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Douay-Rheims Bible

Numbers 2:9

All that were numbered in the camp of Juda, were a hundred and eighty-six thousand four hundred: and they by their troops shall march first.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Amminadab;   Judah;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Desert, Journey of Israel through the;   Tribes of Israel, the;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Judah, tribe and kingdom;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Jews, Judaism;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Camp;   Judah, Tribe of;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Judah;   Shiloh (1);   Holman Bible Dictionary - Tribes of Israel, the;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Moses;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Captain;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Army;   Camp and encamp;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Events of the Encampment;   Last Days at Sinai;   On to Canaan;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Zebulun;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Ark of the Covenant;   Breastplate of the High Priest;   Michael;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
All who were numbered of the camp of Yehudah were one hundred eighty-six thousand four hundred, according to their divisions. They shall set out first.
King James Version
All that were numbered in the camp of Judah were an hundred thousand and fourscore thousand and six thousand and four hundred, throughout their armies. These shall first set forth.
Lexham English Bible
All those counted from the camp of Judah are one hundred and eighty-six thousand four hundred. They will set out first according to their divisions.
New Century Version
There are a total of 186,400 men in the camps of Judah and its neighbors, in all their divisions. They will be the first to march out of camp.
New English Translation
All those numbered of the camp of Judah, according to their divisions, are 186,400. They will travel at the front.
Amplified Bible
"The total of the numbered men [in the three tribes on the east side] in the camp of Judah was 186,400, by their armies. They shall move out first [on the march].
New American Standard Bible
"The total of the numbered men of the camp of Judah: 186,400, by their armies. They shall set out first.
Geneva Bible (1587)
The whole nomber of the hoste of Iudah are an hundreth fourescore and sixe thousande, and foure hundreth according to their armies: they shall first set foorth.
Legacy Standard Bible
The total of the numbered men of the camp of Judah: 186,400, by their armies. They shall set out first.
Contemporary English Version
These 186,400 troops will march into battle first.
Complete Jewish Bible
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Darby Translation
All that were numbered of the camp of Judah were a hundred and eighty-six thousand four hundred, according to their hosts. They shall set forth first.
Easy-to-Read Version
"The total number of men in Judah's camp is 186,400. All these men are divided into their different tribes. Judah will be the first group to move when the people travel from one place to another.
English Standard Version
All those listed of the camp of Judah, by their companies, were 186,400. They shall set out first on the march.
George Lamsa Translation
The total number of the camp of Judah was one hundred and eighty-six thousand and four hundred, throughout their armies. They shall march first.
Good News Translation
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Christian Standard Bible®
The total number in their military divisions who belong to Judah’s encampment is 186,400; they will move out first.
Literal Translation
All numbered of the camp of Judah were a hundred and eighty six thousand and four hundred, by their armies. They shall set forth first.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
So yt all they which beloge to ye hoost of Iuda, be in the summe an C. sixe and foure score thousande, & foure hundreth be longinge to their armye, & they shall go before.
American Standard Version
All that were numbered of the camp of Judah were a hundred thousand and fourscore thousand and six thousand and four hundred, according to their hosts. They shall set forth first.
Bible in Basic English
The number of all the armies of Judah was a hundred and eighty-six thousand, four hundred. They go forward first.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
So that the whole number of the whole hoast of Iuda, are an hundred thousande, fourscore and sixe thousand, and foure hundred, throughout their armies: and these shall first moue.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
all that were numbered of the camp of Judah being a hundred thousand and fourscore thousand and six thousand and four hundred, according to their hosts; they shall set forth first.
King James Version (1611)
All that were numbred in the Campe of Iudah, were an hundred thousand, and fourescore thousand, and sixe thousand, and foure hundred, throughout their armies: these shall first set foorth.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
All that were numbered of the camp of Juda were a hundred and eighty thousand and six thousand and four hundred: they shall move first with their forces.
English Revised Version
All that were numbered of the camp of Judah were an hundred thousand and fourscore thousand and six thousand and four hundred, according to their hosts. They shall set forth first.
Berean Standard Bible
The total number of men in the divisions of the camp of Judah is 186,400; they shall set out first.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Alle that weren noumbrid in the castels of Judas, weren an hundrid thousynde `foure scoore thousynde and sixe and foure hundrid; and thei schulen go out the firste bi her cumpanyes.
Young's Literal Translation
all those numbered of the camp of Judah [are] a hundred thousand, and eighty thousand, and six thousand, and four hundred, by their hosts; they journey first.
Update Bible Version
All that were numbered of the camp of Judah were 186,400 according to their hosts. They shall set forth first.
Webster's Bible Translation
All that were numbered in the camp of Judah [were] a hundred thousand and eighty thousand and six thousand and four hundred throughout their armies: these shall first move forward.
World English Bible
All who were numbered of the camp of Judah were one hundred eighty-six thousand four hundred, according to their divisions. They shall set out first.
New King James Version
"All who were numbered according to their armies of the forces with Judah, one hundred and eighty-six thousand four hundred--these shall break camp first.
New Living Translation
So the total of all the troops on Judah's side of the camp is 186,400. These three tribes are to lead the way whenever the Israelites travel to a new campsite.
New Life Bible
The whole number among the tents of Judah is 186,400, by their armies. They will be first to move on.
New Revised Standard
The total enrollment of the camp of Judah, by companies, is one hundred eighty-six thousand four hundred. They shall set out first on the march.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
All they who are num-bered to the camp of Judah. a hundred and eighty-six thousand four hundred, by their hosts, shall first set forward.
Revised Standard Version
The whole number of the camp of Judah, by their companies, is a hundred and eighty-six thousand four hundred. They shall set out first on the march.
THE MESSAGE
The total number of men assigned to Judah, troop by troop, is 186,400. They will lead the march.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"The total of the numbered men of the camp of Judah: 186,400, by their armies. They shall set out first.

