Numbers 1:44

44 These [are] the ones counted whom Moses and Aaron mustered,^[a] with the twelve leaders of Israel, each one from {his family}.^[b]

Numbers 1:44 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 1:44

These [are] those that were numbered
Or, as the Targum of Jonathan, these are the sums of the numbers; namely, those before given of the several respective tribes:

which Moses and Aaron numbered, and the princes of Israel, [being]
twelve men;
for though the tribe of Levi was not numbered, yet Joseph having a double portion, his two sons are reckoned as distinct tribes; so that one out of each tribe made up the number twelve:

each one for the house of his fathers;
for the tribe he belonged to, with which it might reasonably be supposed he was best acquainted, and could more readily take the number of them.

Numbers 1:44 In-Context

42 From the descendants of Naphtali, their genealogies according to their clans, according to {their families}, according to [the] number of names, from {those twenty years old} and above, everyone who [is able] to go to war:

43 those who were counted from the tribe of Naphtali were fifty-three thousand four hundred.

44 These [are] the ones counted whom Moses and Aaron mustered, with the twelve leaders of Israel, each one from {his family}.

45 So all those who were counted from the {Israelites} according to {their families}, from {those twenty years old} and above, everyone in Israel who [is able] to go to war.

46 All of the ones counted were six hundred and three thousand, five hundred and fifty.

Footnotes

• [a]. Or "counted," or "summoned," or "enrolled"
• [b]. Literally "the house of his fathers"