Numbers 1:5
Whose names are these: Of Ruben, Elisur the son of Sedeur.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
4And there shall be with you the princes of the tribes, and of the houses in their kindreds,
6Of Simeon, Salamiel the son of Surisaddai.
Cross References
Genesis 29:32And she conceived and bore a son, and called his name Ruben, saying: The Lord saw my affliction: now my husband will love me.
Genesis 35:17By reason of her hard labor she began to be in danger, and the midwife said to her: Fear not, for thou shalt have this son also.
Genesis 35:23The sons of Lia: Ruben the firstborn, and Simeon, and Levi, and Juda, and Issachar, and Zebulon.
Genesis 49:1And Jacob called his sons, and said to them: Gather yourselves together that I may tell you the things that shall befall you in the last days.
Numbers 2:3On the east Juda shall pitch his tents by the bands of his army: and the prince of his sons shall be Nahasson the son of Aminadab.
Numbers 7:12And the Lord said to Moses: Let each of the princes one day after another offer their gifts for the dedication of the altar.
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 →