Numbers 1:2
Take the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel by their families, and houses, and the names of every one, as many as are of the male sex,
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Tollite summam universæ congregationis filiorum Israël per cognationes et domos suas, et nomina singulorum, quidquid sexus est masculini
- Septuagint (Swete)
- Λάβετε ἀρχὴν πάσης συναγωγῆς Ἰσραὴλ κατὰ συγγενίας, κατ᾽ οἴκους πατριῶν, κατὰ ἀριθμὸν ἐξ ὀνόματος, κατὰ κεφαλὴν αὐτῶν·
- Hebrew (WLC)
- שְׂא֗וּ אֶת רֹאשׁ֙ כָּל עֲדַ֣ת בְּנֵֽי יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל לְמִשְׁפְּחֹתָ֖ם לְבֵ֣ית אֲבֹתָ֑ם בְּמִסְפַּ֣ר שֵׁמ֔וֹת כָּל זָכָ֖ר לְגֻלְגְּלֹתָֽם
Haydock's commentary
Houses. The families consisted of the immediate descendants of the 12 patriarchs; the houses were the subdivisions of these. The same plan of numbering the people was adopted on other occasions, Josue viii. 16., and 1 Kings x. 20.
Sex, between 20 and 60 years of age. All the subjects of the Eastern kings may be called upon, if they be able to bear arms; and hence we find such immense armies in the Scripture, and in profane history. Moses numbered the people once before, (Exodus xxx. 2,) and found exactly the same number of warriors, the dead being replaced by others, during the space of seven months. Perhaps the odd numbers might not be specified, as all the totals consist of so many exact hundreds, except that of the tribe of Gad, ver. 25. On the former occasion, the people were not perhaps ranged according to their tribes, which was now deemed necessary, as the army was going to begin its march under its respective leaders. (Calmet)
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.