SEV Biblia, Chapter 1:18
y juntaron a toda la congregación en el primero del mes segundo, y fueron reunidos por sus linajes, por las casas de sus padres, según la cuenta de los nombres, de veinte años arriba, por sus cabezas,
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 18. And they assembled all the congregation together on the first [day] of the second month , etc.] The month Ijar, as the Targum of Jonathan, answering to part of April and May: this was done on the selfsame day the Lord spake unto Moses about this affair, ( Numbers 1:1); so expeditious were he and Aaron in doing the will of God: and they declared their pedigrees ; either Moses and Aaron, according to Aben Ezra, who inquired when they were born, because of the computation of twenty years; and then their birth was wrote down, as he says; or rather the people declared their pedigrees, of what tribe, family, and house they were, who their parents, when born, and so, of course, how old they were; Jarchi interprets it, they brought the books of their genealogies, and witnesses to confirm the birth of everyone of them, to show their genealogy according to their tribe; nor is it at all unlikely that every family and house, or master thereof, kept a register of those born to him in it, whereby their age could be ascertained as well as pedigree: after their famines, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of their names, from twenty years old and upwards, by their poll : that is, every tribe gave an account of the families in it, every family what houses were in it, and every house what number of males were in it, and of what age; and such were numbered who were twenty years old and upward.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 1-43 - The people were numbered to show God's faithfulness in thus increasin the seed of Jacob, that they might be the better trained for the war and conquest of Canaan, and to ascertain their families in order to the division of the land. It is said of each tribe, that those wer numbered who were able to go forth to war; they had wars before them though now they met with no opposition. Let the believer be prepared to withstand the enemies of his soul, though all may appear to be peace.
Original Hebrew
ואת 853 כל 3605 העדה 5712 הקהילו 6950 באחד 259 לחדשׁ 2320 השׁני 8145 ויתילדו 3205 על 5921 משׁפחתם 4940 לבית 1004 אבתם 1 במספר 4557 שׁמות 8034 מבן 1121 עשׂרים 6242 שׁנה 8141 ומעלה 4605 לגלגלתם׃ 1538
