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Contemporary English Version

Numbers 3:22

and they had seven thousand five hundred men and boys at least one month old.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

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

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Levite;   Tabernacle;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Worship;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Census;   Gershon;   Levites;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Gershon;   Levites;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Job;   Moses;   Priests and Levites;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Sanctuary;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - First-Begotten, First-Born,;   Gershon, Gershonites ;   Kohath, Kohathites ;   Levites ;   Merari, Merarites ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Camp and encamp;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Armies;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Last Days at Sinai;   On to Canaan;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Moses;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Johanan B. Zakkai;   Polemics and Polemical Literature;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
Those who were numbered of them, according to the number of all the males, from a month old and upward, even those who were numbered of them were seven thousand five hundred.
King James Version
Those that were numbered of them, according to the number of all the males, from a month old and upward, even those that were numbered of them were seven thousand and five hundred.
Lexham English Bible
The ones counted according to the number of every male from one month and above were seven thousand five hundred.
New Century Version
The number that was counted was 7,500 males one month old or older.
New English Translation
Those of them who were numbered, counting every male from a month old and upward, were 7,500.
Amplified Bible
The males who were numbered, every male from a month old and upward totaled 7,500.
New American Standard Bible
Their numbered men, in the counting of every male from a month old and upward, their numbered men were 7,500.
Geneva Bible (1587)
The summe whereof ( after the nomber of all the males from a moneth olde and aboue) was counted seuen thousand and fiue hundreth.
Legacy Standard Bible
Their numbered men, in the numbering of every male from a month old and upward, even their numbered men were 7,500.
Complete Jewish Bible
Of them, 7,500 males a month old and over were counted.
Darby Translation
Those that were numbered of them, according to the number of all the males, from a month old and upward, those that were numbered of them were seven thousand five hundred.
Easy-to-Read Version
There were 7500 men and boys over one month old in these two family groups.
English Standard Version
Their listing according to the number of all the males from a month old and upward was 7,500.
George Lamsa Translation
Their number, according to the number of all the males from a month old and upward was seven thousand and five hundred.
Good News Translation
The total number of males one month old or older that were enrolled was 7,500.
Christian Standard Bible®
Those registered, counting every male one month old or more, numbered 7,500.
Literal Translation
Those numbered of them, according to the number of all the males, from a son of a month and upward, even those numbered of them were seven thousand and five hundred.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
the summe was founde in nombre, seuen thousande and fyue hundreth, of all that were males of a moneth olde and aboue.
American Standard Version
Those that were numbered of them, according to the number of all the males, from a month old and upward, even those that were numbered of them were seven thousand and five hundred.
Bible in Basic English
Those who were numbered of them, the males from one month old and over, were seven thousand, five hundred.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And the summe of them after the number of all the males, from a moneth old and aboue, was counted seuen thousande and fiue hundred.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Those that were numbered of them, according to the number of all the males, from a month old and upward, even those that were numbered of them were seven thousand and five hundred.
King James Version (1611)
Those that were numbred of them, according to the number of all the males, from a moneth old and vpward, euen those that were numbred of them, were seuen thousand and fiue hundred.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
The numbering of them according to the number of every male from a month old and upwards, their numbering was seven thousand and five hundred.
English Revised Version
Those that were numbered of them, according to the number of all the males, from a month old and upward, even those that were numbered of them were seven thousand and five hundred.
Berean Standard Bible
The number of all the males a month old or more was 7,500.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
of whiche the puple of male kynde was noumbrid, fro o monethe and aboue, seuene thousynde and fyue hundrid.
Young's Literal Translation
Their numbered ones, in number, every male from a son of a month and upward, their numbered ones [are] seven thousand and five hundred.
Update Bible Version
Those that were numbered of them, according to the number of all the males, from a month old and upward, even those that were numbered of them were seven thousand and five hundred.
Webster's Bible Translation
Those that were numbered of them, according to the number of all the males, from a month old and upward, [even] those that were numbered of them, [were] seven thousand and five hundred.
World English Bible
Those who were numbered of them, according to the number of all the males, from a month old and upward, even those who were numbered of them were seven thousand five hundred.
New King James Version
Those who were numbered, according to the number of all the males from a month old and above--of those who were numbered there were seven thousand five hundred.
New Living Translation
There were 7,500 males one month old or older among these Gershonite clans.
New Life Bible
The number of their men, every male a month old and older, was 7,500.
New Revised Standard
Their enrollment, counting all the males from a month old and upward, was seven thousand five hundred.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
They who were numbered of them in the counting of every male, from one month old, and upwards, - they who were num-bered of them, were seven thousand and five hundred.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Of which were numbered, people of the male sex from one month and upward, seven thousand five hundred.
Revised Standard Version
Their number according to the number of all the males from a month old and upward was seven thousand five hundred.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Their numbered men, in the numbering of every male from a month old and upward, even their numbered men were 7,500.

