'Men' in the Bible

These then are the names of the men who shall stand with you: of Reuben, Elizur the son of Shedeur;

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

their numbered men of the tribe of Reuben were 46,500.

Of the sons of Simeon, their genealogical registration by their families, by their fathers’ households, their numbered men, according to the number of names, head by head, every male from twenty years old and upward, whoever was able to go out to war,

their numbered men of the tribe of Simeon were 59,300.

their numbered men of the tribe of Gad were 45,650.

their numbered men of the tribe of Judah were 74,600.

their numbered men of the tribe of Issachar were 54,400.

their numbered men of the tribe of Zebulun were 57,400.

their numbered men of the tribe of Ephraim were 40,500.

their numbered men of the tribe of Manasseh were 32,200.

their numbered men of the tribe of Benjamin were 35,400.

their numbered men of the tribe of Dan were 62,700.

their numbered men of the tribe of Asher were 41,500.

their numbered men of the tribe of Naphtali were 53,400.

These are the ones who were numbered, whom Moses and Aaron numbered, with the leaders of Israel, twelve men, each of whom was of his father’s household.

So all the numbered men of the sons of Israel by their fathers’ households, from twenty years old and upward, whoever was able to go out to war in Israel,

even all the numbered men were 603,550.

and his army, even their numbered men, 74,600.

and his army, even their numbered men, 54,400.

and his army, even his numbered men, 57,400.

The total of the numbered men of the camp of Judah: 186,400, by their armies. They shall set out first.

and his army, even their numbered men, 46,500.

and his army, even their numbered men, 59,300.

and his army, even their numbered men, 45,650.

The total of the numbered men of the camp of Reuben: 151,450 by their armies. And they shall set out second.

and his army, even their numbered men, 40,500.

and his army, even their numbered men, 32,200.

and his army, even their numbered men, 35,400.

The total of the numbered men of the camp of Ephraim: 108,100, by their armies. And they shall set out third.

and his army, even their numbered men, 62,700.

and his army, even their numbered men, 41,500.

and his army, even their numbered men, 53,400.

The total of the numbered men of the camp of Dan was 157,600. They shall set out last by their standards.”

These are the numbered men of the sons of Israel by their fathers’ households; the total of the numbered men of the camps by their armies, 603,550.

Their numbered men, in the numbering of every male from a month old and upward, even their numbered men were 7,500.

Their numbered men in the numbering of every male from a month old and upward, were 6,200.

All the numbered men of the Levites, whom Moses and Aaron numbered at the command of the Lord by their families, every male from a month old and upward, were 22,000.

and all the firstborn males by the number of names from a month old and upward, for their numbered men were 22,273.

Their numbered men by their families were 2,750.

These are the numbered men of the Kohathite families, everyone who was serving in the tent of meeting, whom Moses and Aaron numbered according to the commandment of the Lord through Moses.

The numbered men of the sons of Gershon by their families and by their fathers’ households,

Their numbered men by their families, by their fathers’ households, were 2,630.

These are the numbered men of the families of the sons of Gershon, everyone who was serving in the tent of meeting, whom Moses and Aaron numbered according to the commandment of the Lord.

The numbered men of the families of the sons of Merari by their families, by their fathers’ households,

Their numbered men by their families were 3,200.

These are the numbered men of the families of the sons of Merari, whom Moses and Aaron numbered according to the commandment of the Lord through Moses.

All the numbered men of the Levites, whom Moses and Aaron and the leaders of Israel numbered, by their families and by their fathers’ households,

Their numbered men were 8,580.

According to the commandment of the Lord through Moses, they were numbered, everyone by his serving or carrying; thus these were his numbered men, just as the Lord had commanded Moses.

Then the leaders of Israel, the heads of their fathers’ households, made an offering (they were the leaders of the tribes; they were the ones who were over the numbered men).

For every firstborn among the sons of Israel is Mine, among the men and among the animals; on the day that I struck down all the firstborn in the land of Egypt I sanctified them for Myself.

But there were some men who were unclean because of the dead person, so that they could not observe Passover on that day; so they came before Moses and Aaron on that day.

Those men said to him, “Though we are unclean because of the dead person, why are we restrained from presenting the offering of the Lord at its appointed time among the sons of Israel?”

The Lord therefore said to Moses, “Gather for Me seventy men from the elders of Israel, whom you know to be the elders of the people and their officers and bring them to the tent of meeting, and let them take their stand there with you.

