KJV King James Version
These [were] the numbered of the children of Israel, six hundred thousand and a thousand seven hundred and thirty.
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Numbers 26:51
These [were] the numbered of the children of Israel, six hundred thousand and a thousand seven hundred and thirty.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
These men of Israel numbered 601,730 in all.
WEB World English Bible
These are those who were numbered of the children of Israel, six hundred one thousand seven hundred thirty.
ASV American Standard Version
These are they that were numbered of the children of Israel, six hundred thousand and a thousand seven hundred and thirty.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
These are numbered ones of the sons of Israel, six hundred thousand, and a thousand, seven hundred and thirty.
Surrounding context — Numbers 26
48 [Of] the sons of Naphtali after their families: of Jahzeel, the family of the Jahzeelites: of Guni, the family of the Gunites:
49 Of Jezer, the family of the Jezerites: of Shillem, the family of the Shillemites.
50 These [are] the families of Naphtali according to their families: and they that were numbered of them [were] forty and five thousand and four hundred.
51 These [were] the numbered of the children of Israel, six hundred thousand and a thousand seven hundred and thirty.
52 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
53 Unto these the land shall be divided for an inheritance according to the number of names.
54 To many thou shalt give the more inheritance, and to few thou shalt give the less inheritance: to every one shall his inheritance be given according to those that were numbered of him.
Original-language word links
These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
אֵ֗לֶּהH428 · el.lehtheseפְּקוּדֵי֙H6485 · pa.qadto reckon: listבְּנֵ֣יH1121 · benson: childיִשְׂרָאֵ֔לH3478 · yis.ra.elIsraelשֵׁשׁ־H8337 · sheshsixמֵא֥וֹתH3967 · me.ahhundredאֶ֖לֶףH505 · e.lephthousandוָאָ֑לֶףH505 · e.lephthousandשְׁבַ֥עH7651 · she.vasevenמֵא֖וֹתH3967 · me.ahhundredוּשְׁלֹשִֽׁים׃ פH7970 · she.lo.shimthirty
Cross-references
Numbers 1:46Even all they that were numbered were six hundred thousand and three thousand and five hundred and fifty.Job 12:14Behold, he breaketh down, and it cannot be built again: he shutteth up a man, and there can be no opening.Job 12:9-10Who knoweth not in all these that the hand of the LORD hath wrought this?Job 12:20-23He removeth away the speech of the trusty, and taketh away the understanding of the aged.Psalm 77:20Thou leddest thy people like a flock by the hand of Moses and Aaron.Nehemiah 9:23Their children also multipliedst thou as the stars of heaven, and broughtest them into the land, concerning which thou hadst promised to their fathers, that they should go in to possess [it].Numbers 2:32These [are] those which were numbered of the children of Israel by the house of their fathers: all those that were numbered of the camps throughout their hosts [were] six hundred thousand and three thousand and five hundred and fifty.Exodus 38:26A bekah for every man, [that is], half a shekel, after the shekel of the sanctuary, for every one that went to be numbered, from twenty years old and upward, for six hundred thousand and three thousand and five hundred and fifty [men].Numbers 11:21And Moses said, The people, among whom I [am], [are] six hundred thousand footmen; and thou hast said, I will give them flesh, that they may eat a whole month.Exodus 12:37And the children of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand on foot [that were] men, beside children.
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