Numbers 1:17

Whom Moses and Aaron took with all the multitude of the common people:

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

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

In Context

16These are the most noble princes of the multitude by their tribes and kindreds, and the chiefs of the army of Israel:

18And assembled them on the first day of the second month, reckoning them up by the kindreds, and houses, and families, and heads, and names of every one from twenty years old and upward,

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Cross References

Numbers 1:5Whose names are these: Of Ruben, Elisur the son of Sedeur.

Revelation 7:4And I heard the number of them that were signed, an hundred forty-four thousand were signed, of every tribe of the children 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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