Num 1:18 | NET2full | STEP | 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 ,

‏ Numbers 1:18

18 and they assembled the entire community together on the first day of the second month. ^{▼▼tc The LXX adds “of the second year.”} Then the people recorded their ancestry ^{▼▼tn The verb is the Hitpael preterite form וַיִּתְיַלְדוּ (vayyityaledu). The cognate noun תּוֹלְדוֹת (toledot) is the word that means “genealogies, family records, records of ancestry.” The root is יָלַד (yalad, “to bear, give birth to”). Here they were recording their family connections, and not, of course, producing children. The verbal stem seems to be both declarative and reflexive.} by their clans and families, and the men who were twenty years old or older were listed ^{▼▼tn The verb is supplied. The Hebrew text simply has “in/with the number of names of those who are twenty years old and higher according to their skulls.”} by name individually,