Numbers 1:3
From a son of twenty years and upwards, everyone who can go forth to war in Israel, thou and Aharon number them by their hosts.
Targum Onkelos
In The King James Version
In Context
4And with you let there be a man of each tribe, a man who is chief of the house of his fathers.
Cross References
Exodus 12:17And you shall keep the (feast of the) Unleavened; for on this very day shall I have brought your hosts out of the land of Mizraim, and you shall keep this day to all your generations forever.
Numbers 3:15Number the sons of Levi, after the house of their fathers, by their families; every male from a month old and upward shalt thou number them.
Numbers 14:29In this wilderness shall your carcases fall, and all who are numbered of you, of all your numbers, from one of twenty years and upward who have murmured against me.
Numbers 32:11If the men who have come out of Mizraim, from twenty years old and upward, shall see the land which I covenanted to Abraham, to Izhak, and to Jakob; for they have not been wholly after my fear.
Deuteronomy 3:18And I instructed you at that time, saying: The Lord your God hath given you this land to possess it; you shall pass over armed before your brethren the sons of Israel, all armed for the host.
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 →