'Men' in the Bible

Now these are the names of the men who are to help you: from Reuben, Elizur son of Shedeur;

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

and they assembled the entire community together on the first day of the second month. Then the people recorded their ancestry by their clans and families, and the men who were twenty years old or older were listed by name individually,

These were the men whom Moses and Aaron numbered along with the twelve leaders of Israel, each of whom was from his own family.

You must expel both men and women; you must put them outside the camp, so that they will not defile their camps, among which I live."

It happened that some men who were ceremonially defiled by the dead body of a man could not keep the Passover on that day, so they came before Moses and before Aaron on that day.

And those men said to him, "We are ceremonially defiled by the dead body of a man; why are we kept back from offering the Lord's offering at its appointed time among the Israelites?"

The Lord said to Moses, "Gather to me seventy men of the elders of Israel, whom you know are elders of the people and officials over them, and bring them to the tent of meeting; let them take their position there with you.

So Moses went out and told the people the words of the Lord. He then gathered seventy men of the elders of the people and had them stand around the tabernacle.

But two men remained in the camp; one's name was Eldad, and the other's name was Medad. And the spirit rested on them. (Now they were among those in the registration, but had not gone to the tabernacle.) So they prophesied in the camp.

Joshua son of Nun, the servant of Moses, one of his choice young men, said, "My lord Moses, stop them!"

"Send out men to investigate the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the Israelites. You are to send one man from each ancestral tribe, each one a leader among them."

These are the names of the men whom Moses sent to investigate the land. And Moses gave Hoshea son of Nun the name Joshua.

When they came to the valley of Eshcol, they cut down from there a branch with one cluster of grapes, and they carried it on a staff between two men, as well as 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 these people, because they are stronger than we are!"

The men whom Moses sent to investigate the land, who returned and made the whole community murmur against him by producing an evil report about the land,

those men who produced the evil report about the land, died by the plague before the Lord.

But Joshua son of Nun and Caleb son of Jephunneh, who were among the men who went to investigate the land, lived.

Now Korah son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, and Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, and On son of Peleth, who were Reubenites, took men

and rebelled against Moses, along with some of the Israelites, 250 leaders of the community, chosen from the assembly, famous men.

Moreover, you have not brought us into a land that flows with milk and honey, nor given us an inheritance of fields and vineyards. Do you think you can blind these men? We will not come up."

And he said to the community, "Move away from the tents of these wicked men, and do not touch anything they have, lest you be destroyed because of all their sins."

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

But if the Lord does something entirely new, and the earth opens its mouth and swallows them up along with all that they have, and they go down alive to the grave, then you will know that these men have despised the Lord!"

and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them, along with their households, and all Korah's men, and all their goods.

Then a fire went out from the Lord and devoured the 250 men who offered incense.

As for the censers of these men who sinned at the cost of their lives, they must be made into hammered sheets for covering the altar, because they presented them before the Lord and sanctified them. They will become a sign to the Israelites."

And God came to Balaam and said, "Who are these men with you?"

God came to Balaam that night, and said to him, "If the men have come to call you, get up and go with them; but the word that I will say to you, that you must do."

But the angel of the Lord said to Balaam, "Go with the men, but you may only speak the word that I will speak to you." So Balaam went with the princes of Balak.

So Moses said to the judges of Israel, "Each of you must execute those of his men who were joined to Baal-peor."

The earth opened its mouth and swallowed them and Korah at the time that company died, when the fire consumed 250 men. So they became a warning.

So Moses spoke to the people: "Arm men from among you for the war, to attack the Midianites and to execute the Lord's vengeance on Midian.

You must send to the battle a thousand men from every tribe throughout all the tribes of Israel."

Then Eleazar the priest said to the men of war who had gone into the battle, "This is the ordinance of the law that the Lord commanded Moses:

"You must exact a tribute for the Lord from the fighting men who went out to battle: one life out of five hundred, from the people, the cattle, and from the donkeys and the sheep.

The spoil that remained of the plunder which the fighting men had gathered was 675,000 sheep,

From the Israelites' half-share that Moses had separated from the fighting men,

and said to him, "Your servants have taken a count of the men who were in the battle, who were under our authority, and not one is missing.

Because they have not followed me wholeheartedly, not one of the men twenty years old and upward who came from Egypt will see the land that I swore to give to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob,

and if all your armed men cross the Jordan before the Lord until he drives out his enemies from his presence

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

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

Now if they should be married to one of the men from another Israelite tribe, their inheritance would be taken from the inheritance of our fathers and added to the inheritance of the tribe into which they marry. As a result, it will be taken from the lot of our inheritance.