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).
19
As Hashem commanded Moshe, so he counted them in the midbar of Sinai.
20
And the bnei Reuven, Yisroel’s bechor, by their toldot, after their mishpekhot, by the bais of their avot, according to the number of the shmot, one by one, every zakhar from twenty years old and upward, all that are ablebodied to serve in tzava;
21
Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Reuven, were forty and six thousand and five hundred.
22
Of the bnei Shim’on, by their toldot, after their mishpekhot, by the bais of their avot, those that were numbered of them, according to the number of the shmot, one by one, every male from twenty years old and upward, all that were able-bodied to serve in tzava (army);
23
Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Shim’on, were fifty and nine thousand and three hundred.
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