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Numbers 1:38

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From the sons of Dan, according to the records of their clans and families, counting the names of all those twenty years of age or older who could serve in the army,

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

Of the children of Dan, 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;

KJV

Of the children of Dan, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;

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This verse in Numbers 1

Commentary

4 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

From the sons of Joseph

on Numbers 1:32-43

Joseph is counted as two tribes, and Ephraim at 40,500 stands above Manasseh at 32,200. Jacob had crossed his hands at Genesis 48:14-20 and said “his younger brother shall be greater than he”. The roll reads that way generations later.

This site's exposition

From the sons of Dan

Rachel named Bilhah's first son Dan at Genesis 30:6, as a sign that God had vindicated her. Jacob's word at Genesis 49:16 plays on the name, Dan shall provide justice for his people. Matthew Henry recalls it when Dan gets his own standard.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

Of the children of Dan, by their generations,.... See Gill on Num 1:20.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

proposed

Of the two half-tribes of Joseph, who is seen to be "a fruitful bough" [Ge 49:22], that of Ephraim was the larger, as had been predicted. The relative increase of all, as in the two just mentioned, was owing to the special blessing of God, conformably to the prophetic declaration of the dying patriarch.

The words behind it

15 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.

  • לִבְנֵ֣יof [the] descendants of

    livneiH1121 →4930 times

  • דָ֔ןDan

    danH1835 →70 times

  • תּוֹלְדֹתָ֥םgenealogies their

    toldotamH8435 →39 times

  • לְמִשְׁפְּחֹתָ֖םto clans their

    lemishpechotamH4940 →303 times

  • לְבֵ֣יתto [the] house of

    leveitH1004 →2046 times

  • אֲבֹתָ֑םancestors their

    ʾavotamH1 →1212 times

  • בְּמִסְפַּ֣רby [the] number of

    bemisparH4557 →134 times

  • שֵׁמֹ֗תnames

    shemotH8034 →864 times

  • מִבֶּ֨ןfrom a son of

    mibenH1121 →4930 times

  • עֶשְׂרִ֤יםtwenty

    ʾesrimH6242 →315 times

  • שָׁנָה֙year[s]

    shanahH8141 →877 times

  • וָמַ֔עְלָהand up -wards

    vama'lahH4605 →140 times

  • כֹּ֖לevery

    kolH3605 →5413 times

  • יֹצֵ֥א[one who] goes forth

    yotze'H3318 →1067 times

  • צָבָֽא׃warfare

    tzava'H6635 →485 times

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

Related verses

4 in all, six open

The walk

5 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.

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.
Numbers: the study guide →Read Numbers 1 →

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

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