Numbers 1:3
Those aged twenty or older who can do military service are to be registered by you and Aaron in their Israelite army divisions.
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
In Context
4A representative from each tribe, the head of a family, must be there with you.
Cross References
Exodus 12:17You are to keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread because on this very day I led your tribes by their respective divisions out of Egypt. You are to observe this day for all time to come.
Numbers 3:15“Register the Levites by their father's line and family. Count every male aged one month or older.”
Numbers 14:29All of you will die in this desert, everyone who was registered in the census that counted those aged twenty or over, because you made complaints against me.
Numbers 32:11‘Not a single one of those I saved from Egypt who is twenty years old or older will ever see the land I promised with an oath to give to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, because they were not completely committed to me—
Deuteronomy 3:18This was when I gave you these instructions: “The Lord your God has given you this country as yours to own. All your warriors are to cross over, ready for battle, leading your fellow Israelites.
2 Samuel 24:9Joab reported to the king the number of people that had been counted. In Israel there were 800,000 fighting men who could use the sword, and in Judah there were 500,000.
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 →