Numbers 1:21

21 The tribe of Reuben numbered 46,500.

Numbers 1:21 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 1:21

Those that were numbered of them, [even] of the tribe of
Reuben, [were] forty and six thousand and five hundred.
46,500 men. (See Gill on Numbers 1:20).

Numbers 1:21 In-Context

19 just as God commanded Moses. He numbered them in the Wilderness of Sinai.

20 The line of Reuben, Israel's firstborn: The men were counted off head by head, every male twenty years and older who was able to fight in the army, registered by tribes according to their ancestral families.

21 The tribe of Reuben numbered 46,500.

22 The line of Simeon: The men were counted off head by head, every male twenty years and older who was able to fight in the army, registered by clans and families.

23 The tribe of Simeon numbered 59,300.