Numbers 1:3 BSB — MannaFest

Numbers 1:3

You and Aaron are to number those who are twenty years of age or older by their divisions—everyone who can serve in Israel’s army.

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ASV

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.

KJV

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.

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Commentary

2 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

From twenty years old and upward - In this census no women were reckoned, nor children, nor strangers, nor the Levites, nor old men, which, collectively, must have formed an immense multitude; the Levites alone amounted to 22,300. True-born Israelites only are reckoned; such as were able to carry arms, and were expert for war.

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The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

Aaron shall number them by their armies--or companies. In their departure from Egypt they were divided into five grand companies (Ex 13:18), but from the sojourn in the wilderness to the passage of the Jordan, they were formed into four great divisions. The latter is here referred to.

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Original language & word study

13 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
מִבֶּ֨ן	mi.Ben	from a son of	H1121 →
עֶשְׂרִ֤ים	'es.Rim	twenty	H6242 →
שָׁנָה֙	sha.Nah	year[s]	H8141 →
וָמַ֔עְלָה	va.Ma'.lah	and up -wards	H4605 →
כָּל־	kol-	every	H3605 →
יֹצֵ֥א	yo.Tze'	[one who] goes forth	H3318 →
צָבָ֖א	tza.Va'	warfare	H6635 →
בְּיִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל	be.Yis.ra.'El	in Israel	H3478 →
תִּפְקְד֥וּ	tif.ke.Du	you will enroll	H6485 →
אֹתָ֛ם	'o.Tam	<obj.> them	H853 →
לְצִבְאֹתָ֖ם	le.tziv.'o.Tam	to military groups their	H6635 →
אַתָּ֥ה	'a.Tah	you	H859 →
וְאַהֲרֹֽן׃	ve.'a.ha.Ron	and Aaron	H175 →

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Numbers 14:29
Your bodies will fall in this wilderness—all who were numbered in the census, everyone twenty years of age or older—because you have grumbled against Me.
leads to
- Numbers 1:45
  So all the Israelites twenty years of age or older who could serve in Israel’s army were counted according to their families.
- Numbers 26:64
  Among all these, however, there was not one who had been numbered by Moses and Aaron the priest when they counted the Israelites in the Wilderness of Sinai.
- 1 Corinthians 10:5
  Nevertheless, God was not pleased with most of them, for they were struck down in the wilderness.
- Hebrews 3:17
  And with whom was God angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?
Through
Numbers 33:1
These are the journeys of the Israelites when they came out of the land of Egypt by their divisions under the leadership of Moses and Aaron.
leads to
- Psalms 77:20
  You led Your people like a flock by the hand of Moses and Aaron.
- Micah 6:4
  For I brought you up from the land of Egypt and redeemed you from the house of slavery. I sent Moses before you, as well as Aaron and Miriam.
Through
Numbers 26:2
“Take a census of the whole congregation of Israel by the houses of their fathers—all those twenty years of age or older who can serve in the army of Israel.”
leads to
- Exodus 38:25–26
  The silver from those numbered among the congregation totaled 100 talents and 1,775 shekels, according to the sanctuary shekel—
- Numbers 1:2–3
  “Take a census of the whole congregation of Israel by their clans and families, listing every man by name, one by one.

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Where the connections lead

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The walk

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About Numbers