- CONCLUDING REMARKS.
-
- Thus terminates this most interesting and important book; a
- book containing a code of sacrificial, ceremonial, civil, and
- judicial laws, which, for the purity of their morality, the
- wisdom, justice, and beneficence of their enactments, and the
- simplicity, dignity, and impressive nature of their rites, are
- perfectly unrivalled, and altogether worthy of their Divine
- Author. All the rites and ceremonies of the Mosaic law are at
- once dignified and expressive. They point out the holiness of
- their Author, the sinfulness of man, the necessity of an
- atonement, and the state of moral excellence to which the grace
- and mercy of the Creator have destined to raise the human soul.
- They include, as well as point out, the gospel of the Son of
- God; from which they receive their consummation and perfection.
- The sacrifices and oblations were significant of the atonement
- of Christ; the requisite qualities of these sacrifices were
- emblematical of his immaculate character; and the prescribed
- mode in the form of these offerings, and the mystical rites
- ordained, were allusive institutions, calculated to enlighten
- the apprehensions of the Jews, and to prepare them for the
- reception of the Gospel. The institution of the high
- priesthood typified Jesus, the Great High Priest, called and
- prepared of God, who hath an unchangeable priesthood, and is
- able to save to the uttermost all that come unto God by him.
- 11563
- 1 God commands Moses to number the people.
- 5 The princes of the tribes.
- 17 The number of every tribe.
- 47 The Levites are exempted for the service of the Lord.
-
- * wilderness.
- # 10:11,12 Ex 19:1 Le 27:34
- * tabernacle.
- # Ex 25:22 Le 1:1
- * on the first day.
- As the tabernacle was erected on the first day of the first
- month, in the second year of their departure from Egypt, (Ex
- 40:17,) and this happened on the first day of the second
- month, in the same year, it is evident that the transactions
- related in the preceding book must all have taken place in
- the space of one month, and during the time the Israelites
- were encamped at mount Sinai.
-
- # 9:1 10:11 Ex 40:17 1Ki 6:1
- 11564
- * Take ye the sum.
- This numbering was probably intended to illustrate the Divine
- faithfulness in thus increasing the seed of Abraham; to
- prepare them to preserve due order in their march; and to
- distinguish the tribes and families.
-
- # 26:2-4,63,64 Ex 30:12 38:26 2Sa 24:1-3 1Ch 21:1,2 27:23,24
- * the children.
- # Ge 49:1-3 Ex 1:1-5
- * after.
- # 18,22,26-54 Ex 6:14-19
- 11565
- * twenty.
- # 14:29 32:11 Ex 30:14
- * able.
- # 26:2 De 3:18 24:5 2Sa 24:9 2Ch 17:13-18 26:11-13
- * by their.
- # 33:1 Ex 12:17
- 11566
- # 16 2:3-31 7:10-83 10:14-27 13:2-15 17:3 25:4,14 34:18-28
- # Ex 18:25 Jos 22:14 1Ch 27:1-22
- 11567
- * Elizur.
- # 2:10 7:30 10:18 Ge 29:32-35 30:5-20 35:17-26 46:8-24 49:1-33
- # Ex 1:2-5 De 33:1-29 Re 7:4-8
- 11568
- * Shelumiel.
- # 2:12 7:36
- 11569
- * Nahshon.
- # 2:3 7:12 10:14 Ru 4:18 1Ch 2:10,11 Mt 1:2-5 Lu 3:32
- * Naasson.
- 11570
- * Nethaneel.
- # 2:5 7:18 10:15
- 11571
- * Eliab.
- # 2:7 7:24 10:16
- 11572
- * Elishama.
- # 2:18 7:48 10:22 1Ch 7:26,27
- * Gamaliel.
- # 2:20 7:54 10:23
- 11573
- * Abidan.
- # 2:22 7:60 10:24
- 11574
- * Ahiezer.
- # 2:25 7:66 10:25
- 11575
- * Pagiel.
- # 2:27 7:72 10:26
- 11576
- * Eliasaph.
- # 7:42 10:20
- * Son of Reuel.
- # 2:14
- * Deuel.
- As the [d,] {daleth} is very like the [r,] {resh,}
- they might be easily mistaken for each other; and hence this
- person being called both Dëuel and Rëuel, may be easily
- accounted for. The Septuagint and Syriac have Reuel, in this
- chapter; and in ch. 2:14, the Samaritan, Vulgate, and Arabic
- have Deuel, instead of Reuel, with which reading a vast number
- of MSS. concur, and which is also supported by ch. 7:42, 10:20.
