Joab reported the number of the fighting men to the king: in Israel there were eight hundred thousand able-bodied men who could handle a sword, and in Judah five hundred thousand.
Numbers 1:3 - New International Version (Anglicised) You and Aaron are to count according to their divisions all the men in Israel who are twenty years old or more and able to serve in the army. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition From twenty years old and upward, all in Israel who are able to go forth to war you and Aaron shall number, company by company. American Standard Version (1901) 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 hosts. Common English Bible 20 years old and above, who is eligible for military service in Israel. These you and Aaron will enlist in their military units. Catholic Public Domain Version from twenty years and above, of all the able-bodied men out of Israel, and you shall number them by their companies, you and Aaron. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version From twenty years old and upwards, of all the men of Israel fit for war. And you shall number them by their troops, thou and Aaron. |
Joab reported the number of the fighting men to the king: in Israel there were eight hundred thousand able-bodied men who could handle a sword, and in Judah five hundred thousand.
The Reubenites, the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh had 44,760 men ready for military service – able-bodied men who could handle shield and sword, who could use a bow, and who were trained for battle.
Amaziah called the people of Judah together and assigned them according to their families to commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds for all Judah and Benjamin. He then mustered those twenty years old or more and found that there were three hundred thousand men fit for military service, able to handle the spear and shield.
‘Celebrate the Festival of Unleavened Bread, because it was on this very day that I brought your divisions out of Egypt. Celebrate this day as a lasting ordinance for the generations to come.
All who cross over, those twenty years old or more, are to give an offering to the Lord.
one beka per person, that is, half a shekel, according to the sanctuary shekel, from everyone who had crossed over to those counted, twenty years old or more, a total of 603,550 men.
in this wilderness your bodies will fall – every one of you twenty years old or more who was counted in the census and who has grumbled against me.
‘Take a census of the whole Israelite community by families – all those twenty years old or more who are able to serve in the army of Israel.’
‘Count the Levites by their families and clans. Count every male a month old or more.’
“Because they have not followed me wholeheartedly, not one of those who were twenty years old or more when they came up out of Egypt will see the land I promised on oath to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob –
Here are the stages in the journey of the Israelites when they came out of Egypt by divisions under the leadership of Moses and Aaron.
Count all the men from thirty to fifty years of age who come to serve in the work at the tent of meeting.
If a man has recently married, he must not be sent to war or have any other duty laid on him. For one year he is to be free to stay at home and bring happiness to the wife he has married.
I commanded you at that time: ‘The Lord your God has given you this land to take possession of it. But all your able-bodied men, armed for battle, must cross over ahead of the other Israelites.