Today, I am reading and commenting on  Numbers 3-4.

Having conducted a census of all of the tribes of Israel, except the Levites, where he recorded the names of all of the men over the age of 20, Moses conducted a separate census of the males of the tribe of Levi.  However, for this census, Moses counted the males a month and older, recording their numbers according to their clan membership.  When this count was completed, Moses also counted the firstborn males of the entire people of Israel a month and older.  The Levites were dedicated to God’s service in place of the firstborn sons of the rest of Israel, whose lives had been spared when God struck down the firstborn of Egypt.  The census of the other tribes formed the basis of the Israelite army.  The census of the Levites was not conducted to identify the number of workers, since only those from thirty to fifty years of age worked in and around the Tabernacle.

I use the daily Bible reading schedule from “The Bible.net” for my daily Bible reading.