Numbers 1:17

And Moses and Aaron took these men who are expressed by their names,

Darby Translation

In The King James Version

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

In Context

16These were those summoned of the assembly, princes of the tribes of their fathers, the heads of the thousands of Israel.

18and gathered the whole assembly together on the first of the second month. And they declared their pedigrees after their families, according to their fathers' houses, by the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, according to their polls.

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Cross References

Numbers 1:5And these are the names of the men that shall stand with you: for Reuben, Elizur the son of Shedeur;

Revelation 7:4And I heard the number of the sealed, a 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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