Bilangan 1:44-45

1:44 These were the men whom Moses and Aaron numbered ¹  along with the twelve leaders of Israel, each of whom ²  was from his own family. 1:45 All the Israelites who were twenty years old or older, who could serve in Israel’s army, were numbered ³  according to their families.

Bilangan 2:32

Summary

2:32 These are the Israelites, numbered according to their families. ⁴  All those numbered in the camps, by their divisions, are 603,550.

Bilangan 7:2

7:2 Then the leaders of Israel, the heads of their clans, ⁵  made an offering. They were the leaders of the tribes; they were the ones who had been supervising ⁶  the numbering.

Bilangan 17:8

17:8 On the next day Moses went into the tent of the testimony – and ⁷  the staff of Aaron for the house of Levi had sprouted, and brought forth buds, and produced blossoms, and yielded almonds! ⁸ 

Bilangan 31:26

31:26 “You and Eleazar the priest, and all the family leaders of the community, take the sum ⁹  of the plunder that was captured, both people and animals.

Bilangan 32:28

32:28 So Moses gave orders about them to Eleazar the priest, to Joshua son of Nun, and to the heads of the families of the Israelite tribes.

[1:44]  ¹ tn The construction uses both the passive participle הַפְּקֻדִים (happÿqudim) and the verb פָּקַד (paqad), giving a literal translation of “these were the numbered ones, whom Moses and Aaron numbered.”

[1:44]  ² tn Heb “they were one man for the house of his fathers.”

[1:45]  ³ tn Literally the text has, “and all the numbered of the Israelites were according to their families.” The verb in the sentence is actually without a complement (see v. 46).

[2:32]  ⁴ tn Heb “the house of their fathers.” So also in v. 34.

[7:2]  ⁵ tn Heb “the house of their fathers.”

[7:2]  ⁶ tn The form is the Qal active participle from the verb “to stand” (עָמַד, ’amad). The form describes these leaders as “the ones standing over [the ones numbered].” The expression, along with the clear indication of the first census in chapter 1, shows that this was a supervisory capacity.

[17:8]  ⁷ tn Here too the deictic particle (“and behold”) is added to draw attention to the sight in a vivid way.

[17:8]  ⁸ sn There is no clear answer why the tribe of Levi had used an almond staff. The almond tree is one of the first to bud in the spring, and its white blossoms are a beautiful sign that winter is over. Its name became a name for “watcher”; Jeremiah plays on this name for God’s watching over his people (1:11-12).

[31:26]  ⁹ tn The idiom here is “take up the head,” meaning take a census, or count the totals.