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Numbers 26:4

Let all the people of twenty years old and over be numbered, as the Lord has given orders to Moses and the children of Israel who have come out of Egypt.

Bible Study Resources

Dictionaries:

- Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Priest, Priesthood;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Numbers, Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Genealogy;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - On to Canaan;   Moses, the Man of God;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Genealogy;   Numbers, Book of;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
[Take the sum of the people], from twenty years old and upward; as the LORD commanded Moshe and the children of Yisra'el, that came forth out of the land of Mitzrayim.
King James Version
Take the sum of the people, from twenty years old and upward; as the Lord commanded Moses and the children of Israel, which went forth out of the land of Egypt.
Lexham English Bible
"Take a census of the community from those twenty years old and above, just as Yahweh commanded Moses." The Israelites who went out from the land of Egypt were:
English Standard Version
"Take a census of the people, from twenty years old and upward," as the Lord commanded Moses. The people of Israel who came out of the land of Egypt were:
New Century Version
"Count the men twenty years old or older, as the Lord commanded Moses." Here are the Israelites who came out of Egypt:
New English Translation
"Number the people from twenty years old and upward, just as the Lord commanded Moses and the Israelites who went out from the land of Egypt."
Amplified Bible
"A census of the people shall be taken from twenty years old and upward, just as the LORD has commanded Moses." Now the Israelites who came out of the land of Egypt were:
New American Standard Bible
"Take a census of the people from twenty years old and upward, as the LORD has commanded Moses." Now the sons of Israel who came out of the land of Egypt were as follows:
Geneva Bible (1587)
From twentie yeere olde and aboue ye shall nomber the people, as the Lord had commanded Moses, and the childre of Israel, when they came out of the land of Egypt.
Legacy Standard Bible
"Take a census of the people from twenty years old and upward, as Yahweh has commanded Moses." Now the sons of Israel who came out of the land of Egypt were:
Contemporary English Version
what the Lord had said about counting the men twenty years and older, just as Moses and their ancestors had done when they left Egypt.
Complete Jewish Bible
"Those twenty years old and over who came out of the land of Egypt, as Adonai ordered Moshe and the people of Isra'el."
Darby Translation
From twenty years old and upward …; as Jehovah had commanded Moses and the children of Israel, who went forth out of the land of Egypt.
Easy-to-Read Version
"You must count every man who is 20 years old or older. The Lord gave Moses this command." Here is the list of the Israelites who came out of Egypt:
George Lamsa Translation
And Moses numbered them from twenty years old and upward, as the LORD commanded Moses and the children of Israel who went forth out of the land of Egypt.
Christian Standard Bible®
“Take a census of those twenty years old or more, as the Lord had commanded Moses and the Israelites who came out of the land of Egypt.”
Literal Translation
Count from a son of twenty years and upward, as Jehovah commanded Moses and the sons of Israel, who went forth out of the land of Egypt.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
namely vnto all the that were twentye yeare olde & aboue, as the LORDE comaunded Moses. And these are ye childre of Israel, that came out of Egipte.
American Standard Version
Take the sum of the people, from twenty years old and upward; as Jehovah commanded Moses and the children of Israel, that came forth out of the land of Egypt.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
[Ye shall number the people] From twentie yeres & aboue, as the Lorde commaunded Moyses and the children of Israel, when they were come out of Egypt.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
'[Take the sum of the people,] from twenty years old and upward, as the LORD commanded Moses and the children of Israel, that came forth out of the land of Egypt.'
King James Version (1611)
Take the summe of the people from twenty yeeres old and vpward, as the Lord commanded Moses, and the children of Israel which went foorth out of the land of Egypt.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
This is the numbering from twenty years old and upward as the Lord commanded Moses. And the sons of Israel that came out of Egypt are as follows:
English Revised Version
Take the sum of the people, from twenty years old and upward; as the LORD commanded Moses and the children of Israel, which came forth out of the land of Egypt.
Berean Standard Bible
"Take a census of the men twenty years of age and older, as the LORD has commanded Moses." And these were the Israelites who came out of the land of Egypt:
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
as the Lord comaundide; of whiche this is the noumbre.
Young's Literal Translation
`From a son of twenty years and upward,' as Jehovah hath commanded Moses and the sons of Israel who are coming out from the land of Egypt.
Update Bible Version
[Take the sum of the people], from twenty years old and upward; as Yahweh commanded Moses and the sons of Israel, that came forth out of the land of Egypt.
Webster's Bible Translation
[Take the sum of the people], from twenty years old and upward; as the LORD commanded Moses and the children of Israel, who went forth from the land of Egypt.
World English Bible
[Take the sum of the people], from twenty years old and upward; as Yahweh commanded Moses and the children of Israel, that came forth out of the land of Egypt.
New King James Version
"Take a census of the people from twenty years old and above, just as the LORD commanded Moses and the children of Israel who came out of the land of Egypt."
New Living Translation
"List all the men of Israel twenty years old and older, just as the Lord commanded Moses." This is the record of all the descendants of Israel who came out of Egypt.
New Life Bible
"Number the people who are twenty years old and older, as the Lord has told Moses." Now these were the sons of Israel who came out of the land of Egypt.
New Revised Standard
"Take a census of the people, from twenty years old and upward," as the Lord commanded Moses. The Israelites, who came out of the land of Egypt, were:
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
From twenty years old and upwards, As Yahweh commanded Moses, and the sons of Israel, who had come forth out of the land of Egypt.
Douay-Rheims Bible
From twenty years old and upward, as the Lord had commanded: and this is the number of them:
Revised Standard Version
"Take a census of the people, from twenty years old and upward," as the LORD commanded Moses. The people of Israel, who came forth out of the land of Egypt, were:
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Take a census of the people from twenty years old and upward, as the LORD has commanded Moses." Now the sons of Israel who came out of the land of Egypt were:

