CHAPTER EXPLORER
Numbers 1
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54 verses in KJV · 318 outgoing cross-reference links
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Opening verses of Numbers 1 (KJV)
1:1 And 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,
1:2 Take 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;
1:3 From 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.
Historical / attribution context
Traditional writer attribution: Moses
Approximate study chronology: c. 1490 BC
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H1121benson: child · 47 occurrencesH6485pa.qadto reckon: list · 22 occurrencesH1avfather · 19 occurrencesH1004betplace · 17 occurrencesH8141sha.nehyear · 16 occurrencesH8034shemname · 16 occurrencesH6635tsa.vaarmy · 16 occurrencesH4294mat.tehtribe: rod · 16 occurrencesH6242es.rimtwenty · 15 occurrencesH505e.lephthousand · 15 occurrencesH4605ma.alabove · 15 occurrencesH4940mish.pa.chahfamily · 14 occurrencesH4557mis.parnumber · 14 occurrencesH3967me.ahhundred · 14 occurrences
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