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Polyglot Bible: Numbers: Numbers 1

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This is a parallel-text presentation of Numbers 1 from the Hebrew Bible, displaying the King James Version (with inline Strong's concordance numbers for each Hebrew word) alongside the Greek Septuagint (LXX), enabling direct comparison of the two major textual traditions. The content is God's command to Moses and Aaron to conduct a military census of the Israelite tribes in the Sinai wilderness during the second year after the Exodus, counting all males aged twenty and older capable of bearing arms. The chapter proceeds systematically through each of the twelve tribes, naming a designated leader per tribe and recording each tribe's total — yielding a grand sum of 603,550 fighting men. A distinctive structural feature is the explicit exclusion of the Levites from this military count; instead, they are assigned a cultic role as custodians and transporters of the Tabernacle, serving as a protective buffer around it to shield the congregation from divine wrath. The interleaved Strong's numbers transform what reads as narrative into a word-level analytical resource, making this format primarily a study tool for those engaged in Hebrew-Greek comparative exegesis rather than devotional reading.

Polyglot Bible: Numbers: Numbers 1

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