Numbers 26:51
49 Of Jezer, the family of the Jezerites: of Shillem, the family of the Shillemites.
50 These are the families of Naphtali according to their families: and they that were numbered of them were forty and five thousand and four hundred.
These were the numbered of the children of Israel, six hundred thousand and a thousand seven hundred and thirty.
52 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
53 Unto these the land shall be divided for an inheritance according to the number of names.
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
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
Even all they that were numbered were six hundred thousand and three thousand and five hundred and fifty.
Read in contextJob 12:9–10
Who knoweth not in all these that the hand of the LORD hath wrought this?
Read in contextJob 12:14
Behold, he breaketh down, and it cannot be built again: he shutteth up a man, and there can be no opening.
Read in contextNumbers 11:21
And Moses said, The people, among whom I am, are six hundred thousand footmen; and thou hast said, I will give them flesh, that they may eat a whole month.
Read in contextJob 12:20–23
He removeth away the speech of the trusty, and taketh away the understanding of the aged.
Read in contextNehemiah 9:23
Their children also multipliedst thou as the stars of heaven, and broughtest them into the land, concerning which thou hadst promised to their fathers, that they should go in to possess it.
Read in contextPsalms 77:20
Thou leddest thy people like a flock by the hand of Moses and Aaron.
Read in contextExodus 38:26
A bekah for every man, that is, half a shekel, after the shekel of the sanctuary, for every one that went to be numbered, from twenty years old and upward, for six hundred thousand and three thousand and five hundred and fifty men.
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