Day 62, March 3 Bible Reading


Day 62,  March 3

Num. 9:1-14  The second Passover

Num. 1-2    The first Israelite census / Arrangement of the tribes in camp








Num. 9:1-14  The second Passover

  • Num 9:1-14 So we know all about the first Passover to be celebrated on the 14th of then first month.  Here is a remarkable story about certain men who could not have kept the Passover because they were made unclean by a dead body.  They had a good question. Why must we really be kept from participating in the Passover? Moses instead of dismissing their requests, sought God.  Remarkably, God adjusted the law to accommodate them and instituted a second Passover a month later.  You have to have a legitimate reason, so you can’t abuse it.  If someone is clean and is not on a journey and you do not keep the first passover, you are to die.


Num. 1-2    The first Israelite census / Arrangement of the tribes in camp

  • Num 1:1-4 It is the first day of the second month in the second year after they left Egypt.  They are still at Sinai.  God wanted to do a census of all men over 20 years old, for consignment to the army.

  • Num 1:5-46

    • Reuben -- 46,500

    • Simeon -- 59,300

    • Gad -- 45,650

    • Judah -- 74,600

    • Issachar -- 54,400

    • Zebulun -- 57,400

    • Ephraim -- 40,500

    • Manasseh -- 32,200

    • Benjamin -- 35,400

    • Dan -- 62,700

    • Asher -- 41,500

    • Naphtali -- 53,400

    • Total men of war age -- 603,550

  • Num 1:47-54 Levites were not numbered because they take care of the Tabernacle.  They are to take it down and set it up. No outsider can come near, else be put to death.  The Levites should camp around the Tabernacle and the children of Israel camp around the Tabernacle based on their flag and their armies.



  • Num 2: Instead of commenting I would present graphically exactly how the Tribes of Israel camped around the Tabernacle.

  • Notice the standards, or banners, they had. What did those mean?

  • Remember the four living creatures in Ezekiel?  “As for the likeness of their faces, each had a human face [South]. The four had the face of a lion on the right side [Judah], the four had the face of an ox on the left side [Ephraim], and the four had the face of an eagle [Dan]” (Ez. 1:10). 

  • You can also also say based on the numbers, that it also forms a cross.

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