Numbers 1:3

from twenty years old and upwards, every one able to go forth to war in Israel,—ye shall number them by their hosts, thou and Aaron;

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

In The King James Version

From twenty years old and upward, all that are able to go forth to war in Israel: thou and Aaron shall number them by their armies.

In Context

2Reckon ye up the sum of all the assembly of the sons of Israel, by their families by their ancestral houses,—in the counting of names, every male, by their polls;

4and with you, shall be one man for each tribe,—each man, head of his ancestral house, shall be.

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Cross References

Exodus 12:17So then ye shall observe the unleavened cakes, because on this self-same day, brought I forth your hosts out of the land of Egypt,—so then ye shall observe this day to your generations, as a statute age-abiding,

Numbers 3:15Number thou the sons of Levi, by their ancestral houses, by their families,—every male, from one month old and upwards, shalt thou number them.

Numbers 14:29In this desert, shall your dead bodies fall And none of you who were numbered in all your counting, from twenty years old and upwards,—who have murmured against me,

Numbers 32:11Surely none of the men that came up out of Egypt from twenty years old and upwards, shall see the soil, which I sware unto Abraham, unto Isaac and unto Jacob, because they have not followed after me fully;

Deuteronomy 3:18So I commanded you, at that time saying,—Yahweh your God hath given unto you this land to possess it, armed, shall ye pass over before your brethren the sons of Israel all the sons of valour,

2 Samuel 24:9And Joab delivered up the sum of the number of the people, unto the king,—and there were found to be, in Israel, eight hundred thousand men of valour, drawing the sword,—and, the men of Judah, five hundred thousand men.

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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