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Numbers 3:42

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And Moses numbered, as the Lord commanded him, all the firstborn among the children of Israel.
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Numbers 3:42

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numbered

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Counted, reckoned, enrolled, listed, included in a company or class, or measured as to number or extent.

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children

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Sons or daughters; descendants; or persons likened to children by age, relation, or character.

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Israel

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The name given to Jacob and, by extension, his descendants, their nation, or the people so called.

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3:40¶ And the Lord said unto Moses, Number all the firstborn of the males of the children of Israel from a month old and upward, and take the number of their names.

3:41And thou shalt take the Levites for me (I am the Lord) instead of all the firstborn among the children of Israel; and the cattle of the Levites instead of all the firstlings among the cattle of the children of Israel.

3:42And Moses numbered, as the Lord commanded him, all the firstborn among the children of Israel.

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3:43And all the firstborn males by the number of names, from a month old and upward, of those that were numbered of them, were twenty and two thousand two hundred and threescore and thirteen.

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