Contextual Overview

14 In the Sinai Desert the Lord said to Moses, 15 "Now I want you to count the men and boys in the Levi tribe by families and by clans. Include every one at least a month old." 16 So Moses obeyed and counted them. 17 Levi's three sons, Gershon, Kohath, and Merari, had become the heads of their own clans. 18 Gershon's sons were Libni and Shimei. 19 Kohath's sons were Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel. 20 And Merari's sons were Mahli and Mushi. These were the sons and grandsons of Levi, and they had become the leaders of the Levite clans. 21 The two Gershon clans were the Libnites and Shimeites, 22 and they had seven thousand five hundred men and boys at least one month old. 23 The Gershonites were to camp on the west side of the sacred tent,

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

from a month old: The males of all the other tribes were numbered from twenty years old and upwards; but, had the Levites been numbered in this way, they would not have been nearly equal in number to the first-born of the twelve tribes. Add to this, that as there must have been first-born of all ages in the other tribes, it was necessary that the Levites, who were to be their substitutes, should also be of all ages; and it appears to have been partly on this ground, that the Levites were numbered from a month old and upwards. Numbers 4:38-40

Reciprocal: Numbers 3:15 - General Numbers 3:39 - and Aaron Numbers 4:44 - General Joshua 21:6 - General

Cross-References

Genesis 1:26
God said, "Now we will make humans, and they will be like us. We will let them rule the fish, the birds, and all other living creatures."
Genesis 2:9
The Lord God placed all kinds of beautiful trees and fruit trees in the garden. Two other trees were in the middle of the garden. One of the trees gave life—the other gave the power to know the difference between right and wrong.
Genesis 3:5
"God understands what will happen on the day you eat fruit from that tree. You will see what you have done, and you will know the difference between right and wrong, just as God does."
Genesis 3:6
The woman stared at the fruit. It looked beautiful and tasty. She wanted the wisdom that it would give her, and she ate some of the fruit. Her husband was there with her, so she gave some to him, and he ate it too.
Genesis 3:7
Right away they saw what they had done, and they realized they were naked. Then they sewed fig leaves together to make something to cover themselves.
Genesis 3:12
"It was the woman you put here with me," the man said. "She gave me some of the fruit, and I ate it."
Genesis 3:13
The Lord God then asked the woman, "What have you done?" "The snake tricked me," she answered. "And I ate some of that fruit."
Psalms 22:26
The poor will eat and be full, and all who worship you will be thankful and live in hope.
Proverbs 3:18
Wisdom is a life-giving tree, the source of happiness for all who hold on to her.
Jeremiah 22:23
Those who live in the palace paneled with cedar will groan with pain like women giving birth.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Those that were numbered of them,.... Of the two families that sprung from Gershon:

according to the number of all the males, from a month old and upwards: in the said families;

[even] those that were numbered of them, [were] seven thousand and five hundred; 7,500 men, which was neither the least nor the largest number of the sons of Levi.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Numbers 3:22. Seven thousand and five hundred — Perhaps originally resh, 200, instead of caph, 500; see the following note.


 
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