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Text -- Numbers 1:1-18 (NET)
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Organizing the Census of the Israelites
1:1 Now the Lord spoke to Moses in the tent of meeting in the wilderness of Sinai on the first day of the second month of the second year after the Israelites departed from the land of Egypt . He said :
1:2 “Take a census of the entire Israelite community by their clans and families , counting the name of every individual male .
1:3 You and Aaron are to number all in Israel who can serve in the army , those who are twenty years old or older , by their divisions .
1:4 And to help you there is to be a man from each tribe , each man the head of his family .
1:5 Now these are the names of the men who are to help you: from Reuben , Elizur son of Shedeur ;
1:6 from Simeon , Shelumiel son of Zurishaddai ;
1:7 from Judah , Nahshon son of Amminadab ;
1:8 from Issachar , Nethanel son of Zuar ;
1:9 from Zebulun , Eliab son of Helon ;
1:10 from the sons of Joseph : from Ephraim , Elishama son of Ammihud ; from Manasseh , Gamaliel son of Pedahzur ;
1:11 from Benjamin , Abidan son of Gideoni ;
1:12 from Dan , Ahiezer son of Ammishaddai ;
1:13 from Asher , Pagiel son of Ocran ;
1:14 from Gad , Eliasaph son of Deuel ;
1:15 from Naphtali , Ahira son of Enan .”
The Census of the Tribes
1:16 These were the ones chosen from the community , leaders of their ancestral tribes . They were the heads of the thousands of Israel .
1:17 So Moses and Aaron took these men who had been mentioned specifically by name ,
1:18 and they assembled the entire community together on the first day of the second month . Then the people recorded their ancestry by their clans and families , and the men who were twenty years old or older were listed by name individually ,
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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics
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Names, People and Places:
Dictionary Themes and Topics:
PENTATEUCH, 2A |
LAW IN THE OLD TESTAMENT |
ISRAEL, HISTORY OF, 1 |
PENTATEUCH, 2B |
Census |
Soldiers |
Israel |
EXODUS, THE BOOK OF, 3-4 |
GENEALOGY, 8 part 1 |
Government |
Amminadab |
Zurishaddai |
Abidan |
Pagiel |
Eliab |
Helon |
Elishama |
Ahiezer |
Gamaliel |
Ammihud |
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NET Notes -> Num 1:1; Num 1:1; Num 1:1; Num 1:1; Num 1:1; Num 1:1; Num 1:1; Num 1:1; Num 1:1; Num 1:1; Num 1:2; Num 1:2; Num 1:2; Num 1:2; Num 1:2; Num 1:3; Num 1:3; Num 1:3; Num 1:3; Num 1:3; Num 1:4; Num 1:4; Num 1:4; Num 1:4; Num 1:4; Num 1:5; Num 1:5; Num 1:6; Num 1:7; Num 1:14; Num 1:16; Num 1:16; Num 1:16; Num 1:16; Num 1:18; Num 1:18; Num 1:18; Num 1:18
NET Notes: Num 1:1 Heb “saying.” A new sentence was started here in the English translation for stylistic reasons.
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NET Notes: Num 1:2 This clause simply has “in/with the number of the names of every male with respect to their skulls [individually].” Counting heads, or eve...
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NET Notes: Num 1:3 The noun (צָבָא, tsava’) means “army” or “military group.” But the word can also be used f...
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NET Notes: Num 1:5 The preposition lamed (ל) prefixed to the name could be taken in the sense of “from,” but could also be “with regard to”...
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NET Notes: Num 1:6 This name and the name Ammishaddai below have the theophoric element (שַׁדַּי, shadday, “the Almighty&...
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NET Notes: Num 1:7 Nahshon was an ancestor of Boaz and David, and therefore of Christ (Luke 3:32-33).
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NET Notes: Num 1:14 There is a textual difficulty with this verb. The Greek form uses r and not d, giving the name Ra‘oul. There is even some variation in the Hebre...
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NET Notes: Num 1:16 The Hebrew text has אַלְפֵי (’alfey, “thousands of”). There is some question over this rea...
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