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Good News Translation

Numbers 3:22

The total number of males one month old or older that were enrolled was 7,500.

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.
Contemporary English Version
and they had seven thousand five hundred men and boys at least one month old.
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.
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 commanded Moses 15 to register the Levites by clans and families, enrolling every male a month old or older, 16 and Moses did so. 17Levi had three sons: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari, who were the ancestors of the clans that bear their names. Gershon had two sons: Libni and Shimei; Kohath had four sons: Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel; and Merari had two sons: Mahli and Mushi. They were the ancestors of the families that bear their names. 21 The clan of Gershon was composed of the families of Libni and Shimei. 22 The total number of males one month old or older that were enrolled was 7,500. 23 This clan was to camp on the west behind the Tent, 24 with Eliasaph son of Lael as chief of the clan. 25 They were responsible for the Tent, its inner cover, its outer cover, the curtain for the entrance, 26 the curtains for the court which is around the Tent and the altar, and the curtain for the entrance of the court. They were responsible for all the service connected with these items.

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
Then God said, "And now we will make human beings; they will be like us and resemble us. They will have power over the fish, the birds, and all animals, domestic and wild, large and small."
Genesis 2:9
He made all kinds of beautiful trees grow there and produce good fruit. In the middle of the garden stood the tree that gives life and the tree that gives knowledge of what is good and what is bad.
Genesis 3:5
God said that because he knows that when you eat it, you will be like God and know what is good and what is bad."
Genesis 3:6
The woman saw how beautiful the tree was and how good its fruit would be to eat, and she thought how wonderful it would be to become wise. So she took some of the fruit and ate it. Then she gave some to her husband, and he also ate it.
Genesis 3:7
As soon as they had eaten it, they were given understanding and realized that they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and covered themselves.
Genesis 3:12
The man answered, "The woman you put here with me gave me the fruit, and I ate it."
Genesis 3:13
The Lord God asked the woman, "Why did you do this?" She replied, "The snake tricked me into eating it."
Psalms 22:26
The poor will eat as much as they want; those who come to the Lord will praise him. May they prosper forever!
Proverbs 3:18
Those who become wise are happy; wisdom will give them life.
Jeremiah 22:23
You rest secure among the cedars brought from Lebanon; but how pitiful you'll be when pains strike you, pains like those of a woman in labor.

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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