Numbers 7:2
What does Numbers 7:2 mean?
A plain-English look at Numbers 7:2 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000that the princes of Israel, the heads of their fathers’ houses, offered. These were the princes of the tribes, these are they that were over them that were numbered:
KJV
King James Version · 1611That the princes of Israel, heads of the house of their fathers, who were the princes of the tribes, and were over them that were numbered, offered:
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901that the princes of Israel, the heads of their fathers’ houses, offered. These were the princes of the tribes, these are they that were over them that were numbered:
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949Then the chiefs of Israel, the heads of their fathers' houses, made offerings; these were the chiefs of the tribes, who were over those who were numbered.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862and the princes of Israel (heads of the house of their fathers, they <FI>are<Fi> princes of the tribes, they who are standing over those numbered) bring near,
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752The princes of Israel and the heads of the families, in every tribe, who were the rulers of them who had been numbered, offered
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890that the princes of Israel, the heads of their fathers' houses, the princes of the tribes, they that were over them that had been numbered, offered;
Context
v.1And it came to pass on the day that Moses had made an end of setting up the tabernacle, and had anointed it and sanctified it, and all the furniture thereof, and the altar and all the vessels thereof, and had anointed them and sanctified them;
v.2This passage
v.3and they brought their oblation before Jehovah, six covered wagons, and twelve oxen; a wagon for every two of the princes, and for each one an ox: and they presented them before the tabernacle.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Numbers 2:1
And Jehovah spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,
- Numbers 1:4
And with you there shall be a man of every tribe; every one head of his fathers’ house.
- Ezra 2:68
And some of the heads of fathers’ houses, when they came to the house of Jehovah which is in Jerusalem, offered willingly for the house of God to set it up in its place:
- Numbers 10:1
And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,
- 1 Chronicles 29:6
Then the princes of the fathers’houses, and the princes of the tribes of Israel, and the captains of thousands and of hundreds, with the rulers over the king’s work, offered willingly;
- Nehemiah 7:70
And some from among the heads of fathers’ houses gave unto the work. The governor gave to the treasury a thousand darics of gold, fifty basins, five hundred and thirty priests’ garments.
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