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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Numbers 26:64 - 26:64
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among these there was not a man ... numbered ... in the wilderness of Sinai - The statement in this verse must not be considered absolute. For, besides Caleb and Joshua, there were alive at this time Eleazar and Ithamar, and in all probability a considerable number of Levites, who had no participation in the popular defections in the wilderness. The tribe of Levi, having neither sent a spy into Canaan, nor being included in the enumeration at Sinai, must be regarded as not coming within the range of the fatal sentence; and therefore it would exhibit a spectacle not to be witnessed in the other tribes of many in their ranks above sixty years of age.
Tribes Chap. 1 Chap. 26 Increase Decrease
Reuben 46,500 43,730 - 2,770
Simeon 59,300 22,200 - 37,100
Gad 45,650 40,500 - 5,150
Judah 74,600 76,500 1,900 -
Issachar 54,400 64,300 9,900 -
Zebulun 57,400 60,500 3,100 -
Ephraim 40,500 32,500 - 8,000
Manasseh 32,200 52,700 20,500 -
Benjamin 35,400 45,600 10,200 -
Dan 62,700 64,400 1,700 -
Asher 41,500 53,400 11,900 -
Naphtali 53,400 45,400 - 8,000
Total 603,550 601,730 59,200 61,020
Total decrease 1,820