- We may therefore safely conclude, the Dëuel, and not Rëuel,
- was the original reading.
- 11577
- * Ahira.
- # 2:29 7:78 10:27
- 11578
- * the renowned.
- {Keruey häâidah,} literally "the called of the congregation,"
- those who were summoned by name to attend.
-
- # 2:3-31 7:2,10-83 10:14-27 11:17 16:2 26:9 Jud 6:15
- # 1Ch 27:16-22
- * heads.
- # 4 Ex 18:21,25 De 1:15 1Sa 22:7 23:23 Mic 5:2
- 11579
- # 5-15 Joh 10:3 Re 7:4-17
- 11580
- * their pedigrees.
- # Ezr 2:59 Ne 7:61 Heb 7:3,6 *margins
- * by the.
- # 2
- * according.
- # 20-54
- * from twenty.
- In this census no women were reckoned, nor children, nor
- minors, nor strangers, nor Levites, nor old men; which,
- collectively, must have formed an immense multitude; the
- Levites alone amounted to 22,300 men.
- 11581
- # 2 26:1,2 2Sa 24:1-10
- 11582
- # 2:10,11 26:5-7 Ge 29:32 46:9 49:3,4 1Ch 5:1
- 11583
- That a comparative view may be easily taken of the state of
- the tribes, we will here produce them, compared with that of
- the second census, (ch. 26,) in their decreasing proportion,
- beginning with the greatest and proceeding to the least.
-
- 1st Census 2nd Census
-
- 1. Judah, 74,600 76,500
- 2. Dan, 62,700 64,400
- 3. Simeon, 59,300 22,200
- 4. Zebulun, 57,400 60,500
- 5. Issachar, 54,400 64,300
- 6. Naphtali, 53,400 45,400
- 7. Reuben, 46,500 43,730
- 8. Gad, 45,650 40,500
- 9. Asher, 41,500 53,400
- 10. Ephraim, 40,500 32,500
- 11. Benjamin, 35,400 45,600
- 12. Manasseh, 32,200 52,700
- _______ _______
- Totals: 603,550 601,730
- ------- -------
-
- Thus we find Judah the most populous tribe, and Manasseh the
- least so; the difference between them being as great as
- 42,000. Jacob had given Judah the pre-eminence in his
- prophetic blessing; and that tribe was to have the precedency
- in the encampments of Israel: accordingly God had increased
- them more than any of their brethren. Ephraim and Manasseh,
- according to the same prophecy, were numbered as distinct
- tribes, Ephraim having the superiority, as it was foretold;
- and Joseph indeed appears "a fruitful bough."
-
- # 2:10,11 26:7
- 11584
- # 2:12,13 26:12-14 Ge 29:33 34:25-30 42:24 46:10 49:5,6
- 11585
- # 2:13 25:8,9,14 26:14
- 11586
- The tribe of Gad marched, along with that of Simeon, under
- the standard of Reuben; and it seems, on that account, to
- have been introduced in this order. The other tribes also,
- are here classed together according to their encampments, and
- the order of their subsequent march.
-
- # 2:14,15 26:15-18 Ge 30:10,11 46:16 49:19
- 11587
- # 2:15 26:18
- 11588
- # 2:3,4 26:19-22 Ge 29:35 46:12 49:8-12 2Sa 24:9 1Ch 5:2
- # 2Ch 17:14-16
- 11589
- # 2:3,4 26:22 2Sa 24:9 2Ch 17:14-16
- 11590
- # 2:5,6 23:23-25 Ge 30:18 46:13 49:14,15
- 11591
- # 2:6 26:25
- 11592
- # 2:7,8 26:26,27 Ge 30:20 46:14 49:13
- 11593
- # 2:8 26:27
- 11594
- # 2:18,19 26:35-37 Ge 30:24 37:1-36 39:1-23 46:20 48:1-22
- # Ge 49:22-26 De 33:17
- 11595
- * the tribe.
- # Ge 48:5 De 33:17
- * were forty.
- # 2:19 26:37
- 11596
- # 34
- 11597
- # 2:21 26:34 Ge 48:19,20
- 11598
- # Ge 35:16-18 44:20 46:21 49:27
- 11599
- # 2:23 26:41 Jud 20:44-46 2Ch 17:17
-