Numbers 1:23
What does Numbers 1:23 mean?
A plain-English look at Numbers 1:23 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000those that were numbered of them, of the tribe of Simeon, were fifty and nine thousand and three hundred.
KJV
King James Version · 1611Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Simeon, were fifty and nine thousand and three hundred.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901those that were numbered of them, of the tribe of Simeon, were fifty and nine thousand and three hundred.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949Fifty-nine thousand, three hundred of the tribe of Simeon were numbered.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862their numbered ones, for the tribe of Simeon, <FI>are<Fi> nine and fifty thousand and three hundred.
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752Fifty-nine thousand three hundred.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890those that were numbered of them, of the tribe of Simeon, were fifty-nine thousand three hundred.
Context
v.22Of 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;
v.23This passage
v.24Of the children of Gad, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Numbers 25:14
Now the name of the man of Israel that was slain, who was slain with the Midianitish woman, was Zimri, the son of Salu, a prince of a fathers’ house among the Simeonites.
- Numbers 25:8
and he went after the man of Israel into the pavilion, and thrust both of them through, the man of Israel, and the woman through her body. So the plague was stayed from the children of Israel.
- Numbers 26:14
These are the families of the Simeonites, twenty and two thousand and two hundred.
- Numbers 2:13
And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were fifty and nine thousand and three hundred.
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