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JPS Old Testament

Numbers 2:1

And the LORD spoke unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying:

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

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

Dictionaries:

- Holman Bible Dictionary - Numbers, Book of;   Tabernacle;   Tribes of Israel, the;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Aaron;   Moses;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Army;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Encampment;   Tabernacle;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Events of the Encampment;   Last Days at Sinai;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - War;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Bemidbar Rabbah;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
The LORD spoke to Moshe and to Aharon, saying,
King James Version
And the Lord spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,
Lexham English Bible
Yahweh spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying,
New Century Version
The Lord said to Moses and Aaron:
New English Translation
The Lord spoke to Moses and to Aaron:
Amplified Bible
The LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying,
New American Standard Bible
Now the LORD spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,
Geneva Bible (1587)
And the Lorde spake vnto Moses, and to Aaron, saying,
Legacy Standard Bible
Now Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,
Contemporary English Version
The Lord told Moses and Aaron
Darby Translation
And Jehovah spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,
Easy-to-Read Version
The Lord said to Moses and Aaron:
English Standard Version
The Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying,
George Lamsa Translation
AND the LORD spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,
Christian Standard Bible®
The Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron:
Literal Translation
And Jehovah spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying,
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And ye LORDE spake vnto Moses and Aaron, & sayde:
American Standard Version
And Jehovah spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,
Bible in Basic English
And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron,
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And the Lorde spake vnto Moyses and Aaron, saying:
King James Version (1611)
And the Lord spake vnto Moses, and vnto Aaron, saying,
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying,
English Revised Version
And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,
Berean Standard Bible
Then the LORD said to Moses and Aaron:
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And the Lord spak to Moises and to Aaron, and seide,
Young's Literal Translation
And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, and unto Aaron, saying,
Update Bible Version
And Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,
Webster's Bible Translation
And the LORD spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,
World English Bible
Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,
New King James Version
And the LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying:
New Living Translation
Then the Lord gave these instructions to Moses and Aaron:
New Life Bible
The Lord said to Moses and Aaron,
New Revised Standard
The Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying:
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Then spake Yahweh onto Moses and onto Aaron saying:
Douay-Rheims Bible
And the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying:
Revised Standard Version
The LORD said to Moses and Aaron,
THE MESSAGE
God spoke to Moses and Aaron. He said, "The People of Israel are to set up camp circling the Tent of Meeting and facing it. Each company is to camp under its distinctive tribal flag."
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Now the LORD spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,

Contextual Overview

1 And the LORD spoke unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying: 2 'The children of Israel shall pitch by their fathers' houses; every man with his own standard, according to the ensigns; a good way off shall they pitch round about the tent of meeting.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Reciprocal: Numbers 2:17 - tabernacle Numbers 7:2 - the princes Numbers 7:17 - this was the offering Deuteronomy 23:12 - General

Cross-References

Genesis 1:1
In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
Genesis 1:10
And God called the dry land Earth, and the gathering together of the waters called He Seas; and God saw that it was good.
Genesis 2:3
And God blessed the seventh day, and hallowed it; because that in it He rested from all His work which God in creating had made.
Genesis 2:4
These are the generations of the heaven and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made earth and heaven.
Genesis 2:5
No shrub of the field was yet in the earth, and no herb of the field had yet sprung up; for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground;
Genesis 2:8
And the LORD God planted a garden eastward, in Eden; and there He put the man whom He had formed.
Genesis 2:11
The name of the first is Pishon; that is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold;
Genesis 2:13
And the name of the second river is Gihon; the same is it that compasseth the whole land of Cush.
Exodus 20:11
Honour thy father and thy mother, that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
Exodus 31:17
It is a sign between Me and the children of Israel for ever; for in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day He ceased from work and rested.'

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the Lord spake unto Moses, and unto Aaron,.... Very probably after the number of the children of Israel was taken, of which in the preceding chapter, and when the congregation of Israel with the tabernacle were about to set forward on their journey; and therefore directions are here given for their orderly and regular proceeding in it, in what form and manner they should both encamp and march;

saying: as follows.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

CHAPTER II

Moses commanded to teach the Israelites how they are to pitch

their tents, and erect the ensigns of their fathers' houses,

1, 2.

Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun, on the EAST, amounting to

186,400 men, 3-9.

Reuben, Simeon, and Gad, on the SOUTH, with 151,450

men, 10-16.

The Levites to be in the midst of the camp, 17.

Ephraim, Manasseh, and Benjamin, on the WEST, with

108,100 men, 18-24.

Dan, Asher, and Naphtali, on the NORTH, with 157,600

men, 25-31.

The sum total of the whole, 603,550 men, 32.

But the Levites are not included, 33.

The people do as the Lord commands them, 34.

NOTES ON CHAP. II


 
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