61 - Census

Chareen's Thoughts

• Today is the start of the third month on our journey through the Word of our Lord.  I have enjoyed the last two months and hope you will be blessed over the next month with us too.
• In yesterday's reading we met Balaam and the king of  Moab who wanted Balaam to curse Israel but the Lord gave him a blessing to pronounce three times. 
• Today we read the Poem / Prophecy of destruction over Moab and Edom and Amalek.
• While in the plains near Moab some Israelites started worshiping Baal and the Lord commanded Moses to execute them in front of Israel.
• After this execution one man still brazenly took a midianite for a wife and in front of the assembly took her home. Then Phinehas killed the two of them.  Because of this act the Lord stopped allowing the Israelites dying [24,000 had died so far.] and placed a perpetual blessing on his home. (Numbers 25:6-18 & Psalm 106:28-31)
• The Lord required a census. There total number of men 20 years and older were: 601,730 In the tribe of Levi there were 23,000 males one month old and older.
  
  

  First Census		Second Census
  		Reubin	43,730
  Simeon	59,300	Simeon	22,200
  Gad	45,650	Gad	40,500
  Judah	79,600	Judah	76,500
  Issachar	54,400	Issachar	64,300
  Zebulun	57,400	Zebulun	60,500
  Ephraim	40,500	Ephraim	32,500
  Manasseh	32,400	Manasseh	52,700
  Benjamin	35,400	Benjamin	45,600
  Dan	62,700	Dan	64,400
  Asher	41,500	Asher	53,400
  		Naphtali	45,400
  Total Registered:	603,550	Total Registered:	601,730
  Levites	22,000	Levites	23,000

  
  
• After the census was taken the people realise that not one person from the previous generation was alive accept Joshua and Caleb. 603 548 males alone had died in the wilderness.
•  The Lord instructed the Israelites on how to divide the land and gave them the inheritance laws.

 Blessings
Chareen