Numbers 1:18

They assembled all the congregation together on the first day of the second month; and they declared their ancestry by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, one by one.

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WEBBE

They assembled all the congregation together on the first day of the second month; and they declared their ancestry by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, one by one.

BSB

and on the first day of the second month they assembled the whole congregation and recorded their ancestry by clans and families, counting one by one the names of those twenty years of age or older,

KJV

And they assembled all the congregation together on the first day of the second month, and they declared their pedigrees after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, by their polls.

ASV

and they assembled all the congregation together on the first day of the second month; and they declared their pedigrees after their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, by their polls.

BBE

And they got together all the people on the first day of the second month; and everyone made clear his family and his father's house, by the number of the names, from twenty years old and over.

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וְאֵת ve·'et and (marks the object) H853 כָּל־ kol- all H3605 הָעֵדָה ha·'e·dah the congregation H5712 הִקְהִילוּ hik·hi·lu they summoned H6950 בְּאֶחָד be·'e·chad on [day] one H259 לַחֹדֶשׁ la·cho·desh of the month H2320 הַשֵּׁנִי ha·she·ni (the) second H8145 וַיִּתְיַלְדוּ vai·yit·yal·du and they recorded their ancestry H3205 עַל־ 'al- on H5921 מִשְׁפְּחֹתָם mish·pe·cho·tam clans their H4940 לְבֵית le·veit to [the] house of H1004 אֲבֹתָם 'a·vo·tam ancestors their H1 בְּמִסְפַּר be·mis·par by [the] number of H4557 שֵׁמוֹת she·mot names H8034 מִבֶּן mi·ben from a son of H1121 עֶשְׂרִים 'es·rim twenty H6242 שָׁנָה sha·nah year[s] H8141 וָמַעְלָה va·ma'·lah and up -wards H4605 לְגֻלְגְּלֹתָם le·gul·ge·lo·tam to heads their H1538

Commentary

Matthew Henry · Verses 1–43

The people were numbered to show God's faithfulness in thus increasing the seed of Jacob, that they might be the better trained for the wars and conquest of Canaan, and to ascertain their families in order to the division of the land. It is said of each tribe, that those were numbered who were able to go forth to war; they had wars before them, though now they met with no opposition. Let the believer be prepared to withstand the enemies of his soul, though all may appear to be peace.

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Cross-references: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Hebrew and Greek data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge), CC BY 4.0. Library: sources.