I’m not sure what this has to do with the book of Numbers, but I do think God wanted to count the Levites in the nation of Israel apart from the first census (chapter 1). This chapter is found in pages 78-79 of the NKJV Bible I have for this, pages 100-101 of the NASB Bible (Old Testament, 1995 version), pages 162-163 of my VOICE copy, and pages 162-164 of my Amplified Bible (Classic Edition) copy.
I love how over 22,000 Levites are counted here (inckusing the firstborn males, verse 43), but I think God knew about the ladies among them, so that He’d keep them in mind despite the chauvinistic world it was back then (and apparently still is). Indeed, earlier in the book, over 600,000 men at least 20 years old had been numbered (I’m not really sure why this is in the Bible… it’s like a nation’s designated census like what I did in 2020, I guess), and I believe many others were with them, so that there’d be at least two million people, evident by the next census in chapter 26. Thank God each human being is counted in many countries’ censuses nowadays, for marking everyone on Earth with His benevolence is what He had in mind from the beginning, just as Jesus had said that divorce wasn’t what He had in mind from the beginning (read Matthew 19:1-9 for the full story).
I honestly don’t have much to say on this, so I hope we can get to the next chapter soon. In the meantime, I guess we should remember that service done to the Lord God is never forgotten if it’s by His Holy Spirit (whether by a commoner or a priest, such as one of the Levites, for some actually become Christian in Acts 6:7), but spoiler alert: Israel’s men and women are replaced between here and chapter 21 when they set out again to travel to Canaan. Regardless, I’ll see you in the next chapter!
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