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The count included males from twenty years old and upward. The stated purpose was to number those able to go to war in Israel. See Numbers 1:2–3.
2Take the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel, by their families, by their fathers` houses, according to the number of the names, every male, by their polls;
3from twenty years old and upward, all who are able to go forth to war in Israel, you and Aaron shall number them by their hosts.