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Numbers 1:14

From Gad, Eliasaph son of Deuel.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Deuel;   Eliasaph;   Gad;   Government;   Israel;   Reuel;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Desert, Journey of Israel through the;   Gad, the Tribe of;   Tribes of Israel, the;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Agag;   Jazer;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Deuel;   Eliasaph;   Reuel;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Deuel;   Eliasaph;   Genealogies;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Deuel;   Eliasaph;   Moses;   Reuel;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Census;   Deuel ;   Eliasaph ;   Poll;   Reuel ;   Smith Bible Dictionary - De'uel,;   Eli'asaph;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Zebulun;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Events of the Encampment;   Last Days at Sinai;   On to Canaan;   Moses, the Man of God;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Deuel;   Eliasaph;   Exodus, the Book of;   Gad (1);   Reuel;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Genealogy;   Hafṭarah;   Sidra;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
Of Gad: Elyasaf the son of De`u'el.
King James Version
Of Gad; Eliasaph the son of Deuel.
Lexham English Bible
from Gad, Eliasaph son of Deuel;
New Century Version
from the tribe of Gad—Eliasaph son of Deuel;
New English Translation
from Gad, Eliasaph son of Deuel;
Amplified Bible
from [the tribe of] Gad, Eliasaph the son of Deuel;
New American Standard Bible
of Gad, Eliasaph the son of Deuel;
Geneva Bible (1587)
Of Gad, Eliasaph, the sonne of Deuel:
Legacy Standard Bible
of Gad, Eliasaph the son of Deuel;
Complete Jewish Bible
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Darby Translation
for Gad, Eliasaph the son of Deuel;
Easy-to-Read Version
from the tribe of Gad—Eliasaph son of Deuel;
English Standard Version
from Gad, Eliasaph the son of Deuel;
George Lamsa Translation
Of Gad, Eliasaph the son of Reuel.
Good News Translation
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Christian Standard Bible®
Eliasaph son of Deuel from Gad;
Literal Translation
of Gad, Eliasaph the son of Deuel;
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Of Gad, Eliasaph ye sonne of Deguel.
American Standard Version
Of Gad: Eliasaph the son of Deuel.
Bible in Basic English
From Gad, Eliasaph, the son of Reuel;
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Of Gad, Elisah the sonne of Duel.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Of Gad, Eliasaph the son of Deuel.
King James Version (1611)
Of Gad: Eliasaph, the sonne of Deuel.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Of Gad, Elisaph the son of Raguel.
English Revised Version
Of Gad; Eliasaph the son of Deuel.
Berean Standard Bible
from Gad, Eliasaph son of Deuel;
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
of Gad, Elisaphan, the sone of Duel;
Young's Literal Translation
`For Gad -- Eliasaph son of Deuel.
Update Bible Version
Of Gad: Eliasaph the son of Deuel.
Webster's Bible Translation
Of Gad; Eliasaph the son of Deuel.
World English Bible
Of Gad: Eliasaph the son of Deuel.
New King James Version
from Gad, Eliasaph the son of Deuel; Numbers 2:14">[fn]
New Living Translation
Gad Eliasaph son of Deuel
New Life Bible
Deuel's son Eliasaph from Gad,
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Of Gad, Eliasaph son of Deuel;
Douay-Rheims Bible
Of Gad, Eliasaph the son of Duel.
Revised Standard Version
from Gad, Eli'asaph the son of Deu'el;
THE MESSAGE
from Gad: Eliasaph son of Deuel
New American Standard Bible (1995)
of Gad, Eliasaph the son of Deuel;

Contextual Overview

1 The Lord spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the tent of meeting, on the first day of the second month, in the second year after they had come out of the land of Egypt, saying: 2 Take a census of the whole congregation of Israelites, in their clans, by ancestral houses, according to the number of names, every male individually; 3 from twenty years old and upward, everyone in Israel able to go to war. You and Aaron shall enroll them, company by company. 4 A man from each tribe shall be with you, each man the head of his ancestral house. 5 These are the names of the men who shall assist you: From Reuben, Elizur son of Shedeur. 6 From Simeon, Shelumiel son of Zurishaddai. 7 From Judah, Nahshon son of Amminadab. 8 From Issachar, Nethanel son of Zuar. 9 From Zebulun, Eliab son of Helon. 10 From the sons of Joseph: from Ephraim, Elishama son of Ammihud; from Manasseh, Gamaliel son of Pedahzur.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Eliasaph: Numbers 7:42, Numbers 10:20, Son of Reuel, Numbers 2:14

Deuel: As the ד, daleth is very like the ר, resh, they might be easily mistaken for each other; and hence this person being called both Deuel and Reuel, may be easily accounted for. The Septuagint and Syriac have Reuel, in this chapter; and in Numbers 2:14, the Samaritan, Vulgate, and Arabic have Deuel, instead of Reuel, with which reading a vast number of manuscripts concur, and which is also supported by Numbers 7:42, Numbers 10:20. We may therefore safely conclude, the Deuel, and not Reuel, was the original reading.

Reciprocal: Jeremiah 11:19 - that his

Cross-References

Genesis 1:1
In the beginning when God created the heavens and the earth,
Genesis 1:2
the earth was a formless void and darkness covered the face of the deep, while a wind from God swept over the face of the waters.
Genesis 1:3
Then God said, "Let there be light"; and there was light.
Genesis 1:4
And God saw that the light was good; and God separated the light from the darkness.
Genesis 1:6
And God said, "Let there be a dome in the midst of the waters, and let it separate the waters from the waters."
Genesis 1:7
So God made the dome and separated the waters that were under the dome from the waters that were above the dome. And it was so.
Genesis 1:8
God called the dome Sky. And there was evening and there was morning, the second day.
Genesis 1:9
And God said, "Let the waters under the sky be gathered together into one place, and let the dry land appear." And it was so.
Genesis 1:12
The earth brought forth vegetation: plants yielding seed of every kind, and trees of every kind bearing fruit with the seed in it. And God saw that it was good.
Genesis 1:14
And God said, "Let there be lights in the dome of the sky to separate the day from the night; and let them be for signs and for seasons and for days and years,

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Of Gad; Eliasaph the son of Deuel. :-.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The princes of the tribes, selected Numbers 1:4 under divine direction, were for the most part the same persons as those chosen a few months previously at the counsel of Jethro Exodus 18:21-26. Nahshon, prince of Judah, is mentioned in Exodus 6:23, and Elishama, in 1 Chronicles 7:26-27. The peers of men like these were no doubt entitled, among their fellows, to the epithet “renowned,” Numbers 1:16.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Numbers 1:14. Eliasaph, the son of Deuel. — This person is called Reuel, Numbers 2:14. As the ד daleth is very like the ר resh, it was easy to mistake the one for the other. The Septuagint and the Syriac have Reuel in this chapter; and in Numbers 2:14, the Vulgate, the Samaritan, and the Arabic have Deuel instead of Reuel, with which reading a vast number of MSS. concur; and this reading is supported by Numbers 10:20; we may safely conclude therefore that דעואל Deuel, not רעואל Reuel, was the original reading. See Kennicott.

An ancient Jewish rabbin pretends to solve every difficulty by saying that "Eliasaph was a proselyte; that before he embraced the true faith he was called the son of Reuel, but that after his conversion he was called the son of Deuel." As Reuel may be translated the breach of God, and Deuel the knowledge of God, I suppose the rabbin grounded his supposition on the different meanings of the two words.


 
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