Contextual Overview

3 On the east Juda shall pitch his tents by the bands of his army: and the prince of his sons; shall be Nahasson the son of Aminadab. 4 And the whole sum of the fighting men of his stock, were seventy-four thousand six hundred. 5 Next unto him they of the tribe of Issachar encamped, whose prince was Nathanael, the son of Suar. 6 And the whole number of his fighting men were fifty-four thousand four hundred. 7 In the tribe of Zabulon the prince was Eliab the son of Helon. 8 And all the army of fighting men of his stock, were fifty-seven thousand four hundred. 9 All that were numbered in the camp of Juda, were a hundred and eighty-six thousand four hundred: and they by their troops shall march first. 10 In the camp of the sons of Ruben, on the south side, the prince shall be Elisur the son of Sedeur: 11 And the whole army of his fighting men, that were numbered, were forty-six thousand five hundred. 12 Beside him camped they of the tribe of Simeon: whose prince was Salamiel the son of Surisaddai.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

These shall: Numbers 10:14

Reciprocal: Numbers 2:16 - an hundred Numbers 2:24 - an hundred Numbers 2:31 - an hundred Numbers 2:32 - General Numbers 3:34 - General Numbers 23:10 - the fourth

Cross-References

Genesis 2:8
And the Lord God had planted a paradise of pleasure from the beginning: wherein he placed man whom he had formed.
Genesis 2:9
And the Lord God brought forth of the ground all manner of trees, fair to behold, and pleasant to eat of: the tree of life also in the midst of paradise: and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
Genesis 2:17
But of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat. For in what day soever thou shalt eat of it, thou shalt die the death.
Genesis 3:3
But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of paradise, God hath commanded us that we should not eat; and that we should not touch it, lest perhaps we die.
Deuteronomy 6:25
And he will be merciful to us, if we keep and do all his precepts before the Lord our God, as he hath commanded us.
Proverbs 3:18
She is a tree of life to them that lay hold on her: and he that shall retain her is blessed.
Proverbs 11:30
The fruit of the just man is a tree of life: and he that gaineth souls is wise.
Isaiah 44:25
That make void the tokens of diviners, and make the soothsayers mad. That turn the wise backward, and that make their knowledge foolish.
Isaiah 47:10
And thou hast trusted in thy wickedness, and hast said: There is none that seeth me. Thy wisdom, and, thy knowledge, this hath deceived thee. And thou hast said in thy heart: I am, and besides me there is no other.
Ezekiel 31:16
I shook the nations with the sound of his fall, when I brought him down to hell with them that descend into the pit: and all the trees of pleasure, the choice and best in Libanus, all that were moistened with waters, were comforted in the lowest parts of the earth.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

All that were numbered in the camp of Judah [were] an hundred thousand and fourscore thousand and six thousand and four hundred,

throughout their armies,.... 186,400 men. The sum total of the three tribes, which formed that camp: this was the largest camp of them all, being near 30,000 more than Dan's, Numbers 2:31, which was the next in number unto it, and therefore placed foremost, and as the vanguard to the tabernacle:

these shall first set forth; in a march, when about to journey; when they saw the cloud remove, the priests blew with the trumpets, and then the camp of Judah moved first, as Jarchi observes, and when they went out to fight, Judah went up first, Judges 1:1.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The following plan shows the general arrangement of the camp, which would vary in different places according to local exigencies. The area of the camp might be about three square miles:

Numbers 2:14

Reuel - Doubtless an error of transcription for Deuel Numbers 1:14.


 
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