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Numbers 3:42

in Numbers 3

So Moses numbered all the firstborn of the Israelites, as the LORD had commanded him.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And Moses numbered, as Jehovah commanded him, all the first-born among the children of Israel.

KJV

And Moses numbered, as the Lord commanded him, all the firstborn among the children of Israel.

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This verse in Numbers 3

Commentary

3 notes on this verse
And Moses numbered, as the Lord commanded him,.... No doubt assisted by others, though not mentioned: all the firstborn among the children of Israel; which some think were only those that were born since they came out of Egypt, as Bonfrerius, Bishop Patrick, and others.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

The church is called the church of the first-born, which is redeemed, not as these were, with silver and gold, but, being devoted by sin to the justice of God, is ransomed with the precious blood of the Son of God.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

The excess of the general over the Levitical first-born is so small, that the only way of accounting for it is, by supposing those first-born only were counted as were males remaining in their parents' household, or that those first-born only were numbered which had been born since the departure from Egypt, when God claimed all the first-born as his special property.

The words behind it

11 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.

  • וַיִּפְקֹ֣דand he enrolled

    vaiyifkodH6485 →303 times

  • מֹשֶׁ֔הMoses

    moshehH4872 →765 times

  • כַּאֲשֶׁ֛רjust as

    kaasherH834 →5497 times

  • צִוָּ֥הhe had commanded

    tzivahH6680 →494 times

  • יְהוָ֖הYahweh

    yahwehH3068 →6520 times

  • אֹת֑וֹ<obj.> him

    ʾotoH853 →10935 times

  • אֶֽת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • כָּל־every

    kol-H3605 →5413 times

  • בְּכֹ֖רfirstborn

    bekhorH1060 →122 times

  • בִּבְנֵ֥יamong [the] people of

    bivneiH1121 →4930 times

  • יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃Israel

    yisraelH3478 →2507 times

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

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 3 →

This page draws on 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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