Números 26:2

2 Tomad la suma de toda la congregación de los hijos de Israel, de veinte años arriba, por las casas de sus padres, a todos los que puedan salir a la guerra 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 Y aconteció después de la mortandad, que el SEÑOR habló a Moisés, y a Eleazar hijo del sacerdote Aarón, diciendo:

2 Tomad la suma de toda la congregación de los hijos de Israel, de veinte años arriba, por las casas de sus padres, a todos los que puedan salir a la guerra en Israel.

3 Y Moisés y Eleazar el sacerdote hablaron con ellos en los campos de Moab, junto al Jordán de Jericó, diciendo:

4 Contaréis el pueblo de veinte años arriba, como mandó el SEÑOR a Moisés y a los hijos de Israel, que habían salido de tierra de Egipto.

5 Rubén, primogénito de Israel; los hijos de Rubén: Enoc, del cual era la familia de los enoquitas; de Falú, la familia de los faluitas;