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Numbers 1:16-19
Living Bible
Numbers 1:16-19
Living Bible
16 These were the tribal leaders elected from among the people.
17-19 [a] On the same day Moses and Aaron and the above-named leaders summoned all the men of Israel who were twenty years old or older to come and register, each man indicating his tribe and family, as the Lord had commanded Moses.
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- Numbers 1:17 Added in the Hebrew text is this sentence: “So he numbered them in the wilderness of Sinai.”
Numbers 1:16-18
New International Version
Numbers 1:16-18
New International Version
16 These were the men appointed from the community, the leaders(A) of their ancestral tribes.(B) They were the heads of the clans of Israel.(C)
17 Moses and Aaron took these men whose names had been specified, 18 and they called the whole community together on the first day of the second month.(D) The people registered their ancestry(E) by their clans and families,(F) and the men twenty years old or more(G) were listed by name, one by one,
Numbers 1:16-18
New King James Version
Numbers 1:16-18
New King James Version
16 (A)These were (B)chosen[a] from the congregation, leaders of their fathers’ tribes, (C)heads of the divisions in Israel.
17 Then Moses and Aaron took these men who had been [b]mentioned (D)by name, 18 and they assembled all the congregation together on the first day of the second month; and they recited their (E)ancestry by families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and above, each one individually.
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- Numbers 1:16 called
- Numbers 1:17 designated
Numbers 1:16-18
English Standard Version
Numbers 1:16-18
English Standard Version
16 These were the ones (A)chosen from the congregation, (B)the chiefs of their ancestral tribes, the heads of the clans of Israel.
17 Moses and Aaron took these men (C)who had been named, 18 and on the first day of the second month, they assembled the whole congregation together, who registered themselves by clans, by fathers' houses, according to the number of names from twenty years old and upward, head by head,
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