Numbers 1:3

“From twenty years old and upward, all that are able to go forth to war in Israel: thou and Aaron shall number them by their armies.”

King James Version (KJV)

Other Translations for Numbers 1:3

From twentie yeeres old and vpward, all that are able to goe foorth to warre in Israel: thou and Aaron shall number them by their armies.
- King James Version (1611) - View 1611 Bible Scan

from twenty years old and upward, whoever {is able to} go out to war in Israel, you and Aaron shall number them by their armies.
- New American Standard Version (1995)

from 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.
- American Standard Version (1901)

All those of twenty years old and over, who are able to go to war in Israel, are to be numbered by you and Aaron.
- Basic English Bible

from twenty years and upward, all that go forth to military service in Israel: ye shall number them according to their hosts, thou and Aaron.
- Darby Bible

From twenty years old and upward, all that are able to go forth to war in Israel; thou and Aaron shall number them by their armies.
- Webster's Bible

from twenty years old and upward, all who are able to go out to war in Israel. You and Aaron shall number them by their divisions.
- World English Bible

from a son of twenty years and upward, every one going out to the host in Israel, ye do number them by their hosts, thou and Aaron;
- Youngs Literal Bible

from twenty years old and upward, all that are able to go forth to war in Israel: ye shall number them by their hosts, even thou and Aaron.
- Jewish Publication Society Bible

Bible Commentary for Numbers 1:3

Wesley's Notes for Numbers 1:3


1:1 In the wilderness - Where now they had been a full year or near it, as may be gathered by comparing this place with #Exo 19:1 40:17|.

1:2 Take the sum - This is not the same muster with that #Exo 38:26|, as plainly appears, because that was before the building of the tabernacle, which was built and set up on the first day of the first month, #Exo 40:2|, but this was after it, on the first day of the second month. And they were for different ends; that was to tax them for the charges of the tabernacle; but this was for other ends, partly that the great number of the people might be known to the praise of God's faithfulness, in making good his promises of multiplying them, and to their own encouragement: partly for the better ordering their camp and march, for they were now beginning their journey; and partly that this account might he compared with the other in the close of the book, where we read that not one of all this vast number, except Caleb and Joshua were left alive; a fair warning to all future generations to take heed of rebelling against the Lord. It is true, the sums and numbers agree in this and that computation, which is not strange, because there was not much time between the two numberings, and no eminent sin among the people in that interval, whereby God was provoked to diminish their numbers. Some conceive that in that number, #Exo 30:11 |- 16 and 38:25,26, the Levites were included, which are here excepted, #Num 1:47|, and that in that interval of time, there were grown up as many more men of those years as there were Levites of the same age. Israel - So the strangers mixed with them, were not numbered. Their fathers - The people were divided into twelve tribes, the tribes into great families, #Num 26:5|, these great families into lesser families called the houses of their fathers, because they were distinguished one from another by their fathers.

1:5 Reuben - The tribes are here numbered according to the order or quality of their birth, first the children of Leah, then of Rachel, and then of the handmaids.


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