King James Version
Numbers 1:19 in the King James Version says “As the LORD commanded Moses, so he numbered them in the wilderness of Sinai.” — study this verse from Numbers chapter 1 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“As the LORD commanded Moses, so he numbered them in the wilderness of Sinai.”
Numbers 1:19 · KJV
And Moses and Aaron took these men which are expressed by their names:
And they assembled all the congregation together on the first day of the second month, and they declared their pedigrees after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, by their polls.
As the LORD commanded Moses, so he numbered them in the wilderness of Sinai.
And the children of Reuben, Israel's eldest son, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, by their polls, every male from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;
Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Reuben, were forty and six thousand and five hundred.
KJV Study — Public Domain
who, which, what, that; also (as an adverb and a conjunction) when, where, how, because, in order that, etc
“As the LORD”
H3068(the) self-existent or eternal; jeho-vah, jewish national name of god
properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
“so he numbered”
H6485to visit (with friendly or hostile intent); by analogy, to oversee, muster, charge, care for, miss, deposit, etc
“them in the wilderness”
H4057a pasture (i.e., open field, whither cattle are driven); by implication, a desert
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