Numbers 1:17

And Moses taketh — Aaron also — these men, who were defined by name,

Young's Literal Translation

In The King James Version

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

In Context

16These [are] those called of the company, princes of the tribes of their fathers; they [are] heads of the thousands of Israel.

18and all the company they assembled on the first of the second month, and they declare their births, by their families, by the house of their fathers, in the number of names from a son of twenty years and upward, by their polls,

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Cross References

Numbers 1:5'And these [are] the names of the men who stand with you: 'For Reuben — Elizur son of Shedeur.

Revelation 7:4And I heard the number of those sealed, (one hundred and forty four thousands were sealed out of all the tribes 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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