Numbers 1:3

from a son of twenty years and upward, everyone going out to the host in Israel, you number them by their hosts, you and Aaron;

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

From twenty years old and upward, all that are able to go forth to war in Israel: thou and Aaron shall number them by their armies.

In Context

2“Take a census of all the congregation of the sons of Israel by their families, by the house of their fathers, in the number of names—every male by their counted heads;

4and with you there is a man for a tribe, each is a head of the house of his fathers.

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Cross References

Exodus 12:17and you have observed the Unleavened Things, for in this very day I have brought out your hosts from the land of Egypt, and you have observed this day throughout your generations—a continuous statute.

Numbers 3:15“Number the sons of Levi by the house of their fathers, by their families; every male from a son of a month and upward—you number them.”

Numbers 14:29Your carcasses fall in this wilderness, even all your numbered ones, to all your number, from a son of twenty years and upward, who have murmured against Me;

Numbers 32:11They do not see—the men who are coming up out of Egypt from a son of twenty years and upward—the ground which I have sworn to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, for they have not been fully after Me,

Deuteronomy 3:18And at that time I command you, saying, Your God YHWH has given this land to you to possess it; you pass over armed before your brothers the sons of Israel, all the sons of might.

2 Samuel 24:9and Joab gives the account of the inspection of the people to the king, and Israel is eight hundred thousand men of valor, drawing sword, and the men of Judah five hundred thousand men.

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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