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Numbers 1:42-44
New English Translation
Numbers 1:42-44
New English Translation
42 From[a] the descendants of Naphtali: According to the records of their clans and families, all the males twenty years old or older who could serve in the army were listed by name. 43 Those of them who were numbered from the tribe of Naphtali were 53,400.
44 These were the men whom Moses and Aaron numbered[b] along with the twelve leaders of Israel, each of whom[c] was from his own family.
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- Numbers 1:42 tc The verse does not have the preposition, only “the descendants of Naphtali.”
- Numbers 1:44 tn The construction uses both the passive participle הַפְּקֻדִים (happequdim) and the verb פָּקַד (paqad), giving a literal translation of “these were the numbered ones, whom Moses and Aaron numbered.”
- Numbers 1:44 tn Heb “they were one man for the house of his fathers.”
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