Contextual Overview

1 Now after the disease was over, the Lord said to Moses and Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, 2 Let all the children of Israel be numbered, by the names of their fathers' families, all those of twenty years old and over who are able to go to war in Israel. 3 So Moses and Eleazar the priest gave them the order in the lowlands of Moab by Jordan at Jericho, saying, 4 Let all the people of twenty years old and over be numbered, as the Lord has given orders to Moses and the children of Israel who have come out of Egypt.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Numbers 1:1, 1 Chronicles 21:1

Cross-References

Genesis 13:16
And I will make your children like the dust of the earth, so that if the dust of the earth may be numbered, then will your children be numbered.
Genesis 15:5
And he took him out into the open air, and said to him, Let your eyes be lifted to heaven, and see if the stars may be numbered; even so will your seed be.
Genesis 15:18
In that day the Lord made an agreement with Abram, and said, To your seed have I given this land from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates:
Genesis 18:18
Seeing that Abraham will certainly become a great and strong nation, and his name will be used by all the nations of the earth as a blessing?
Genesis 26:2
And the Lord came to him in a vision and said, Do not go down to Egypt; keep in the land of which I will give you knowledge:
Genesis 26:3
Keep in this land, and I will be with you and give you my blessing; for to you and to your seed will I give all these lands, giving effect to the oath which I made to your father Abraham;
Genesis 26:4
I will make your seed like the stars of heaven in number, and will give them all these lands, and your seed will be a blessing to all the nations of the earth;
Genesis 26:8
And when he had been there for some time, Abimelech, king of the Philistines, looking through a window, saw Isaac playing with Rebekah his wife.
Genesis 26:17
So Isaac went away from there, and put up his tents in the valley of Gerar, making his living-place there.
Genesis 26:18
And he made again the water-holes which had been made in the days of Abraham his father, and which had been stopped up by the Philistines; and he gave them the names which his father had given them.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

[Take the sum of the people], from twenty years old and upward,.... At the same age at which the sum was taken before, Numbers 1:3 so that there could not be one that was more than sixty years of age, of all those that went into the land of Canaan, except Joshua and Caleb, and besides some few in the tribe of Levi, which did not come into either of these musters:

and the Lord commanded Moses, and the children of Israel, which went forth out of the land of Egypt; as Moses had a command to number the people before, so he had now. The sin of David was, that he numbered the people when he had no command for it; Moses, when he brought the people out of Egypt, had them committed to him by number; and now being about to die, he delivers them up as it were by number again, as Jarchi observes.


 
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