Week 49, Day 3: Year Two

Today’s Reading:  Numbers 1:1-54

Some thoughts from the reading..

The book of Numbers begins with the Lord speaking to Moses at Mount Sinai.  It is now the beginning of the second year since Israel came up out of Egypt.  The Lord commands a census be taken of all the men of Israel who are twenty years old and older.  The Lord names twelve leaders, one from each tribe, to be a part of the census.  Israel is numbered to have 603,550 men in it.  Keep this number in mind as we follow Israel through their wilderness journey.  You have a nation moving through a wilderness.  This will not be a small endeavor to get them to their journey’s end.  Surely from man’s perspective this would be an impossible thing to do.  But as we have already seen, God is providing for and guiding them.   Although the numbers are so great, God provides for them all they need to survive in the wilderness and come to their new home.

Question:  Why do you think the Levites were exempt from the census?  Which tribe now takes their place in the census?

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