Numbers 1:17
What does Numbers 1:17 mean?
A plain-English look at Numbers 1:17 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000And Moses and Aaron took these men that are mentioned by name:
KJV
King James Version · 1611And Moses and Aaron took these men which are expressed by their names:
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901And Moses and Aaron took these men that are mentioned by name:
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949And Moses and Aaron took these men, marked out by name;
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862And Moses taketh--Aaron also--these men, who were defined by name,
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752Whom Moses and Aaron took with all the multitude of the common people:
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890And Moses and Aaron took these men who are expressed by their names,
Context
v.16These are they that were called of the congregation, the princes of the tribes of their fathers; they were the heads of the thousands of Israel.
v.17This passage
v.18and they assembled all the congregation together on the first day of the second month; and they declared their pedigrees after their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, by their polls.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- John 10:3
To him the porter openeth; and the sheep hear his voice: and he calleth his own sheep by name, and leadeth them out.
- Revelation 7:4
And I heard the number of them that were sealed, a hundred and forty and four thousand, sealed out of every tribe of the children of Israel:
- Numbers 1:5
And these are the names of the men that shall stand with you. Of Reuben: Elizur the son of Shedeur.
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