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Numbers 1:45 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" So all those who were counted of the children of Israel by their fathers’ houses, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war in Israel— "
Numbers 1:45
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43 those who were counted of them, of the tribe of Naphtali, were fifty-three thousand four hundred.
44 These are those who were counted, whom Moses and Aaron counted, and the twelve men who were princes of Israel, each one for his fathers’ house.
45 So all those who were counted of the children of Israel by their fathers’ houses, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war in Israel—
46 all those who were counted were six hundred three thousand five hundred fifty.
47 But the Levites after the tribe of their fathers were not counted among them.
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Numbers 1:1
"The LORD spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the Tent of Meeting, on the first day of the second month, in the second year after they had come out of the land of Egypt, saying,"
Numbers 1:2
"“Take a census of all the congregation of the children of Israel, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, every male, one by one,"
Numbers 1:3
"from twenty years old and upward, all who are able to go out to war in Israel. You and Aaron shall count them by their divisions."
Numbers 1:4
"With you there shall be a man of every tribe, each one head of his fathers’ house."
Numbers 1:5
"These are the names of the men who shall stand with you: Of Reuben: Elizur the son of Shedeur."
Numbers 1:6
"Of Simeon: Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai."
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