| |
Numbers Chapter 1 (Original 1611 KJV Bible) |
>>
|
|
This is the text and a scan of the actual, original, first printing of the 1611 King James Version, the 'HE' Bible, for Numbers Chapter 1. The KJV does not get more original or authentic than this.
View Numbers Chapter 1 as text-only.
Click to switch to the standard King James Version of Numbers Chapter 1
Why does it have strange spelling?
CHAP. I.
1 God commaundeth Moses to number the people. 5 The Princes of the Tribes. 17 The number of euery Tribe. 47 The Leuites are exempted for the Seruice of the Lord.
1
And the Lord spake vnto Moses in the wildernesse of Sinai, in the Tabernacle of the Congregation, on the first day of the second moneth, in the second yeere, after they were come out of the land of Egypt, saying,
2
Take yee the summe of all the Congregation of the children of Israel, after their families, by the house of their fathers, with the number of their names, euery male by their polle:2
3
From twentie yeeres old and vpward, all that are able to goe foorth to warre in Israel: thou and Aaron shall number them by their armies.
4
And with you there shalbe a man of euery Tribe: euery one head of the house of his fathers.
5
¶ And these are the names of the men that shall stand with you: of the tribe of Reuben, Elizur the sonne of Shedeur.
6
Of Simeon: Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai.
7
Of Iudah: Nahshon, the sonne of Amminadab.
8
Of Issachar: Nethaneel, the sonne of Zuar.
Men of warre are numbred.
9
Of Zebulun: Eliab the sonne of Helon.
10
Of the children of Ioseph: of Ephraim, Elishama the sonne of Ammihud: of Manasseh, Gamaliel the sonne of Pedahzur.
11
Of Beniamin: Abidan, the sonne of Gideoni.
12
Of Dan: Ahiezer, the sonne of Ammishaddai.
13
Of Asher: Pagiel the sonne of Ocran.
14
Of Gad: Eliasaph, the sonne of Deuel.
15
Of Naphthali: Ahira the sonne of Enan.
16
These were the renowned of the Congregation, Princes of the tribes of their fathers, heads of thousands in Israel.
17
¶ And Moses and Aaron tooke these men, which are expressed by their names.
18
And they assembled all the Congregation together on the first day of the second moneth, and they declared their pedegrees after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty yeres old and vpward by their polle.
19
As the Lord commaunded Moses, so he numbred them in the wildernesse of Sinai.
20
And the children of Reuben Israels eldest sonne, by their generations after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, by their polle, euery male from twenty yeeres old and vpward, all that were able to go forth to warre:
21
Those that were numbred of them, euen of the tribe of Reuben, were fourty and sixe thousand and fiue hundred.
22
¶ Of the children of Simeon by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, those that were numbred of them, according to the number of the names, by their polles, euery male from twenty yeeres old and vpward, all that were able to goe foorth to warre:
23
Those that were numbred of them, euen of the tribe of Simeon, were fiftie and nine thousand, and three hundred.
Men of warre are numbred.
24
¶ Of the children of Gad by their generations, after their families by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty yeeres old and vpward, all that were able to goe foorth to warre:
25
Those that were numbred of them, euen of the tribe of Gad, were fourty and fiue thousand, sixe hundred and fiftie.
26
¶ Of the children of Iudah by their generations, after their families by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty yeeres old and vpward, all that were able to goe foorth to warre:
27
Those that were numbred of them, euen of the tribe of Iudah, were threescore and fourteene thousand, and sixe hundred.
28
¶ Of the children of Issachar, by their generations, after their families by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty yeres old and vpward, all that were able to goe foorth to warre:
29
Those that were numbred of them, euen of the tribe of Issachar, were fiftie and foure thousand, and foure hundred.
30
¶ Of the children of Zebulun, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty yeres old and vpward, all that were able to goe foorth to warre:
31
Those that were numbred of them, euen of the tribe of Zebulun, were fiftie and seuen thousand and foure hundred.
32
¶ Of the children of Ioseph; namely of the children of Ephraim, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty yeres old and vpward, all that were able to goe foorth to warre:
33
Those that were numbred of them, euen of the tribe of Ephraim, were fourty thousand and fiue hundred.
34
¶ Of the children of Manasseh by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers according to the number of the names, from twenty yeeres old and vpward, all that were able to go forth to warre:
35
Those that were numbred of them, euen of the tribe of Manasseh, were thirty and two thousand, and two hundred.
The Leuites office and charge.
36
¶ Of the children of Beniamin, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names from twenty yeeres old and vpward, all that were able to goe foorth to warre:
37
Those that were numbred of them, euen of the tribe of Beniamin, were thirtie and fiue thousand, and foure hundred.
38
¶ Of the children of Dan, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twentie yeeres old and vpward, all that were able to goe forth to warre:
39
Those that were numbred of them, euen of the tribe of Dan, were threescore and two thousand, and seuen hundred.
40
¶ Of the children of Asher, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twentie yeres old and vpward, all that were able to goe forth to warre:
41
Those that were numbred of them, euen of the tribe of Asher, were fourtie and one thousand, and fiue hundred.
42
¶ Of the children of Naphtali, throughout their generations, after their families by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twentie yeeres olde and vpward, all that were able to goe forth to warre:
43
Those that were numbred of them, euen of the tribe of Naphtali, were fiftie and three thousand, and foure hundred.
