1. Numbers 1:54 (ESV)
  2. Exposition

What is the significance of the concluding statement that Israel did according to all that the LORD commanded?

Numbers 1:54 (ESV)

54 Thus did the people of Israel; they did according to all that the LORD commanded Moses.

Israel’s obedience is the hallmark of their attitude at Mount Sinai (Numbers 1:1–10:101). It is against this background that their disobedience becomes all the more devastating to the reader.