Numbers 1:17

Moses and Aaron summoned these men who had been selected by name.

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In The King James Version

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

In Context

16These were the men chosen from the Israelite community. They were the leaders of their fathers' tribes; the heads of the families of Israel.

18They had all the Israelites gather together on the first day of the second month, and recorded the people's genealogy according to their tribe and family, and counted up the names of all those aged twenty or older,

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Cross References

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

Revelation 7:4I was told the number of those who were sealed: one hundred and forty-four thousand. Those who were sealed came from 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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