Numbers 1:17

Easy-to-Read Version

Moses and Aaron took the men who had been chosen to be leaders

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

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 Moses and Aaron took the men who had been chosen to be leaders ¹⁸ and called all the Israelites together on the first day of the second month. Then the people were listed by their families and their family groups. All the men who were 20 years old or older were listed. ¹⁹ Moses did exactly what the Lord commanded—he counted the people while they were in the desert of Sinai. ²⁰ The tribe of Reuben was counted. (Reuben was the firstborn son of Israel.) The names of all the men who were 20 years old or older and able to serve in the army were listed. They were listed with their families and family groups. ²¹ The total number of men counted from the tribe of Reuben was 46,500. ²² The tribe of Simeon was counted. The names of all the men who were 20 years old or older and able to serve in the army were listed. They were listed with their families and family groups. ²³ The total number of men counted from the tribe of Simeon was 59,300. ²⁴ The tribe of Gad was counted. The names of all the men who were 20 years old or older and able to serve in the army were listed. They were listed with their families and family groups. ²⁵ The total number of men counted from the tribe of Gad was 45,650. ²⁶ The tribe of Judah was counted. The names of all the men who were 20 years old or older and able to serve in the army were listed. They were listed with their families and family groups.

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 am putting a rainbow in the clouds as proof of the agreement between me and the earth.

Job 38:12
"Did you ever in your life command the morning to begin or the day to dawn?

Psalms 8:1

To the director: With the gittith. A song of David.

Lord our Lord, your name is the most wonderful in all the earth! It brings you praise everywhere in heaven.

Psalms 8:3
I look at the heavens you made with your hands. I see the moon and the stars you created.

Acts 13:47
This is what the Lord told us to do: ‘I have made you a light for the other nations, to show people all over the world the way to be saved.'"

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.