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Numbers 3:16

So Moses numbered them according to the word of the LORD, as he had been commanded.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Census;   Levites;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Levites, the;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Levite;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Worship;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Levites;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Job;   Moses;   Priests and Levites;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - First-Begotten, First-Born,;   Levites ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Camp and encamp;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - First-Born;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Last Days at Sinai;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Moses;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Hafá¹­arah;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
Moshe numbered them according to the word of the LORD, as he was commanded.
King James Version
And Moses numbered them according to the word of the Lord , as he was commanded.
Lexham English Bible
So Moses mustered them according to the command of Yahweh, just as he commanded.
New Century Version
So Moses obeyed the Lord and counted them all.
New English Translation
So Moses numbered them according to the word of the Lord , just as he had been commanded.
Amplified Bible
So Moses numbered them just as he was commanded by the word (mouth) of the LORD.
New American Standard Bible
So Moses counted them according to the word of the LORD, just as he had been commanded.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Then Moses nombred them according to the word of the Lord, as he was commanded.
Legacy Standard Bible
So Moses numbered them according to the word of Yahweh, just as he had been commanded.
Contemporary English Version
So Moses obeyed and counted them.
Complete Jewish Bible
Moshe counted them in the manner Adonai had said, as he had been ordered.
Darby Translation
And Moses numbered them, according to the commandment of Jehovah,—as he had been commanded.
Easy-to-Read Version
So Moses obeyed the Lord . He counted them all.
English Standard Version
So Moses listed them according to the word of the Lord , as he was commanded.
George Lamsa Translation
So Moses numbered them according to the word of the LORD, as he was commanded.
Good News Translation
and Moses did so.
Christian Standard Bible®
So Moses registered them in obedience to the Lord as he had been commanded:
Literal Translation
And Moses numbered them according to the command of Jehovah, as he had been commanded.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
So Moses nombred them acordinge to the worde of the LORDE, as he had commaunded.
American Standard Version
And Moses numbered them according to the word of Jehovah, as he was commanded.
Bible in Basic English
So Moses did as the Lord said, numbering them as he had been ordered.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And Moyses numbred them, according to the worde of the Lorde, as he was commaunded.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And Moses numbered them according to the word of the LORD, as he was commanded.
King James Version (1611)
And Moses numbred them according to the word of the Lord, as he was commanded.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And Moses and Aaron numbered them by the word of the Lord, as the Lord commanded them.
English Revised Version
And Moses numbered them according to the word of the LORD, as he was commanded.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Moises noumbride, as the Lord comaundide.
Young's Literal Translation
And Moses numbereth them according to the command of Jehovah, as he hath been commanded.
Update Bible Version
And Moses numbered them according to the word of Yahweh, as it was commanded.
Webster's Bible Translation
And Moses numbered them according to the word of the LORD, as he was commanded.
World English Bible
Moses numbered them according to the word of Yahweh, as he was commanded.
New King James Version
So Moses numbered them according to the word of the LORD, as he was commanded.
New Living Translation
So Moses listed them, just as the Lord had commanded.
New Life Bible
So Moses numbered them just as he had been told by the word of the Lord.
New Revised Standard
So Moses enrolled them according to the word of the Lord , as he was commanded.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
So then Moses numbered them according to the bidding of Yahweh, - as he was commanded.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Moses numbered them as the Lord had commanded.
Revised Standard Version
So Moses numbered them according to the word of the LORD, as he was commanded.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
So Moses numbered them according to the word of the LORD, just as he had been commanded.

Contextual Overview

14Then the LORD spoke to Moses in the Wilderness of Sinai, saying, 15"Register the Levites by their families and clans. You are to count every male a month old or more." 16So Moses numbered them according to the word of the LORD, as he had been commanded.17These were the sons of Levi by name: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari. 18These were the names of the sons of Gershon by their clans: Libni and Shimei. 19The sons of Kohath by their clans were Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel. 20And the sons of Merari by their clans were Mahli and Mushi. These were the clans of the Levites, according to their families. 21From Gershon came the Libnite clan and the Shimeite clan; these were the Gershonite clans. 22The number of all the males a month old or more was 7,500. 23The Gershonite clans were to camp on the west, behind the tabernacle,

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

word: Heb. mouth, Numbers 3:39, Numbers 3:51, Numbers 4:27, Numbers 4:37, Numbers 4:41, Numbers 4:45, Numbers 4:49, Genesis 45:21, Deuteronomy 21:5

Cross-References

Genesis 3:1
Now the serpent was more crafty than any beast of the field that the LORD God had made. And he said to the woman, "Did God really say, 'You must not eat of any tree in the garden?'"
Genesis 3:6
When the woman saw that the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eyes, and that it was desirable for obtaining wisdom, she took the fruit and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it.
Genesis 3:7
And the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked; so they sewed together fig leaves and made coverings for themselves.
Genesis 3:8
Then the man and his wife heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the breeze of the day, and they hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God among the trees of the garden.
Genesis 3:9
So the LORD God called out to the man, "Where are you?"
Genesis 3:10
"I heard Your voice in the garden," he replied, "and I was afraid because I was naked; so I hid myself."
Genesis 3:11
"Who told you that you were naked?" asked the LORD God. "Have you eaten of the tree from which I commanded you not to eat?"
Genesis 3:12
And the man answered, "The woman whom You gave me, she gave me fruit from the tree, and I ate it."
Genesis 3:16
To the woman He said: "I will sharply increase your pain in childbirth; in pain you will bring forth children. You will desire your husband, and he will rule over you."
Genesis 3:17
And to Adam He said: "Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten of the tree from which I commanded you not to eat, cursed is the ground because of you; through toil you will eat of it all the days of your life.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Moses numbered them according to the word of the Lord,.... Took the account of all of a month old in the several houses and families of the tribe of Levi; though Moses is only here mentioned, yet it seems from Numbers 3:39; that Aaron was concerned with him in it; yea, in an after numbering of the Levites who were fit for business from thirty to fifty years of age, the chief of the children of Israel were assisting to him and Aaron, Numbers 4:46;

as he commanded; he was obedient to the divine will in all things, and so in this, though it was his own tribe and his own posterity, which in all successive ages were to be no other than ministering servants to the priests, and to have no inheritance in the land of Israel.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Numbers 3:16. Moses numbered them — Though Moses and Aaron conjointly numbered the twelve tribes, yet Moses alone numbered the Levites; "for as the money with which the first-born of Israel, who exceeded the number of Levites, were redeemed, was to be paid to Aaron and his sons, Numbers 3:48, it was decent that he, whose advantage it was that the number of the first-born of Israel should exceed, should not be authorized to take that number himself." - Dodd, from Bishop Kidder.


 
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