Numbers 1:17

Moses and Aaron took these, with all the multitude of the common people,

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In The King James Version

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

In Context

16These are the very noble leaders of the multitude, by their tribes and kinships, and the heads of the army of Israel.

18and they gathered them together on the first day of the second month, taking a census of them by kinships, and houses, and families, and heads, and the names of each one from twenty years and above,

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Cross References

Numbers 1:5the names of whom are these: of Ruben, Elizur the son of Shedeur;

Revelation 7:4And I heard the number of those who were sealed: one hundred and forty-four thousand sealed, out of every tribe of the sons 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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