Numbers 1:17

And Moses and Aaron took these men who were called by name.

Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

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

In Context

16These were famous men of the congregation, heads of the tribes according to their families: these are heads of thousands in Israel.

18And they assembled all the congregation on the first day of the month in the second year; and they + 1:18 ἄξονες dicebantur olim tabulae publicae; atque inde ἐπαξοοῦν, quod videtur esse, in tabulas referre. L. Bos.registered them after their lineage, after their families, after the number of their names, from twenty years old and upwards, every male according to their + 1:18 Gr. head or poll.number:

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Cross References

Numbers 1:5And these are the names of the men who shall be present with you; of the tribe of Ruben, Elisur the son of Sediur.

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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