Numbers 1:22

22 From the descendants of Simeon, their genealogies according to their clans, according to {their families},^[a] those who were counted according to [the] number of their names, every individual male from {twenty years old}^[b] and above, everyone who [is able] to go to war:

Numbers 1:22 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 1:22

Of the children of Simeon, by their generations
(See Gill on Numbers 1:20).

Numbers 1:22 In-Context

20 The descendants of Reuben, the firstborn of Israel, their genealogies according to their clans, according to {their families}, according to [the] number of names, every male individually from {twenty years old} and above, everyone who [is able] to go to war:

21 those who were counted from the tribe of Reuben were forty-six thousand five hundred.

22 From the descendants of Simeon, their genealogies according to their clans, according to {their families}, those who were counted according to [the] number of their names, every individual male from {twenty years old} and above, everyone who [is able] to go to war:

23 those who were counted from the tribe of Simeon were fifty-nine thousand three hundred.

24 From the descendants of Gad, their genealogies according to their clans, according to {their families}, according to [the] number of names, from {those twenty years old} and above, everyone who [is able] to go to war:

Footnotes

• [a]. Literally "the house of their fathers"
• [b]. Literally "a son of twenty years"