The Book of Numbers
Censuses in ancient Israel
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Number of Israelite males over 20 years old (excluding the Levites) counted in Moses’ first census, taken one year after leaving Egypt on the Exodus. |
603,550 (Numbers 1:46; Exodus 38:26)
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Number of Levites at least one month old counted in Moses’ first census. |
22,000 (Numbers 3:39)
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Total number of Israelites counted in Moses’ first census. |
625,550
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Result of Moses second census, taken shortly before the entry into Canaan, after 24,000 had died of a plague (Numbers 25:9). |
601,730 (Numbers 26:51)
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Tally of Israel’s “men who drew the sword” counted in King David’s first census. |
800,000 (2 Samuel 24:9)
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Tally of Judah’s men counted in King David’s first census. |
500,000 (2 Samuel 24:9)
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Total of King David’s first census. |
1,300,000
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Number of Israel’s “men who drew the sword” (excluding the tribes of Levi and Benjamin) counted in King David’s second census. |
1,100,000 (1 Chronicles 21:5)
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Number of Judah’s “men who drew the sword” (excluding the tribes of Levi and Benjamin) counted in King David’s second census. |
470,000 (1 Chronicles 21:5)
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Total of King David’s second census. |
1,570,000
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Number counted in Solomon’s census of foreigners in the kingdom. |
153,600 (2 Chronicles 2:17)
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Number of people counted in the census taken after the return from the Exile. |
42,360 (Ezra 2:64)
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Number of servants and singers counted in the census taken after the return from the Exile. |
7,537 (Ezra 2:65)
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Sum of the census taken after the return from the Exile. |
49,897
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Prepared by From Slattery, a BR reader in Torrance, California.