their pedigrees: Ezra 2:59; Nehemiah 7:61; Hebrews 7:3, Hebrews 7:6 *marg.
by the: Numbers 1:2
according: Numbers 1:20-54
from twenty: In this census no women were reckoned, nor children, nor minors, nor strangers, nor Levites, nor old men; which, collectively, must have formed an immense multitude; the Levites alone amounted to 22,300 men.