Numeri 26:2

2 Nehmet auf die Summe der ganzen Gemeinde der Kinder Israel, von zwanzig Jahren und darüber, nach ihren Vaterhäusern, einen jeden, der zum Heere auszieht in Israel.

Numeri 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.

Numeri 26:2 In-Context

1 Und es geschah nach der Plage, da sprach Jehova zu Mose und zu Eleasar, dem Sohne Aarons, dem Priester, und sagte:

2 Nehmet auf die Summe der ganzen Gemeinde der Kinder Israel, von zwanzig Jahren und darüber, nach ihren Vaterhäusern, einen jeden, der zum Heere auszieht in Israel.

3 Und Mose und Eleasar, der Priester, redeten zu ihnen in den Ebenen Moabs, am Jordan von Jericho, und sprachen:

4 Von zwanzig Jahren und darüber...,so wie Jehova dem Mose geboten hatte. Und es waren die Kinder Israel, die aus dem Lande Ägypten ausgezogen waren:

5 Ruben, der Erstgeborene Israels; die Söhne Rubens: von Hanok das Geschlecht der Hanokiter; von Pallu das Geschlecht der Palluiter;