So Moses went out and told the people the words of the Lord. Also, he gathered seventy men of the elders of the people, and stationed them around the tent.

But two men had remained in the camp; the name of one was Eldad and the name of the other Medad. And the Spirit rested upon them (now they were among those who had been registered, but had not gone out to the tent), and they prophesied in the camp.

“Send out for yourself men so that they may spy out the land of Canaan, which I am going to give to the sons of Israel; you shall send a man from each of their fathers’ tribes, every one a leader among them.”

So Moses sent them from the wilderness of Paran at the command of the Lord, all of them men who were heads of the sons of Israel.

These are the names of the men whom Moses sent to spy out the land; but Moses called Hoshea the son of Nun, Joshua.

Then they came to the valley of Eshcol and from there cut down a branch with a single cluster of grapes; and they carried it on a pole between two men, with some of the pomegranates and the figs.

But the men who had gone up with him said, “We are not able to go up against the people, for they are too strong for us.”

So they gave out to the sons of Israel a bad report of the land which they had spied out, saying, “The land through which we have gone, in spying it out, is a land that devours its inhabitants; and all the people whom we saw in it are men of great size.

Surely all the men who have seen My glory and My signs which I performed in Egypt and in the wilderness, yet have put Me to the test these ten times and have not listened to My voice,

your corpses will fall in this wilderness, even all your numbered men, according to your complete number from twenty years old and upward, who have grumbled against Me.

As for the men whom Moses sent to spy out the land and who returned and made all the congregation grumble against him by bringing out a bad report concerning the land,

even those men who brought out the very bad report of the land died by a plague before the Lord.

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

and they rose up before Moses, together with some of the sons of Israel, two hundred and fifty leaders of the congregation, chosen in the assembly, men of renown.

Indeed, you have not brought us into a land flowing with milk and honey, nor have you given us an inheritance of fields and vineyards. Would you put out the eyes of these men? We will not come up!”

and he spoke to the congregation, saying, “Depart now from the tents of these wicked men, and touch nothing that belongs to them, or you will be swept away in all their sin.”

If these men die the death of all men or if they suffer the fate of all men, then the Lord has not sent me.

But if the Lord brings about an entirely new thing and the ground opens its mouth and swallows them up with all that is theirs, and they descend alive into Sheol, then you will understand that these men have spurned the Lord.”

and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up, and their households, and all the men who belonged to Korah with their possessions.

Fire also came forth from the Lord and consumed the two hundred and fifty men who were offering the incense.

As for the censers of these men who have sinned at the cost of their lives, let them be made into hammered sheets for a plating of the altar, since they did present them before the Lord and they are holy; and they shall be for a sign to the sons of Israel.”

So Eleazar the priest took the bronze censers which the men who were burned had offered, and they hammered them out as a plating for the altar,

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

God came to Balaam at night and said to him, “If the men have come to call you, rise up and go with them; but only the word which I speak to you shall you do.”

But the angel of the Lord said to Balaam, “Go with the men, but you shall speak only the word which I tell you.” So Balaam went along with the leaders of Balak.

So Moses said to the judges of Israel, “Each of you slay his men who have joined themselves to Baal of Peor.”

and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up along with Korah, when that company died, when the fire devoured 250 men, so that they became a warning.

Moses spoke to the people, saying, “Arm men from among you for the war, that they may go against Midian to execute the Lord’s vengeance on Midian.

Then Eleazar the priest said to the men of war who had gone to battle, “This is the statute of the law which the Lord has commanded Moses:

Levy a tax for the Lord from the men of war who went out to battle, one in five hundred of the persons and of the cattle and of the donkeys and of the sheep;

Now the booty that remained from the spoil which the men of war had plundered was 675,000 sheep,

As for the sons of Israel’s half, which Moses separated from the men who had gone to war—

and they said to Moses, “Your servants have taken a census of men of war who are in our charge, and no man of us is missing.

The men of war had taken booty, every man for himself.

‘None of the men who came up from Egypt, from twenty years old and upward, shall see the land which I swore to Abraham, to Isaac and to Jacob; for they did not follow Me fully,

Now behold, you have risen up in your fathers’ place, a brood of sinful men, to add still more to the burning anger of the Lord against Israel.

and all of you armed men cross over the Jordan before the Lord until He has driven His enemies out from before Him,

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

These are the names of the men: of the tribe of Judah, Caleb the son of Jephunneh.