Numbers 1:1
1 God commands Moses to number the people.5 The princes of the tribes.17 The number of every tribe.47 The Levites are exempted for the service of the Lord. wilderness.10:11,12; Ex 19:1; Le 27:34tabernacle.Ex 25:22; Le 1:1on the first day.As the tabernacle was erected on the first day of the first month, in the second year of their departure from Egypt, (Ex 40:17,) and this happened on the first day of the second month, in the same year, it is evident that the transactions related in the preceding book must all have taken place in the space of one month, and during the time the Israelites were encamped at mount Sinai. 9:1; 10:11; Ex 40:17; 1Ki 6:1 1 Kings 6:37
1; 2Ch 3:2Among chronologists there is a great diversity of opinion respecting the time of the building of the temple. The Septuagint has 440 years; Glycas, 330; Josephus and Moeslinus, 592; Melchius Canus, 590; Sulpicius Severus, 588; Clemens Alexandrinus, 570; Cedrenus, 672; Codomus, 598; Vossius and Capellus, 580; Serarius, 680; Nicholas Abraham, 527; Petavius and Valtherus, 520. After all, that in the common Hebrew text is more likely to the true one, than any of the others.
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