Numbers 1:3
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New International Version (©2011)
You and Aaron are to count according to their divisions all the men in Israel who are twenty years old or more and able to serve in the army.

New Living Translation (©2007)
twenty years old or older who are able to go to war. You and Aaron must register the troops,

English Standard Version (©2001)
From twenty years old and upward, all in Israel who are able to go to war, you and Aaron shall list them, company by company.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
from twenty years old and upward, whoever is able to go out to war in Israel, you and Aaron shall number them by their armies.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
From twenty years old and upward, all that are able to go forth to war in Israel: thou and Aaron shall number them by their armies.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
You and Aaron are to register those who are 20 years old or more by their military divisions--everyone who can serve in Israel's army.

International Standard Version (©2012)
from 20 years and upward. You and Aaron are to register everyone in Israel who is able to go to war, company by company.

NET Bible (©2006)
You and Aaron are to number all in Israel who can serve in the army, those who are twenty years old or older, by their divisions.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
who is at least 20 years old. You and Aaron must register everyone in Israel who is eligible for military duty. List them by divisions.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
From twenty years old and upward, all that are able to go forth to war in Israel: you and Aaron shall number them by their armies.

American King James Version
From twenty years old and upward, all that are able to go forth to war in Israel: you and Aaron shall number them by their armies.

American Standard Version
from twenty years old and upward, all that are able to go forth to war in Israel, thou and Aaron shall number them by their hosts.

Douay-Rheims Bible
From twenty years old and upwards, of all the men of Israel fit for war, and you shall number them by their troops, thou and Aaron.

Darby Bible Translation
from twenty years and upward, all that go forth to military service in Israel: ye shall number them according to their hosts, thou and Aaron.

English Revised Version
from twenty years old and upward, all that are able to go forth to war in Israel, thou and Aaron shall number them by their hosts.

Webster's Bible Translation
From twenty years old and upward, all that are able to go forth to war in Israel; thou and Aaron shall number them by their armies.

World English Bible
from twenty years old and upward, all who are able to go out to war in Israel. You and Aaron shall number them by their divisions.

Young's Literal Translation
from a son of twenty years and upward, every one going out to the host in Israel, ye do number them by their hosts, thou and Aaron;

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

1:1-43 The people were numbered to show God's faithfulness in thus increasing the seed of Jacob, that they might be the better trained for the wars and conquest of Canaan, and to ascertain their families in order to the division of the land. It is said of each tribe, that those were numbered who were able to go forth to war; they had wars before them, though now they met with no opposition. Let the believer be prepared to withstand the enemies of his soul, though all may appear to be peace.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 3. - By their armies. Every citizen was a soldier. The military monarchies of mediaeval or of modern days, with their universal obligation to service in the ranks, have (so far) but followed the example of ancient Israel.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

From twenty years old and upwards,.... All that had entered into their twentieth year, or, as it should rather seem, who were full twenty years of age, and all that were above it without any limitation; though some limit it to fifty, and others to sixty years, when men may be reasonably excused going to war; for to know who were fit for it seems to be a principal design of this order, as follows:

all that are able to go forth to war in Israel; who being about to journey, might expect to meet with enemies, with whom they would be obliged to engage in battle; and therefore it was proper to know their strength, and whom to call out upon occasion: Aben Ezra observes, that the phrase "in Israel" excepts the mixed multitude; those were not of Israel, and so not numbered, and perhaps not to be trusted or depended upon in war; nor were they mustered and marshalled by the standards of the several tribes; in a mystical sense, those numbered may signify the valiant of Israel, the same as the young men in 1 John 2:14; see Sol 3:7,

thou and Aaron shall number them by their armies; each tribe making a considerable army; see Gill on Exodus 7:4; these people were now typical of the church of God in its militant state in the wilderness, for which they are provided, and prepared, and accoutred.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

3. Aaron shall number them by their armies—or companies. In their departure from Egypt they were divided into five grand companies (Ex 13:18), but from the sojourn in the wilderness to the passage of the Jordan, they were formed into four great divisions. The latter is here referred to.

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The Census of Israel's Warriors
1And the LORD spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the tabernacle of the congregation, on the first day of the second month, in the second year after they were come out of the land of Egypt, saying, 2Take you the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel, after their families, by the house of their fathers, with the number of their names, every male by their polls; 3From twenty years old and upward, all that are able to go forth to war in Israel: you and Aaron shall number them by their armies.

Exodus 30:14 All who cross over, those twenty years old or more, are to give an offering to the LORD.
Exodus 38:26 one beka per person, that is, half a shekel, according to the sanctuary shekel, from everyone who had crossed over to those counted, twenty years old or more, a total of 603,550 men.
1 Chronicles 5:18 The Reubenites, the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh had 44,760 men ready for military service--able-bodied men who could handle shield and sword, who could use a bow, and who were trained for battle.
2 Chronicles 25:5 Amaziah called the people of Judah together and assigned them according to their families to commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds for all Judah and Benjamin. He then mustered those twenty years old or more and found that there were three hundred thousand men fit for military service, able to handle the spear and shield.