Numbers 3:42
And Moses numbered, as the Lord commanded him, all the firstborn among the children of Israel.
Numbers 3:42 in other translations
| BSB | So Moses numbered all the firstborn of the Israelites, as the LORD had commanded him. |
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| WEB | Moses counted, as the LORD commanded him, all the firstborn among the children of Israel. |
| ASV | And Moses numbered, as Jehovah commanded him, all the first-born among the children of Israel. |
| YLT | And Moses numbereth, as Jehovah hath commanded him, all the first-born among the sons of Israel. |
| DARBY | And Moses numbered, as Jehovah had commanded him, all the firstborn among the children of Israel. |
| BBE | So Moses had all the first sons among the children of Israel numbered, as the Lord said to him. |
| Webster | And Moses numbered, as the LORD commanded him, all the first-born among the children of Israel. |
What does Numbers 3:42 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Numbers 3:40-51
40-51. Number all the first-born of the males of the children of Israel, &c.--The principle on which the enumeration of the Levites had been made was now to be applied to the other tribes. The number of their male children, from a month old and upward, was to be reckoned, in order that a comparison might be instituted with that of the Levites, for the formal adoption of the latter as substitutes for the first-born…
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Numbers 3:40-51
The number of the first-born, and that of the Levites, came near to each other. Known unto God are all his works beforehand; there is an exact proportion between them, and so it will appear, when they are compared together. The small number of first-born, over and above the number of the Levites, were to be redeemed, and the redemption-money given to Aaron. The church is called the church of the first-born, which is…
Numbers 3:42 in the original Hebrew
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Context
- Numbers 3:41
And thou shalt take the Levites for me (I am the Lord) instead of all the firstborn among the children of Israel; and the cattle of the Levites instead of all the firstlings among the cattle of the children of Israel.
- Numbers 3:42
And Moses numbered, as the Lord commanded him, all the firstborn among the children of Israel.
- Numbers 3:43
And all the firstborn males by the number of names, from a month old and upward, of those that were numbered of them, were twenty and two thousand two hundred and threescore and thirteen.
Numbers 3:42 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Y contó Moisés, como Jehová le mandó, todos los primogénitos de los hijos de Israel. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Et Moïse fit le dénombrement de tous les premiers-nés parmi les fils d’Israël, comme l’ Éternel lui avait commandé; |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Und Mose musterte, so wie Jehova ihm geboten hatte, alle Erstgeborenen unter den Kindern Israel. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Recensuit Moyses, sicut præceperat Dominus, primogenitos filiorum Israël: |