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The Darby Translation

Numbers 1:17

And Moses and Aaron took these men who are expressed by their names,

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Israel;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Desert, Journey of Israel through the;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Agag;   Jazer;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Palestine;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Moses;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Census;   Poll;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Zebulun;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Events of the Encampment;   Last Days at Sinai;   On to Canaan;   Moses, the Man of God;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Exodus, the Book of;   Name;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Genealogy;   Hafá¹­arah;   Sidra;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
Moshe and Aharon took these men who are mentioned by name.
King James Version
And Moses and Aaron took these men which are expressed by their names:
Lexham English Bible
So Moses and Aaron took these men who had been designated by name,
New Century Version
Moses and Aaron took these men who had been picked
New English Translation
So Moses and Aaron took these men who had been mentioned specifically by name,
Amplified Bible
So Moses and Aaron took these men who were designated by name,
New American Standard Bible
So Moses and Aaron took these men who had been designated by name,
Geneva Bible (1587)
The Moses and Aaron tooke these men which are expressed by their names.
Legacy Standard Bible
So Moses and Aaron took these men who had been designated by name,
Complete Jewish Bible
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Easy-to-Read Version
Moses and Aaron took the men who had been chosen to be leaders
English Standard Version
Moses and Aaron took these men who had been named,
George Lamsa Translation
And Moses and Aaron took these men who were chosen by their names;
Good News Translation
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Christian Standard Bible®
So Moses and Aaron took these men who had been designated by name,
Literal Translation
And Moses and Aaron took these men who were marked out by name.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And Moses & Aaron toke them (like as they are there named by name)
American Standard Version
And Moses and Aaron took these men that are mentioned by name:
Bible in Basic English
And Moses and Aaron took these men, marked out by name;
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And Moyses & Aaron toke these men whiche are expressed by their names.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And Moses and Aaron took these men that are pointed out by name.
King James Version (1611)
And Moses and Aaron tooke these men, which are expressed by their names.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And Moses and Aaron took these men who were called by name.
English Revised Version
And Moses and Aaron took these men which are expressed by name:
Berean Standard Bible
So Moses and Aaron took these men who had been designated by name,
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
whiche pryncis Moises and Aaron token, with al the multitude of the comyn puple.
Young's Literal Translation
And Moses taketh -- Aaron also -- these men, who were defined by name,
Update Bible Version
And Moses and Aaron took these men that are mentioned by name:
Webster's Bible Translation
And Moses and Aaron took these men who are expressed by [their] names:
World English Bible
Moses and Aaron took these men who are mentioned by name.
New King James Version
Then Moses and Aaron took these men who had been mentioned by name,
New Living Translation
So Moses and Aaron called together these chosen leaders,
New Life Bible
Moses and Aaron took these men who had been chosen by name.
New Revised Standard
Moses and Aaron took these men who had been designated by name,
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
So then Moses and Aaron took these men, who were distinguished by name;
Douay-Rheims Bible
Whom Moses and Aaron took with all the multitude of the common people:
Revised Standard Version
Moses and Aaron took these men who have been named,
THE MESSAGE
Moses and Aaron took these men who had been named to help and gathered the whole congregation together on the first day of the second month. The people registered themselves in their tribes according to their ancestral families, putting down the names of those who were twenty years old and older, just as God commanded Moses. He numbered them in the Wilderness of Sinai.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
So Moses and Aaron took these men who had been designated by name,

Contextual Overview

17 And Moses and Aaron took these men who are expressed by their names, 18 and gathered the whole assembly together on the first of the second month. And they declared their pedigrees after their families, according to their fathers' houses, by the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, according to their polls. 19 As Jehovah had commanded Moses, so he numbered them in the wilderness of Sinai. 20 And the sons of Reuben, Israel's eldest son, their generations, after their families, according to their fathers' houses, by the number of the names, according to their polls, every male from twenty years old and upward, all that went forth to military service: 21 those that were numbered of them, of the tribe of Reuben, were forty-six thousand five hundred. 22 Of the sons of Simeon: their generations, after their families, according to their fathers' houses, those that were numbered of them, by the number of the names, according to their polls, every male from twenty years old and upward, all that went forth to military service: 23 those that were numbered of them, of the tribe of Simeon, were fifty-nine thousand three hundred. 24 Of the sons of Gad: their generations, after their families, according to their fathers' houses, by the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that went forth to military service: 25 those that were numbered of them, of the tribe of Gad, were forty-five thousand six hundred and fifty. 26 Of the sons of Judah: their generations, after their families, according to their fathers' houses, by the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that went forth to military service:

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Numbers 1:5-15, John 10:3, Revelation 7:4-17

Reciprocal: Leviticus 24:16 - blasphemeth 1 Chronicles 16:41 - expressed

Cross-References

Genesis 9:13
I set my bow in the clouds, and it shall be for a sign of the covenant between me and the earth.
Job 38:12
Hast thou since thy days commanded the morning? hast thou caused the dawn to know its place,
Psalms 8:1

To the chief Musician. Upon the Gittith. A Psalm of David.

Jehovah our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! who hast set thy majesty above the heavens.
Psalms 8:3
When I see thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and stars, which thou hast established;
Acts 13:47
for thus has the Lord enjoined us: I have set thee for a light of the nations, that thou shouldest be for salvation to the end of the earth.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Moses and Aaron took these men,.... They doubtless sent for them, and acquainted them with the nomination of them, by the Lord himself, for such a service; and they took them with them to the place where the number of the people was to be taken:

which are expressed by [their] names: in Numbers 1:16, and that as declared by the mouth of God himself.


 
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