“And they assembled all the congregation together on the first day of the second month, and they declared their pedigrees after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, by their polls.”
And they assembled all the congregation together on the first day of the second month — the gathering of the entire people for census-taking emphasizes collective participation in the divine organizational work. The specific date (the first of the second month, Iyar) situates the census in the liturgical calendar, one month after Passover, when Israel's liberation from Egypt is celebrated and their transformation into a military nation is formalized.
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