Numbers 1:2

Take the sum of all the congregation of Israel according to their kindreds, according to the houses of their fathers' families, according to their number by their names, according to their heads: every male

Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

Take ye the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel, after their families, by the house of their fathers, with the number of their names, every male by their polls;

In Context

1And the Lord spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sina, in the tabernacle of witness, on the first day of the second month, in the second year of their departure from the land of Egypt, saying,

3from twenty years old and upwards, every one that goes forth in the + 1:3 Gr. force.forces of Israel, take account of them with their strength; thou and Aaron take account of them.

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Cross References

Exodus 1:1These are the names of the sons of Israel that came into Egypt together with Jacob their father; they came in each with their whole family.

Exodus 30:12If thou take account of the children of Israel in the surveying of them, and they shall give every one a ransom for his soul to the Lord, then there shall not be among them a + 30:12 Gr. fall.destruction in the visiting of them.

Numbers 1:18And 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:

Numbers 1:22For the children of Symeon according to their kindreds, according to their divisions, according to the houses of their families, according to the number of their names, according to their polls, all males from twenty years old and upward, every one that goes out with the host,

Numbers 26:2Take the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel, from twenty years old and upward, according to the houses + 26:2 Gr. of their fathers' families.of their lineage, every one that goes forth + 26:2 Gr. to set himself in array.to battle in Israel.

Numbers 26:64And among these there was not a man numbered by Moses and Aaron, whom, even the children of Israel, they numbered in the wilderness of Sinai.

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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