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Literal Standard Version

Numbers 3:14

And YHWH speaks 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,
Legacy Standard Bible
Then Yahweh spoke to Moses in the wilderness 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

14And YHWH speaks to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, saying,15"Number the sons of Levi by the house of their fathers, by their families; every male from a son of a month and upward—you number them." 16And Moses numbers them according to the command of YHWH, as he has been commanded. 17And these 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, by the house of their fathers. 21Of Gershon—the family of the Libnite and the family of the Shimite; these are the families of the Gershonite. 22Their numbered ones, in number, every male from a son of a month and upward, their numbered ones [are] seven thousand and five hundred. 23The families of the Gershonite encamp westward behind the Dwelling Place.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Cross-References

Genesis 3:1
And the serpent has been cunning above every beast of the field which YHWH God has made, and he says to the woman, "Is it true that God has said, You do not eat from every tree of the garden?"
Genesis 3:15
and I put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her Seed; He bruises your head, and you bruise His heel."
Genesis 3:20
And the man calls his wife's name Eve, for she has been mother of all living.
Genesis 9:6
whoever sheds man's blood, by man is his blood shed: for in the image of God has He made man.
Leviticus 20:25
And you have made separation between the pure beasts and the unclean, and between the unclean bird and the pure, and you do not make yourselves abominable by beast or by bird, or by anything which creeps [on] the ground which I have separated to you for unclean.
Psalms 72:9
Desert-dwellers bow before Him, || And His enemies lick the dust.
Isaiah 29:4
And you have been low, || You speak from the earth, || And make your saying low from the dust, || And your voice has been from the earth, || As one having a familiar spirit, || And your saying whispers from the dust,
Isaiah 65:25
Wolf and lamb feed as one, || And a lion eats straw as an ox, || As for the serpent—its food [is] dust, || They do no evil, nor destroy, || In all My holy mountain," said YHWH!
Micah 7:17
They lick dust as a serpent, as fearful things of earth, || They tremble from their enclosures, || They are afraid of our God YHWH, || Indeed, they are afraid of 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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