Exodus 38:26 - Exposition

A bekah for every man . Literally, "for every head." From twenty years old and upward . Compare Numbers 1:3 , Numbers 1:22 , etc . Six hundred thousand , etc. It is remarkable that this number agrees exactly with the sum total of the numbering in Numbers 2:32 , which took place about six months later, and was exclusive of 22,000 Levites. Perhaps the number was lost in this place, and restored from Numbers 2:32 , without its being recollected that the Levites were not included in that reckoning.