Numbers 1:17

The Moses and Aaron tooke these men which are expressed by their names.

Geneva Bible 1599

In The King James Version

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

In Context

16These were famous in the Congregation, princes of the tribes of their fathers, and heads ouer thousands in Israel.

18And they called all the Congregation together, in the first day of the second moneth, who declared their kindreds by their families, and by the houses of their fathers, according to the nomber of their names, from twentie yere olde and aboue, man by man.

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Cross References

Numbers 1:5And these are the names of the men that shall stand with you, of the tribe of Reuben, Elizur, the sonne of Shedeur:

Revelation 7:4And I heard the number of them, which were sealed, and there were sealed an hundreth and foure and fourtie thousand of all the tribes 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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