Numbers 2:4

4 and his division and {the ones counted} [are] seventy-four thousand six hundred.

Numbers 2:4 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 2:4

And his host, and those that were numbered of them
As they had been before; and, supposing these words to be the words of God, there is no necessity of rendering them in the future, as some have observed; though they seem rather to be the words of Moses, who under every tribe repeats the number, which is exactly the same as when taken; and though it was not till twenty days after that they set forward according to their order of encampment, not one of them died, which Aben Ezra observes as a very wonderful thing;

[were] threescore and fourteen thousand and six hundred;
the number of the tribe of Judah were 74,600; see ( Numbers 1:27 ) .

Numbers 2:4 In-Context

2 "The {Israelites} will encamp each with his standard, with a banner according to {their families}; they will encamp around the tent of assembly.

3 The ones who encamp on the eastern side, toward the sunrise, [will be] of the standard of the camp of Judah according to their divisions; and the leader of the descendants of Judah [will be] Nahshon son of Amminadab,

4 and his division and {the ones counted} [are] seventy-four thousand six hundred.

5 And the ones who encamp next to him [will be] the tribe of Issachar. And the leader of the descendants of Issachar [will be] Nethanel son of Zuar,

6 and his division [are] fifty-four thousand four hundred.

Footnotes

• [a]. Literally "the ones counted of them," or "the ones mustered of them"