Numbers 1:17

the which princes Moses and Aaron took, with all the multitude of the common people. (which leaders Moses and Aaron took, along with all the multitude of the common people.)

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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 were the noblest princes of the multitude, by their lineages, and kindreds, and the heads of the host (s) of Israel, (These were the noblest leaders of the multitude, by their tribes, and kindreds, and the heads of the armies of Israel,)

18And they gathered (them together) in the first day of the second month, and they told them, ( or and they totalled them), by kindreds, and houses, and families, and heads, and names of each by themselves, from the twentieth year and above, (And they gathered them together on the first day of the second month, and they listed, or they registered, them by their kindreds, and houses, and families, and heads, and their names, from twenty years of age and older,)

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Cross References

Numbers 1:5of which princes, these be the names, (or of which leaders, these be the names); of Reuben, Elizur, the son of Shedeur;

Revelation 7:4And I heard the number of men that were marked, an hundred thousand and four and forty thousand marked, of every lineage of the sons of Israel; (And I heard that the number of men who were sealed, were a hundred and forty-four thousand, from every tribe of the Israelites;)

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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