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La Bibbia di Giovanni Diodati

Numeri 1:44

Questi furono gli annoverati, i quali Mosè ed Aaronne annoverarono, insieme co’ principali d’Israele, ch’erano dodici uomini, uno per famiglia paterna.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

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

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Number;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Palestine;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Genealogies;   Number Systems and Number Symbolism;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Moses;   Numbers, Book of;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Census;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Events of the Encampment;   Last Days at Sinai;   On to Canaan;   Moses, the Man of God;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Genealogy;   Sidra;  

Parallel Translations

Riveduta Bibbia
Questi son quelli di cui Mosè ed Aaronne fecero il censimento, coi dodici uomini, principi d’Israele: ce n’era uno per ognuna delle case de’ loro padri.
La Nuova Diodati
Questi furono quelli recensiti da Mos ed Aaronne, assieme ai dodici uomini, principi dIsraele, ognuno di essi rappresentante della casa di suo padre.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Numbers 1:2-16, Numbers 26:64

Gill's Notes on the Bible

These [are] those that were numbered,.... Or, as the Targum of Jonathan, these are the sums of the numbers; namely, those before given of the several respective tribes:

which Moses and Aaron numbered, and the princes of Israel, [being] twelve men; for though the tribe of Levi was not numbered, yet Joseph having a double portion, his two sons are reckoned as distinct tribes; so that one out of each tribe made up the number twelve:

each one for the house of his fathers; for the tribe he belonged to, with which it might reasonably be supposed he was best acquainted, and could more readily take the number of them.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The enrollment, being taken principally for military purposes (compare Numbers 1:3, Numbers 1:20), would naturally be arranged by hundreds, fifties, etc. (cf. 2Ki 1:9, 2 Kings 1:11, 2 Kings 1:13). In eleven tribes the number enrolled consists of complete hundreds. The difference, in this respect, observable in the case of the tribe of Gad here Numbers 1:25, and of the tribe of Reuben at the later census Numbers 26:7, is probably to be accounted for by the pastoral, and consequently nomadic, habits of these tribes, which rendered it difficult to bring all their members together at once for a census. Judah already takes precedence of his brethren in point of numbers (compare Genesis 49:8 note), and Ephraim of Manasseh (compare Genesis 48:19-20).


 
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