Números 26:2

2 «Hagan un censo de toda la comunidad israelita por sus familias patriarcales. Enlisten a los varones mayores de veinte años, que sean aptos para el servicio militar en Israel».

Números 26:2 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 26:2

Take the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel,
&c.] Excepting the Levites, who were to be numbered by themselves, and at a different age; this sum was to be taken, that it might appear that all of the old generation that came out of Egypt, of the age at which this sum was taken, were now dead, excepting two, as the Lord had threatened; and partly that as they were now about to enter the land of Canaan, it might be divided to them according to their number; as well as to show the faithfulness of God to his word and promise, that he would multiply and make them fruitful, notwithstanding all their provoking sins and transgressions:

from twenty years old and upwards, throughout their father's house;
all of that age in every tribe, house, and family:

all that are able to go to war in Israel;
for which they must prepare, being about to enter the land of Canaan, and dispossess and drive out the inhabitants of it.

Números 26:2 In-Context

1 Después de la mortandad, el SEÑOR les dijo a Moisés y al sacerdote Eleazar hijo de Aarón:

2 «Hagan un censo de toda la comunidad israelita por sus familias patriarcales. Enlisten a los varones mayores de veinte años, que sean aptos para el servicio militar en Israel».

3 Moisés y el sacerdote Eleazar hablaron con el pueblo en las llanuras de Moab, cerca del Jordán, a la altura de Jericó, y le ordenaron

4 levantar un censo de todos los varones mayores de veinte años, tal como el SEÑOR se lo había mandado a Moisés.Los israelitas que salieron de Egipto fueron los siguientes:

5 De Enoc, Falú, Jezrón y Carmí, hijos de Rubén, el primogénito de Israel, proceden los siguientes clanes: los enoquitas, los faluitas, los jezronitas y los carmitas.