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Monday, July 21st, 2025
the Week of Proper 11 / Ordinary 16
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King James Version (1611 Edition)

Numbers 3:16

And Moses numbred them according to the word of the Lord, as he was commanded.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

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

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Levite;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Worship;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Levites;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Job;   Moses;   Priests and Levites;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - First-Begotten, First-Born,;   Levites ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Camp and encamp;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - First-Born;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Last Days at Sinai;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Moses;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Hafá¹­arah;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
Moshe numbered them according to the word of the LORD, as he was commanded.
King James Version
And Moses numbered them according to the word of the Lord , as he was commanded.
Lexham English Bible
So Moses mustered them according to the command of Yahweh, just as he commanded.
New Century Version
So Moses obeyed the Lord and counted them all.
New English Translation
So Moses numbered them according to the word of the Lord , just as he had been commanded.
Amplified Bible
So Moses numbered them just as he was commanded by the word (mouth) of the LORD.
New American Standard Bible
So Moses counted them according to the word of the LORD, just as he had been commanded.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Then Moses nombred them according to the word of the Lord, as he was commanded.
Legacy Standard Bible
So Moses numbered them according to the word of Yahweh, just as he had been commanded.
Contemporary English Version
So Moses obeyed and counted them.
Complete Jewish Bible
Moshe counted them in the manner Adonai had said, as he had been ordered.
Darby Translation
And Moses numbered them, according to the commandment of Jehovah,—as he had been commanded.
Easy-to-Read Version
So Moses obeyed the Lord . He counted them all.
English Standard Version
So Moses listed them according to the word of the Lord , as he was commanded.
George Lamsa Translation
So Moses numbered them according to the word of the LORD, as he was commanded.
Good News Translation
and Moses did so.
Christian Standard Bible®
So Moses registered them in obedience to the Lord as he had been commanded:
Literal Translation
And Moses numbered them according to the command of Jehovah, as he had been commanded.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
So Moses nombred them acordinge to the worde of the LORDE, as he had commaunded.
American Standard Version
And Moses numbered them according to the word of Jehovah, as he was commanded.
Bible in Basic English
So Moses did as the Lord said, numbering them as he had been ordered.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And Moyses numbred them, according to the worde of the Lorde, as he was commaunded.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And Moses numbered them according to the word of the LORD, as he was commanded.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And Moses and Aaron numbered them by the word of the Lord, as the Lord commanded them.
English Revised Version
And Moses numbered them according to the word of the LORD, as he was commanded.
Berean Standard Bible
So Moses numbered them according to the word of the LORD, as he had been commanded.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Moises noumbride, as the Lord comaundide.
Young's Literal Translation
And Moses numbereth them according to the command of Jehovah, as he hath been commanded.
Update Bible Version
And Moses numbered them according to the word of Yahweh, as it was commanded.
Webster's Bible Translation
And Moses numbered them according to the word of the LORD, as he was commanded.
World English Bible
Moses numbered them according to the word of Yahweh, as he was commanded.
New King James Version
So Moses numbered them according to the word of the LORD, as he was commanded.
New Living Translation
So Moses listed them, just as the Lord had commanded.
New Life Bible
So Moses numbered them just as he had been told by the word of the Lord.
New Revised Standard
So Moses enrolled them according to the word of the Lord , as he was commanded.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
So then Moses numbered them according to the bidding of Yahweh, - as he was commanded.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Moses numbered them as the Lord had commanded.
Revised Standard Version
So Moses numbered them according to the word of the LORD, as he was commanded.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
So Moses numbered them according to the word of the LORD, just as he had been commanded.

Contextual Overview

14 And the Lord spake vnto Moses, in the wildernesse of Sinai, saying, 15 Number the children of Leui, after the house of their fathers, by their families: euery male from a moneth old and vpward shalt thou number them. 16 And Moses numbred them according to the word of the Lord, as he was commanded. 17 And these were the sonnes of Leui, by their names: Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari. 18 And these are the names of the sonnes of Gershon, by their families: Libni, and Shimei. 19 And the sonnes of Kohath by their families: Amram, and Izehar, Hebron and Uzziel. 20 And the sonnes of Merari by their families: Mahli, and Mushi: these are the families of the Leuites, according to the house of their fathers. 21 Of Gershon was the familie of the Libnites, and the familie of the Shimites: these are the families of the Gershonites. 22 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. 23 The families of the Gershonites shal pitch behind the Tabernacle Westward.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

word: Heb. mouth, Numbers 3:39, Numbers 3:51, Numbers 4:27, Numbers 4:37, Numbers 4:41, Numbers 4:45, Numbers 4:49, Genesis 45:21, Deuteronomy 21:5

Cross-References

Genesis 3:1
Now the serpent was more subtill then any beast of the field, which the LORD God had made, and he said vnto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of euery tree of the garden?
Genesis 3:6
And when the woman saw, that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she tooke of the fruit thereof, and did eate, and gaue also vnto her husband with her, and hee did eate.
Genesis 3:7
And the eyes of them both were opened, & they knew that they were naked, and they sewed figge leaues together, and made themselues aprons.
Genesis 3:8
And they heard the voyce of the LORD God, walking in the garden in the coole of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselues from the presence of the LORD God, amongst the trees of the garden.
Genesis 3:9
And the LORD God called vnto Adam, and said vnto him, Where art thou?
Genesis 3:10
And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden: and I was afraid, because I was naked, and I hid my selfe.
Genesis 3:11
And he said, Who told thee, that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee, that thou shouldest not eate?
Genesis 3:12
And the man said, The woman whom thou gauest to be with mee, shee gaue me of the tree, and I did eate.
Genesis 3:16
Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorowe and thy conception. In sorow thou shalt bring forth children: and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and hee shall rule ouer thee.
Genesis 3:17
And vnto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened vnto the voyce of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commaunded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eate of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake: in sorow shalt thou eate of it all the dayes of thy life.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Moses numbered them according to the word of the Lord,.... Took the account of all of a month old in the several houses and families of the tribe of Levi; though Moses is only here mentioned, yet it seems from Numbers 3:39; that Aaron was concerned with him in it; yea, in an after numbering of the Levites who were fit for business from thirty to fifty years of age, the chief of the children of Israel were assisting to him and Aaron, Numbers 4:46;

as he commanded; he was obedient to the divine will in all things, and so in this, though it was his own tribe and his own posterity, which in all successive ages were to be no other than ministering servants to the priests, and to have no inheritance in the land of Israel.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Numbers 3:16. Moses numbered them — Though Moses and Aaron conjointly numbered the twelve tribes, yet Moses alone numbered the Levites; "for as the money with which the first-born of Israel, who exceeded the number of Levites, were redeemed, was to be paid to Aaron and his sons, Numbers 3:48, it was decent that he, whose advantage it was that the number of the first-born of Israel should exceed, should not be authorized to take that number himself." - Dodd, from Bishop Kidder.


 
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