Numbers 1:17

whiche pryncis Moises and Aaron token, with al the multitude of the comyn puple.

Wycliffe (portions)

In The King James Version

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

In Context

16These weren the noblest princes of the multitude, bi her lynagis, and kynredis, and the heedis of the oost of Israel,

18And thei gaderiden in the firste dai of the secounde monethe, and telden hem bi kynredis, and housis, and meynees, and heedis, and names of alle by hem silf, fro the twentithe yeer and aboue,

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Cross References

Numbers 1:5of whiche princes these ben the names; of Ruben, Elisur, the sone of Sedeur;

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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