The Two Censuses in Numbers

The following table provides some detail:

Tribe Num 1 Num 26 Change
Reuben 46,500 43,730 -2,770
Simeon 59,300 22,200 -37,100
Gad 45,650 40,500 -5,150
Judah 74,600 76,500 1,900
Issachar 54,400 64,300 9,900
Zebulun 57,400 60,500 3,100
Manasseh 32,200 52,700 20,500
Ephraim 40,500 32,500 -8,000
Benjamin 35,400 45,600 10,200
Dan 62,700 64,400 1,700
Asher 41,500 53,400 11,900
Naphtali 53,400 45,400 -8,000
Total 603,550 601,730 -1,820

The First Census for Warfare:

Numbers 1:1 Now the LORD spoke to Moses in the Wilderness of Sinai, in the tabernacle of meeting, on the first day of the second month, in the second year after they had come out of the land of Egypt, saying: 2 “Take a census of all the congregation of the children of Israel, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of names, every male individually, 3 from twenty years old and above—all who are able to go to war in Israel. You and Aaron shall number them by their armies. 4 And with you there shall be a man from every tribe, each one the head of his father’s house.

The Second Census for Warfare and Inheritance:

Numbers 26:1 And it came to pass, after the plague, that the LORD spoke to Moses and Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, saying: 2 “Take a census of all the congregation of the children of Israel from twenty years old and above, by their fathers’ houses, all who are able to go to war in Israel.”

51 These are those who were numbered of the children of Israel: six hundred and one thousand seven hundred and thirty.

52 Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying: 53 “To these the land shall be divided as an inheritance, according to the number of names. 54 To a large tribe you shall give a larger inheritance, and to a small tribe you shall give a smaller inheritance. Each shall be given its inheritance according to those who were numbered of them.

When Our Heavenly Father provides us with specific numbers such as 1,820, we can expect a revelation of the relevance of that number.

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