Numbers 1:21

21 the number of the tribe of Reuben was forty-six thousand five hundred.

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 as the LORD commanded Moses. So he numbered them in the wilderness of Sinai.
20 The people of Reuben, Israel's first-born, their generations, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of names, head by head, every male from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go forth to war:
21 the number of the tribe of Reuben was forty-six thousand five hundred.
22 Of the people of Simeon, their generations, by their families, by their fathers' houses, those of them that were numbered, according to the number of names, head by head, every male from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go forth to war:
23 the number of the tribe of Simeon was fifty-nine thousand three hundred.
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