Numbers 1:1
Verse 1 of 54. The 1st of 36 chapters in Numbers, in The Law.
1And the Lord spake unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the tabernacle of the congregation, on the first day of the second month, in the second year after they were come out of the land of Egypt, saying,
2Take ye the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel, after their families, by the house of their fathers, with the number of their names, every male by their polls;
3From twenty years old and upward, all that are able to go forth to war in Israel: thou and Aaron shall number them by their armies.
4And with you there shall be a man of every tribe; every one head of the house of his fathers.
5And these are the names of the men that shall stand with you: of the tribe of Reuben; Elizur the son of Shedeur.
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Numbers 1:1 in the World English Bible
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,Read Numbers 1:1 in the WEB
Matthew Henry on Numbers 1:1
The date of this commission, v. 1. (1.) The place: it is given at God's court in the wilderness of Sinai, from his royal palace, the tabernacle of the congregation. (2.) The time: In the second year after they came up out of Egypt; we may call it the second year of that reign. The laws in Leviticus were given in the first month of that year; these orders were given in the beginning of the second month.
Read Matthew Henry on Numbers 1:1–16: The Numbering of the Israelites. (b. c. 1490.)
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King James Version. Public domain. Set as prose throughout, including the poetry, because the text is published to us without its lines.