44
These are those that were numbred, which Moses and Aaron numbred, and the Princes of Israel, being twelue men: each one was for the house of his fathers.
45
So were all those that were numbred of the children of Israel, by the house of their fathers, from twenty yeeres old and vpward, all that were able to goe forth to warre in Israel:
46
Euen all they, that were numbred, were sixe hundred thousand, and three thousand, and fiue hundred and fiftie.
47
¶ But the Leuites after the tribe of their fathers, were not numbred among them.
48
For the Lord had spoken vnto Moses, saying,
The Leuites office and charge.
49
Onely thou shalt not number the tribe of Leui, neither take the summe of them among the children of Israel.
50
But thou shalt appoint the Leuites ouer the Tabernacle of Testimonie, and ouer all the vessels thereof, and ouer all things that belong to it: they shall beare the Tabernacle, and all the vessels thereof, and they shall minister vnto it, and shall encampe round about the Tabernacle.
51
And when the Tabernacle setteth forward, the Leuites shall take it downe: and when the Tabernacle is to be pitched, the Leuites shall set it vp: and the stranger that commeth nigh, shall be put to death.
52
And the children of Israel shall pitch their tents euery man by his own campe, and euery man by his owne standerd, throughout their hostes.
53
But the Leuites shall pitch round about the Tabernacle of Testimonie, that there be no wrath vpon the Congregation of the children of Israel: and the Leuites shall keepe the charge of the Tabernacle of Testimonie.
54
And the children of Israel did according to all that the Lord commanded Moses, so did they.
View Wesley's Notes for Numbers Chapter 1
1:1 In the wilderness - Where now they had been a full year or near it, as may be gathered by comparing this place with #Exo 19:1 40:17|.
1:2 Take the sum - This is not the same muster with that #Exo 38:26|, as plainly appears, because that was before the building of the tabernacle, which was built and set up on the first day of the first month, #Exo 40:2|, but this was after it, on the first day of the second month. And they were for different ends; that was to tax them for the charges of the tabernacle; but this was for other ends, partly that the great number of the people might be known to the praise of God's faithfulness, in making good his promises of multiplying them, and to their own encouragement: partly for the better ordering their camp and march, for they were now beginning their journey; and partly that this account might he compared with the other in the close of the book, where we read that not one of all this vast number, except Caleb and Joshua were left alive; a fair warning to all future generations to take heed of rebelling against the Lord. It is true, the sums and numbers agree in this and that computation, which is not strange, because there was not much time between the two numberings, and no eminent sin among the people in that interval, whereby God was provoked to diminish their numbers. Some conceive that in that number, #Exo 30:11 |- 16 and 38:25,26, the Levites were included, which are here excepted, #Num 1:47|, and that in that interval of time, there were grown up as many more men of those years as there were Levites of the same age. Israel - So the strangers mixed with them, were not numbered. Their fathers - The people were divided into twelve tribes, the tribes into great families, #Num 26:5|, these great families into lesser families called the houses of their fathers, because they were distinguished one from another by their fathers.
1:5 Reuben - The tribes are here numbered according to the order or quality of their birth, first the children of Leah, then of Rachel, and then of the handmaids.
1:12 Deuel - Called Reuel, #Num 3:14|, the Hebrew letters Daleth and Resh being often changed.
1:19 He numbered them - For ought that appears in one day.
1:20 By their generations - That is, the persons begotten of Reuben's immediate children, who are here subdivided into families, and they into houses, and they into particular persons.
1:27 Threescore and fourteen thousand - Far more than any other tribe, in accomplishing Jacob's prophecy, #Gen 49:8 |- 12.
1:33 Ephraim - Above 8000 more than Manasseh, towards the accomplishment of that promise, #Gen 48:20|, which the devil in vain attempted to defeat by stirring up the men of Gath against them, #1Chr 7:21|,22.
1:37 Thirty five thousand - The smallest number, except one, though Benjamin had more immediate children than any of his brethren, #Gen 46:21|, whereas Dan had but one immediate son, #Gen 46:23|, yet now his number is the biggest but one of all the tribes, and is almost double to that of Benjamin. Such great and strange changes God easily can, and frequently doth make in families, #1Sam 2:5|. And therefore let none boast or please themselves too much in their numerous offspring.
1:49 Levi - Because they were not generally to go out to war, which was the thing principally eyed in this muster, #Nu 1:3|,20,45, but were to attend upon the service of the tabernacle. They that minister upon holy things, should not entangle themselves in secular affairs. The ministry itself is work enough for a whole man, and all little enough to be employed in it.
1:50 The tabernacle of testimony - So called here, and #Exo 38:21|, because it was made chiefly for the sake of the ark of the testimony, which is often called the testimony.
1:51 That cometh nigh - The stranger elsewhere is one of another nation, here one of another tribe. So as to do the offices mentioned, #Nu 1:50|.
1:53 No wrath - From God, who is very tender of his worship, and will not suffer the profaners of it go unpunished! whose wrath is called simply wrath by way of eminency, as the most terrible kind of wrath.
Numbers Chapter 1 Sidenote References (from Original 1611 KJV Bible):
2 Exod. 30. 12.
* Courtesy of Rare Book and Manuscript Library, University of Pennsylvania
View All Numbers Chapter 1 Comments...
What Do You Think of Numbers 1?
Share your own thoughts or commentary here...
