Numbers 1:2

1:2 “Take a census ¹  of the entire ²  Israelite community ³  by their clans and families, ⁴  counting the name of every individual male. ⁵ 

Numbers 3:22

3:22 Those of them who were numbered, counting every male from a month old and upward, were 7,500.

Numbers 3:34

3:34 Those of them who were numbered, counting every male from a month old and upward, were 6,200.

Numbers 7:15

7:15 one young bull, one ram, and one male lamb in its first year, for a burnt offering;

Numbers 7:21

7:21 one young bull, one ram, and one male lamb in its first year, for a burnt offering;

Numbers 7:27

7:27 one young bull, one ram, and one male lamb in its first year, for a burnt offering;

Numbers 7:33

7:33 one young bull, one ram, and one male lamb in its first year, for a burnt offering;

Numbers 7:39

7:39 one young bull, one ram, and one male lamb in its first year, for a burnt offering;

Numbers 7:45

7:45 one young bull, one ram, and one male lamb in its first year, for a burnt offering;

Numbers 7:51

7:51 one young bull, one ram, and one male lamb in its first year, for a burnt offering;

Numbers 7:57

7:57 one young bull, one ram, and one male lamb in its first year, for a burnt offering;

Numbers 7:63

7:63 one young bull, one ram, and one male lamb in its first year, for a burnt offering;

Numbers 7:69

7:69 one young bull, one ram, and one male lamb in its first year, for a burnt offering;

Numbers 7:75

7:75 one young bull, one ram, and one male lamb in its first year, for a burnt offering;

Numbers 7:81

7:81 one young bull, one ram, and one male lamb in its first year, for a burnt offering;

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¹ tn The construction is literally “lift up the head[s],” (שְׂאוּ אֶת־רֹאשׁ, sÿ’u ’et-ro’sh). This idiom for taking a census occurs elsewhere (Exod 30:12; Lev 5:24; Num 1:24; etc.). The idea is simply that of counting heads to arrive at the base for the standing army. This is a different event than the one recorded in Exod 30:11-16, which was taken for a different purpose altogether. The verb is plural, indicating that Moses had help in taking the census.

² tc Smr lacks the Hebrew word “all” here.

³ tn Heb “the congregation of Israel.”

⁴ tn The tribe (מַטֶּה, matteh or שֵׁבֶט, shevet) is the main category. The family groups or clans (מִשְׁפְּחֹת, mishpÿkhot) and the households or families (בֵּית אֲבֹת, bet ’avot) were sub-divisions of the tribe.

⁵ tn This clause simply has “in/with the number of the names of every male with respect to their skulls [individually].” Counting heads, or every skull, simply meant that each person was to be numbered in the census. Except for the Levites, no male was exempt from the count.