These were the numbered of the children of
Israel
The twelve tribes, consisting of so many families, as above
named; and the sum total of persons in them of twenty years old
and upwards, and fit for war, was
six hundred and one thousand and seven hundred and
thirty;
so that though all those that were numbered thirty years ago were
now dead, excepting Joshua and Caleb, yet there wanted but 1820
of that number; so mindful was the Lord of his promise, and so
faithful to keep it, notwithstanding the provocations of these
people, to increase and multiply them, that they had pretty near
the number to go into the land of Canaan which they had when they
came out of Egypt.
