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Numbers 3:16

So Moses numbered them just as he was commanded by the word (mouth) of the LORD.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Census;   Levites;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Levites, the;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Levite;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Worship;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Levites;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Job;   Moses;   Priests and Levites;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - First-Begotten, First-Born,;   Levites ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Camp and encamp;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - First-Born;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Last Days at Sinai;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Moses;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Hafá¹­arah;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
Moshe numbered them according to the word of the LORD, as he was commanded.
King James Version
And Moses numbered them according to the word of the Lord , as he was commanded.
Lexham English Bible
So Moses mustered them according to the command of Yahweh, just as he commanded.
New Century Version
So Moses obeyed the Lord and counted them all.
New English Translation
So Moses numbered them according to the word of the Lord , just as he had been commanded.
New American Standard Bible
So Moses counted them according to the word of the LORD, just as he had been commanded.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Then Moses nombred them according to the word of the Lord, as he was commanded.
Legacy Standard Bible
So Moses numbered them according to the word of Yahweh, just as he had been commanded.
Contemporary English Version
So Moses obeyed and counted them.
Complete Jewish Bible
Moshe counted them in the manner Adonai had said, as he had been ordered.
Darby Translation
And Moses numbered them, according to the commandment of Jehovah,—as he had been commanded.
Easy-to-Read Version
So Moses obeyed the Lord . He counted them all.
English Standard Version
So Moses listed them according to the word of the Lord , as he was commanded.
George Lamsa Translation
So Moses numbered them according to the word of the LORD, as he was commanded.
Good News Translation
and Moses did so.
Christian Standard Bible®
So Moses registered them in obedience to the Lord as he had been commanded:
Literal Translation
And Moses numbered them according to the command of Jehovah, as he had been commanded.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
So Moses nombred them acordinge to the worde of the LORDE, as he had commaunded.
American Standard Version
And Moses numbered them according to the word of Jehovah, as he was commanded.
Bible in Basic English
So Moses did as the Lord said, numbering them as he had been ordered.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And Moyses numbred them, according to the worde of the Lorde, as he was commaunded.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And Moses numbered them according to the word of the LORD, as he was commanded.
King James Version (1611)
And Moses numbred them according to the word of the Lord, as he was commanded.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And Moses and Aaron numbered them by the word of the Lord, as the Lord commanded them.
English Revised Version
And Moses numbered them according to the word of the LORD, as he was commanded.
Berean Standard Bible
So Moses numbered them according to the word of the LORD, as he had been commanded.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Moises noumbride, as the Lord comaundide.
Young's Literal Translation
And Moses numbereth them according to the command of Jehovah, as he hath been commanded.
Update Bible Version
And Moses numbered them according to the word of Yahweh, as it was commanded.
Webster's Bible Translation
And Moses numbered them according to the word of the LORD, as he was commanded.
World English Bible
Moses numbered them according to the word of Yahweh, as he was commanded.
New King James Version
So Moses numbered them according to the word of the LORD, as he was commanded.
New Living Translation
So Moses listed them, just as the Lord had commanded.
New Life Bible
So Moses numbered them just as he had been told by the word of the Lord.
New Revised Standard
So Moses enrolled them according to the word of the Lord , as he was commanded.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
So then Moses numbered them according to the bidding of Yahweh, - as he was commanded.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Moses numbered them as the Lord had commanded.
Revised Standard Version
So Moses numbered them according to the word of the LORD, as he was commanded.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
So Moses numbered them according to the word of the LORD, just as he had been commanded.

Contextual Overview

14Then the LORD spoke to Moses in the Wilderness of Sinai, saying, 15"Number the sons of Levi by their fathers' households, by their families (clans). You shall number every male from a month old and upward." 16So Moses numbered them just as he was commanded by the word (mouth) of the LORD.17These are the [three] sons of Levi by their names: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari. 18These are the names of the [two] sons of Gershon by their families: Libni and Shimei; 19and the [four] sons of Kohath by their families: Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel; 20and the [two] sons of Merari by their families: Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites by their fathers' households. 21Of Gershon were the families of the Libnites and of the Shimeites. These are the families of the Gershonites. 22The males who were numbered, every male from a month old and upward totaled 7,500. 23The families of the Gershonites were to camp behind the tabernacle on the west,

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

word: Heb. mouth, Numbers 3:39, Numbers 3:51, Numbers 4:27, Numbers 4:37, Numbers 4:41, Numbers 4:45, Numbers 4:49, Genesis 45:21, Deuteronomy 21:5

Cross-References

Genesis 3:1
Now the serpent was more crafty (subtle, skilled in deceit) than any living creature of the field which the LORD God had made. And the serpent (Satan) said to the woman, "Can it really be that God has said, 'You shall not eat from any tree of the garden'?"
Genesis 3:6
And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was delightful to look at, and a tree to be desired in order to make one wise and insightful, she took some of its fruit and ate it; and she also gave some to her husband with her, and he ate.
Genesis 3:7
Then the eyes of the two of them were opened [that is, their awareness increased], and they knew that they were naked; and they fastened fig leaves together and made themselves coverings.
Genesis 3:8
And they heard the sound of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool [afternoon breeze] of the day, so the man and his wife hid and kept themselves hidden from the presence of the LORD God among the trees of the garden.
Genesis 3:9
But the LORD God called to Adam, and said to him, "Where are you?"
Genesis 3:10
He said, "I heard the sound of You [walking] in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; so I hid myself."
Genesis 3:11
God said, "Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten [fruit] from the tree of which I commanded you not to eat?"
Genesis 3:12
And the man said, "The woman whom You gave to be with me—she gave me [fruit] from the tree, and I ate it."
Genesis 3:16
To the woman He said, "I will greatly multiply Your pain in childbirth; In pain you will give birth to children; Yet your desire and longing will be for your husband, And he will rule [with authority] over you and be responsible for you."
Genesis 3:17
Then to Adam the LORD God said, "Because you have listened [attentively] to the voice of your wife, and have eaten [fruit] from the tree about which I commanded you, saying, 'You shall not eat of it'; The ground is [now] under a curse because of you; In sorrow and toil you shall eat [the fruit] of it All the days of your life.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Moses numbered them according to the word of the Lord,.... Took the account of all of a month old in the several houses and families of the tribe of Levi; though Moses is only here mentioned, yet it seems from Numbers 3:39; that Aaron was concerned with him in it; yea, in an after numbering of the Levites who were fit for business from thirty to fifty years of age, the chief of the children of Israel were assisting to him and Aaron, Numbers 4:46;

as he commanded; he was obedient to the divine will in all things, and so in this, though it was his own tribe and his own posterity, which in all successive ages were to be no other than ministering servants to the priests, and to have no inheritance in the land of Israel.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Numbers 3:16. Moses numbered them — Though Moses and Aaron conjointly numbered the twelve tribes, yet Moses alone numbered the Levites; "for as the money with which the first-born of Israel, who exceeded the number of Levites, were redeemed, was to be paid to Aaron and his sons, Numbers 3:48, it was decent that he, whose advantage it was that the number of the first-born of Israel should exceed, should not be authorized to take that number himself." - Dodd, from Bishop Kidder.


 
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