Numbers 26:51
49 the Jezerite clan from Jezer, and the Shillemite clan from Shillem.
50 These were the clans of Naphtali, and their registration numbered 45,400.
These men of Israel numbered 601,730 in all.
52 Then the LORD said to Moses,
53 “The land is to be divided among the tribes as an inheritance, according to the number of names.
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Compare
- BSB
- These men of Israel numbered 601,730 in all.
- KJV
- These were the numbered of the children of Israel, six hundred thousand and a thousand seven hundred and thirty.
- WEB
- These are those who were counted of the children of Israel, six hundred one thousand seven hundred thirty.
- ASV
- These are they that were numbered of the children of Israel, six hundred thousand and a thousand seven hundred and thirty.
- DARBY
- These were the numbered of the children of Israel, six hundred and one thousand seven hundred and thirty.
- BLB
- These [were] numbered ones of the sons of Israel, six hundred thousand and a thousand seven hundred and thirty.
- ÅB
- Dette var de av Israels barn som ble mønstret, seks hundre og ett tusen, syv hundre og tretti.
- OTB
- Det totale antallet av de israelittene som ble talt, var 601 730.
- B1930
- Dette var de av Israels barn som blev mønstret, seks hundre og ett tusen, syv hundre og tretti.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Numbers 1:46
And all those counted totaled 603,550.
Read in contextJob 12:9–10
Which of all these does not know that the hand of the LORD has done this?
Read in contextJob 12:14
What He tears down cannot be rebuilt; the man He imprisons cannot be released.
Read in contextNumbers 11:21
But Moses replied, “Here I am among 600,000 men on foot, yet You say, ‘I will give them meat, and they will eat for a month.’
Read in contextJob 12:20–23
He deprives the trusted of speech and takes away the discernment of elders.
Read in contextNehemiah 9:23
You multiplied their descendants like the stars of heaven and brought them to the land You had told their fathers to enter and possess.
Read in contextPsalms 77:20
You led Your people like a flock by the hand of Moses and Aaron.
Read in contextExodus 38:26
a beka per person, that is, half a shekel, according to the sanctuary shekel, from everyone twenty years of age or older who had crossed over to be numbered, a total of 603,550 men.
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