Numbers 1:1-2 1599 Geneva Bible
The Fourth Book of Moses, called [a]Numbers
1 2 Moses and Aaron with the twelve princes of the tribes are commanded of the Lord to number them that are able to go to war. 49 The Levites are exempted for the service of the Lord.
1 The Lord spake again unto Moses in the wilderness of [b]Sinai, in the Tabernacle of the Congregation, in the first day of the [c]second month, in the second year after they were come out of the land of Egypt, saying,
2 (A)Take ye the sum of all the Congregation of the children of Israel, after their families and households of their fathers, with the number of their names: to wit, all the males, [d]man by man:
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- Numbers 1:1 So called because of the diversity and multitude of numberings which are here chiefly contained, both of men’s names and places.
- Numbers 1:1 In that place of the wilderness that was near to mount Sinai.
- Numbers 1:1 Which contained part of April, and part of May.
- Numbers 1:2 Hebrew, by their heads.
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