Numbers 1:2
What does Numbers 1:2 mean?
A plain-English look at Numbers 1:2 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000Take ye the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, every male, by their polls;
KJV
King James Version · 1611Take ye the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel, after their families, by the house of their fathers, with the number of their names, every male by their polls;
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901Take ye the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, every male, by their polls;
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949Take the full number of the children of Israel, by their families, and by their fathers' houses, every male by name;
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862`Take ye up the sum of all the company of the sons of Israel by their families, by the house of their fathers, in the number of names--every male by their polls;
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752Take the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel by their families, and houses, and the names of every one, as many as are of the male sex,
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890Take the sum of the whole assembly of the children of Israel, after their families, according to their fathers' houses, by the number of the names, every male, according to their polls;
Context
v.1And Jehovah spake unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the tent of meeting, on the first day of the second month, in the second year after they were come out of the land of Egypt, saying,
v.2This passage
v.3from twenty years old and upward, all that are able to go forth to war in Israel, thou and Aaron shall number them by their hosts.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- 1 Chronicles 27:23
But David took not the number of them from twenty years old and under, because Jehovah had said he would increase Israel like to the stars of heaven.
- Exodus 1:1
Now these are the names of the sons of Israel, who came into Egypt (every man and his household came with Jacob):
- Numbers 1:22
Of the children of Simeon, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, those that were numbered thereof, according to the number of the names, by their polls, every male from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;
- Genesis 49:1
And Jacob called unto his sons, and said: Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you that which shall befall you in the latter days.
- Numbers 26:63
These are they that were numbered by Moses and Eleazar the priest, who numbered the children of Israel in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho.
- Numbers 26:2
Take the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel, from twenty years old and upward, by their fathers’ houses, all that are able to go forth to war in Israel.
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