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Legacy Standard Bible

Numbers 3:14

Then Yahweh spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, saying,

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;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Deuel;   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;   Horeb;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - First-Born;  

Encyclopedias:

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

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
The LORD spoke to Moshe in the wilderness of Sinai, saying,
King James Version
And the Lord spake unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, saying,
Lexham English Bible
Yahweh spoke to Moses in the desert of Sinai, saying,
New Century Version
The Lord again said to Moses in the Desert of Sinai,
New English Translation
Then the Lord spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai:
Amplified Bible
Then the LORD spoke to Moses in the Wilderness of Sinai, saying,
New American Standard Bible
Then the LORD spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, saying,
Geneva Bible (1587)
Moreouer, the Lord spake vnto Moses in the wildernesse of Sinai, saying,
Contemporary English Version
In the Sinai Desert the Lord said to Moses,
Complete Jewish Bible
(v) Adonai said to Moshe in the Sinai Desert,
Darby Translation
And Jehovah spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, saying,
Easy-to-Read Version
The Lord again said to Moses in the desert of Sinai,
English Standard Version
And the Lord spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, saying,
George Lamsa Translation
And the LORD spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, saying,
Good News Translation
In the Sinai Desert the Lord commanded Moses
Christian Standard Bible®
The Lord spoke to Moses in the Wilderness of Sinai:
Literal Translation
And Jehovah spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, saying,
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And the LORDE spake vnto Moses in the wyldernesse of Sinai, and sayde:
American Standard Version
And Jehovah spake unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, saying,
Bible in Basic English
And the Lord said to Moses in the waste land of Sinai,
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And the Lorde spake vnto Moyses in the wyldernesse of Sinai, saying:
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And the LORD spoke unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, saying:
King James Version (1611)
And the Lord spake vnto Moses, in the wildernesse of Sinai, saying,
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And the Lord spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sina, saying,
English Revised Version
And the LORD spake unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, saying,
Berean Standard Bible
Then the LORD spoke to Moses in the Wilderness of Sinai, saying,
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And the Lord spak to Moises in the deseert
Young's Literal Translation
And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, saying,
Update Bible Version
And Yahweh spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, saying,
Webster's Bible Translation
And the LORD spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, saying,
World English Bible
Yahweh spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, saying,
New King James Version
Numbers 1:47-54">[xr] Then the LORD spoke to Moses in the Wilderness of Sinai, saying:
New Living Translation
The Lord spoke again to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai. He said,
New Life Bible
Then the Lord said to Moses in the Desert of Sinai,
New Revised Standard
Then the Lord spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, saying:
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Then spake Yahweh unto Moses, in the desert of Sinai, saying: -
Douay-Rheims Bible
And the Lord spoke to Moses in the desert of Sinai, saying:
Revised Standard Version
And the LORD said to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai,
THE MESSAGE
God spoke to Moses in the Wilderness of Sinai: "Count the Levites by their ancestral families and clans. Count every male a month old and older." Moses counted them just as he was instructed by the mouth of God .
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Then the LORD spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, saying,

Contextual Overview

14Then Yahweh spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, saying, 15"Number the sons of Levi by their fathers' households, by their families; every male from a month old and upward you shall number." 16So Moses numbered them according to the word of Yahweh, just as he had been commanded. 17These then are the sons of Levi by their names: Gershon and Kohath and Merari. 18And these are the names of the sons of Gershon by their families: Libni and Shimei; 19and the sons of Kohath by their families: Amram and Izhar, Hebron and Uzziel; 20and the sons of Merari by their families: Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites according to their fathers' households. 21Of Gershon was the family of the Libnites and the family of the Shimeites; these were the families of the Gershonites. 22Their numbered men, in the numbering of every male from a month old and upward, even their numbered men were 7,500. 23The families of the Gershonites were to camp behind the tabernacle westward,

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Cross-References

Genesis 3:1
Now the serpent was more crafty than any beast of the field which Yahweh God had made. And he said to the woman, "Indeed, has God said, ‘You shall not eat from any tree of the garden'?"
Genesis 3:15
And I will put enmityBetween you and the woman,And between your seed and her seed;He shall bruise you on the head,And you shall bruise him on the heel."
Genesis 3:20
Now the man called his wife's name Eve, because she was the mother of all the living.
Genesis 9:6
Whoever sheds man's blood,By man his blood shall be shed,For in the image of GodHe made man.
Leviticus 20:25
You are therefore to separate between the clean animal and the unclean, and between the unclean bird and the clean; and you shall not make yourselves detestable by animal or by bird or by anything that creeps on the ground, which I have separated for you as unclean.
Psalms 72:9
Let the desert creatures kneel before him,And his enemies lick the dust.
Isaiah 29:4
Then you will be brought low;From the earth you will speak,And from the dust where you are prostrateYour words will come.Your voice will also be like that of a spirit from the ground,And your speech will whisper from the dust.
Isaiah 65:25
The wolf and the lamb will graze together, and the lion will eat straw like the ox; and dust will be the serpent's food. They will do no evil nor act corruptly in all My holy mountain," says Yahweh.
Micah 7:17
They will lick the dust like a serpent,Like crawling things of the earth.They will come trembling out of their fortresses;To Yahweh our God they will come in dread,And they will be afraid before You.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the Lord spake unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai,.... At the same time he gave the order, and made the declaration before mentioned, and in the place where now the children of Israel were, and from whence they shortly removed:

saying; as follows.


 
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