'Men' in the Bible

These are the names of the men who are to assist you:Elizur son of Shedeur from Reuben;

These are the men called from the community; they are leaders of their ancestral tribes, the heads of Israel’s clans.”

So Moses and Aaron took these men who had been designated by name,

These are the men Moses and Aaron registered, with the assistance of the 12 leaders of Israel; each represented his ancestral house.

men from 30 years old to 50 years old—everyone who is qualified to do work at the tent of meeting.

Register men from 30 years old to 50 years old, everyone who is qualified to perform service, to do work at the tent of meeting.

Register men from 30 years old to 50 years old, everyone who is qualified to do the work of the tent of meeting.

men from 30 years old to 50 years old, everyone who was qualified for work at the tent of meeting.

The men registered by their clans numbered 2,750.

These were the registered men of the Kohathite clans, everyone who could serve at the tent of meeting. Moses and Aaron registered them at the Lord’s command through Moses.

men from 30 years old to 50 years old, everyone who was qualified for work at the tent of meeting.

The men registered by their clans and their ancestral houses numbered 2,630.

These were the registered men of the Gershonite clans. At the Lord’s command Moses and Aaron registered everyone who could serve at the tent of meeting.

The men of the Merarite clans were registered by their clans and their ancestral houses,

The men registered by their clans numbered 3,200.

These were the registered men of the Merarite clans; Moses and Aaron registered them at the Lord’s command through Moses.

Their registered men numbered 8,580.

But there were some men who were unclean because of a human corpse, so they could not observe the Passover on that day. These men came before Moses and Aaron the same day

The Lord answered Moses, “Bring Me 70 men from Israel known to you as elders and officers of the people. Take them to the tent of meeting and have them stand there with you.

Moses went out and told the people the words of the Lord. He brought 70 men from the elders of the people and had them stand around the tent.

Two men had remained in the camp, one named Eldad and the other Medad; the Spirit rested on them—they were among those listed, but had not gone out to the tent—and they prophesied in the camp.

“Send men to scout out the land of Canaan I am giving to the Israelites. Send one man who is a leader among them from each of their ancestral tribes.”

Moses sent them from the Wilderness of Paran at the Lord’s command. All the men were leaders in Israel.

These were the names of the men Moses sent to scout out the land, and Moses renamed Hoshea son of Nun, Joshua.

When they came to the Valley of Eshcol, they cut down a branch with a single cluster of grapes, which was carried on a pole by two men. They also took some pomegranates and figs.

The men went back to Moses, Aaron, and the entire Israelite community in the Wilderness of Paran at Kadesh. They brought back a report for them and the whole community, and they showed them the fruit of the land.

But the men who had gone up with him responded, “We can’t go up against the people because they are stronger than we are!”

So they gave a negative report to the Israelites about the land they had scouted: “The land we passed through to explore is one that devours its inhabitants, and all the people we saw in it are men of great size.

none of the men who have seen My glory and the signs I performed in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have tested Me these 10 times and did not obey Me,

So the men Moses sent to scout out the land, and who returned and incited the entire community to complain about him by spreading a negative report about the land—

those men who spread the negative report about the land were struck down by the Lord.

Only Joshua son of Nun and Caleb son of Jephunneh remained alive of those men who went to scout out the land.

250 prominent Israelite men who were leaders of the community and representatives in the assembly, and they rebelled against Moses.

Furthermore, you didn’t bring us to a land flowing with milk and honey or give us an inheritance of fields and vineyards. Will you gouge out the eyes of these men? We will not come!”

He warned the community, “Get away now from the tents of these wicked men. Don’t touch anything that belongs to them, or you will be swept away because of all their sins.”

If these men die naturally as all people would, and suffer the fate of all, then the Lord has not sent me.

But if the Lord brings about something unprecedented, and the ground opens its mouth and swallows them along with all that belongs to them so that they go down alive into Sheol, then you will know that these men have despised the Lord.”

Fire also came out from the Lord and consumed the 250 men who were presenting the incense.

Then God came to Balaam and asked, “Who are these men with you?”

God came to Balaam at night and said to him, “Since these men have come to summon you, get up and go with them, but you must only do what I tell you.”

Then the Angel of the Lord said to Balaam, “Go with the men, but you are to say only what I tell you.” So Balaam went with Balak’s officials.

So Moses told Israel’s judges, “Kill each of the men who aligned themselves with Baal of Peor.”

These were the Reubenite clans,and their registered men numbered 43,730.

The earth opened its mouth and swallowed them with Korah, when his followers died and the fire consumed 250 men. They serve as a warning sign.

These were the Simeonite clans, numbering 22,200 men.

These were the Gadite clans numbered by their registered men: 40,500.

These were Judah’s clans numbered by their registered men: 76,500.

These were Issachar’s clans numbered by their registered men: 64,300.

These were the Zebulunite clans numbered by their registered men: 60,500.

These were Manasseh’s clans, numbered by their registered men: 52,700.

These were the Ephraimite clans numbered by their registered men: 32,500.These were Joseph’s descendants by their clans.

These were the Benjaminite clans numbered by their registered men: 45,600.

All the Shuhamite clans numbered by their registered men: 64,400.

These were the Asherite clans numbered by their registered men: 53,400.

These were the Naphtali clans numbered by their registered men: 45,400.

These registered Israelite men numbered 601,730.

So Moses spoke to the people, “Equip some of your men for war. They will go against Midian to inflict the Lord’s vengeance on them.

Send 1,000 men to war from each Israelite tribe.”

Set aside a tribute for the Lord from what belongs to the fighting men who went out to war: one out of every 500 humans, cattle, donkeys, sheep, and goats.

From the Israelites’ half, which Moses separated from the men who fought,

and told him, “Your servants have taken a census of the fighting men under our command, and not one of us is missing.

‘Because they did not follow Me completely, none of the men 20 years old or more who came up from Egypt will see the land I swore to give Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob—

and every one of your armed men crosses the Jordan before the Lord until He has driven His enemies from His presence,

“These are the names of the men who are to distribute the land as an inheritance for you: Eleazar the priest and Joshua son of Nun.

These are the names of the men:Caleb son of Jephunneh from the tribe of Judah;

If they marry any of the men from the other Israelite tribes, their inheritance will be taken away from our fathers’ inheritance and added to that of the tribe into which they marry. Therefore, part of our allotted inheritance would be taken away.

They married men from the clans of the descendants of Manasseh son of Joseph, and their inheritance remained within the tribe of their father’s clan.