Numbers 1:1-15

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wilderness <04057> [wilderness.]

tent <0168> [tabernacle.]

first ..... second ..... second ... after <0259 08145> [on the first day.]

As the tabernacle was erected on the first day of the first month, in the second year of their departure from Egypt, (Ex 40:17,) and this happened on the first day of the second month, in the same year, it is evident that the transactions related in the preceding book must all have taken place in the space of one month, and during the time the Israelites were encamped at mount Sinai.

1:2

Take ... census <05375 07218> [Take ye the sum.]

This numbering was probably intended to illustrate the Divine faithfulness in thus increasing the seed of Abraham; to prepare them to preserve due order in their march; and to distinguish the tribes and families.

Israelite <01121> [the children.]

clans <04940> [after.]

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twenty <06242> [twenty.]

serve <03318> [able.]

army ............ divisions <06635> [by their.]

1:4

1:5

Elizur <0468> [Elizur.]

1:6

Shelumiel <08017> [Shelumiel.]

1:7

Nahshon <05177> [Nahshon.]

[Naasson.]

1:8

Nethanel <05417> [Nethaneel.]

1:9

Eliab <0446> [Eliab.]

1:10

Elishama <0476> [Elishama.]

Gamaliel <01583> [Gamaliel.]

1:11

Abidan <027> [Abidan.]

1:12

Ahiezer <0295> [Ahiezer.]

1:13

Pagiel <06295> [Pagiel.]

1:14

Eliasaph <0460> [Eliasaph.]

son <01121> [Son of Reuel.]

Deuel <01845> [Deuel.]

As the [d,] {daleth} is very like the [r,] {resh,} they might be easily mistaken for each other; and hence this person being called both D‰uel and R‰uel, may be easily accounted for. The Septuagint and Syriac have Reuel, in this chapter; and in ch. 2:14, the Samaritan, Vulgate, and Arabic have Deuel, instead of Reuel, with which reading a vast number of MSS. concur, and which is also supported by ch. 7:42, 10:20. We may therefore safely conclude, the D‰uel, and not R‰uel, was the original reading.

1:15

Ahira <0299> [Ahira.]