Numbers 1:17

Moses and Aaron took these men who are mentioned 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 are those who were called of the congregation, the princes of the tribes of their fathers; they were the heads of the thousands of Israel.

18They assembled all the congregation together on the first day of the second month; and they declared their ancestry by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, one by one.

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Cross References

Numbers 1:5These are the names of the men who shall stand with you: Of Reuben: Elizur the son of Shedeur.

Revelation 7:4I heard the number of those who were sealed, one hundred forty-four thousand, sealed out of 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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