The Connection Between Numbers of the Census and Numbers in the Ancient World

A scholar named barnuin made the intriguing suggestion that there is a connection between the numbers of the census and importantto mical numbers. Abraham was promised that his descendants would be like the stars in the heaven not merely in the sense of their number, but also in thesense of their rule. In exodus, chapter 13, verse 18, and joshua chapter one, verse 14, the text literally refers to the people entering into the promised land and leaving the land of egypt in fifties or fives.