Numbers 1:17

And Moses and Aaron took these men, marked out by name;

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And Moses and Aaron took these men which are expressed by their names:

In Context

16These are the men named out of all the people, chiefs of their fathers' houses, heads of the tribes of Israel.

18And they got together all the people on the first day of the second month; and everyone made clear his family and his father's house, by the number of the names, from twenty years old and over.

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Cross References

Numbers 1:5These are the names of those who are to be your helpers: from Reuben, Elizur, the son of Shedeur;

Revelation 7:4And there came to my ears the number of those who had the mark on their brows, a hundred and forty-four thousand, who were marked out of every tribe of the people of Israel.

Matthew Henry on Numbers 1:2-17

Numbers The titles of the five books of Moses, which we use in our Bibles, are all borrowed from the Greek translation of the Seventy, the most ancient version of the Old Testament that we know of. But the title of this book only we turn into English; in all the rest we retain the Greek word itself, for which difference I know no reason but that the Latin translators have generally done the same. Otherwise this book might as well have been called Arithmoi, the Greek title, as the first Genesis, and the second… Read the whole commentary →

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