Numbers 1:17

So Moses and Aaron took these men who had been designated by name,

Berean Standard Bible

In The King James Version

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

In Context

16These men were appointed from the congregation; they were the leaders of the tribes of their fathers, the heads of the clans of Israel.

18and on the first day of the second month they assembled the whole congregation and recorded their ancestry by clans and families, counting one by one the names of those twenty years of age or older,

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Cross References

Numbers 1:5These are the names of the men who are to assist you: From the tribe of Reuben, Elizur son of Shedeur;

Revelation 7:4And I heard the number of those who were sealed, 144,000 from all the tribes 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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