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Numbers 1:18

in Numbers 1

and on the first day of the second month they assembled the whole congregation and recorded their ancestry by clans and families, counting one by one the names of those twenty years of age or older,

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

and 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.

KJV

And they assembled all the congregation together on the first day of the second month, and they declared their pedigrees after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, by their polls.

This verse in Numbers 1

Commentary

4 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

Moses and Aaron took these men

on Numbers 1:17-19

The people “recorded their ancestry by clans and families”, so the count rests on registers already kept. Ezra 2:62 and Nehemiah 7:64 show men excluded from the priesthood when they could not find theirs.

This site's exposition

on the first day of the second month

Matthew Henry reckons the count a single day's work, and John Wesley reads the text the same way. Henry thinks the records of the half-shekel count, taken a little before, made the work quick. Each man's descent was entered with his name.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

And they assembled all the congregation together on the first day of the second month,....

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

proposed

These were the renowned--literally, "the called" of the congregation, summoned by name; and they entered upon the survey the very day the order was given.

The words behind it

19 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וְאֵ֨תand <obj.>

    veetH853 →10935 times

  • כָּל־all

    kol-H3605 →5413 times

  • הָעֵדָ֜הthe congregation

    haedahH5712 →149 times

  • הִקְהִ֗ילוּthey summoned

    hikhiluH6950 →39 times

  • בְּאֶחָד֙on [day] one

    beechadH259 →971 times

  • לַחֹ֣דֶשׁof the month

    lachodeshH2320 →284 times

  • הַשֵּׁנִ֔י<the> second

    hasheniH8145 →156 times

  • וַיִּתְיַֽלְד֥וּand they recorded their ancestry

    vaiyityalduH3205 →496 times

  • עַל־on

    ʾal-H5921 →5755 times

  • מִשְׁפְּחֹתָ֖םclans their

    mishpechotamH4940 →303 times

  • לְבֵ֣יתto [the] house of

    leveitH1004 →2046 times

  • אֲבֹתָ֑םancestors their

    ʾavotamH1 →1212 times

  • בְּמִסְפַּ֣רby [the] number of

    bemisparH4557 →134 times

  • שֵׁמ֗וֹתnames

    shemotH8034 →864 times

  • מִבֶּ֨ןfrom a son of

    mibenH1121 →4930 times

  • עֶשְׂרִ֥יםtwenty

    ʾesrimH6242 →315 times

  • שָׁנָ֛הyear[s]

    shanahH8141 →877 times

  • וָמַ֖עְלָהand up -wards

    vama'lahH4605 →140 times

  • לְגֻלְגְּלֹתָֽם׃to heads their

    legulgelotamH1538 →12 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Hebrews 7:6

    But Melchizedek, who did not trace his descent from Levi, collected a tenth from Abraham and blessed him who had the promises.

    it leads to

    • Romans 4:13

      For the promise to Abraham and his offspring that he would be heir of the world was not given through the law, but through the righteousness that comes by faith.

    • Hebrews 7:3–4

      Without father or mother or genealogy, without beginning of days or end of life, like the Son of God, he remains a priest for all time.

  • Through

    Hebrews 7:3

    Without father or mother or genealogy, without beginning of days or end of life, like the Son of God, he remains a priest for all time.

    it leads to

    • Hebrews 7:17

      For it is testified: “You are a priest forever in the order of Melchizedek.”

    • Exodus 6:20–27

      And Amram married his father’s sister Jochebed, and she bore him Aaron and Moses. Amram lived 137 years.

    • Hebrews 7:23–28

      Now there have been many other priests, since death prevented them from continuing in office.

    • Hebrews 7:6

      But Melchizedek, who did not trace his descent from Levi, collected a tenth from Abraham and blessed him who had the promises.

    • Matthew 4:3

      The tempter came to Him and said, “If You are the Son of God, tell these stones to become bread.”

  • Through

    Nehemiah 7:61

    The following came up from Tel-melah, Tel-harsha, Cherub, Addon, and Immer, but could not prove that their families were descended from Israel:

    it leads to

    • Ezra 2:59

      The following came up from Tel-melah, Tel-harsha, Cherub, Addan, and Immer, but could not prove that their families were descended from Israel:

Where this verse is studied

About Numbers

The Brazen Serpent, Anthony van Dyck, 1618 to 1620. Public domain.
The Brazen Serpent, Anthony van Dyck, 1618 to 1620. Public domain.

This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.