Numbers 1:17

So then Moses and Aaron took these men, who were distinguished by name;

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

In The King James Version

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

In Context

16These, are they who had been summoned by the assembly, being princes of the tribes of their fathers,—heads of the thousands of Israel.

18all the assembly also, called they together on the first of the second month,—and they declared their pedigree according to their families by their ancestral houses,—in the counting of names from twenty years old and upwards by their polls.

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Cross References

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

Revelation 7:4And I heard the number of the sealed,—a hundred and forty-four thousand,—sealed out of every tribe of the sons 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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