Numbers 1:2
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1:2“Take a census11 of the entire12 Israelite community13 by their clans and families,14 counting the name of every individual male.15
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- 11 The construction is literally “lift up the head[s],” (שְׂאוּ אֶת־רֹאשׁ, sé’u ’et-ro’sh). This idiom for taking a census occurs elsewhere (Exod 30:12; Lev 5:24; Num 1:24; etc.). The idea is simply that of counting heads to arrive at the base for the standing army. This is a different event than the one recorded in Exod 30:11–16, which was taken for a different purpose altogether. The verb is plural, indicating that Moses had help in taking the census.
- 12 lacks the Hebrew word “all” here.
- 13 Heb “the congregation of Israel.”
- 14 The tribe (מַטֶּה, matteh or שֵׁבֶט, shevet) is the main category. The family groups or clans (מִשְׁפְּחֹת, mishpékhot) and the households or families (בֵּית אֲבֹת, bet ’avot) were sub-divisions of the tribe.
- 15 This clause simply has “in/with the number of the names of every male with respect to their skulls [individually].” Counting heads, or every skull, simply meant that each person was to be numbered in the census. Except for the Levites, no male was exempt from the count.
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ESVEnglish Standard Version
“Take a census of all the congregation of the people of Israel, by clans, by fathers’ houses, according to the number of names, every male, head by head.
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NIVNew International Version (2011)
“Take a census of the whole Israelite community by their clans and families, listing every man by name, one by one.
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CSBChristian Standard Bible
“Take a census of the entire Israelite community by their clans and their ancestral families, counting the names of every male one by one.
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NLTNew Living Translation
“From the whole community of Israel, record the names of all the warriors by their clans and families. List all the men
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LEBThe Lexham English Bible
“Take a census of the entire community of the Israelites according to their clans and their families, according to the number of names, every male individually
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KJV 1900King James Version
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;
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