Numbers 1:21

21 Were 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 had commanded Moses. And they were numbered in the desert of Sinai.
20 Of Ruben the eldest son of Israel, by their generations and families and houses and names of every head, all that were of the male sex, from twenty years old and upward, that were able to go forth to war,
21 Were forty-six thousand five hundred.
22 Of the sons of Simeon by their generations and families, and houses of their kindreds, were reckoned up by the names and heads of every one, all that were of the male sex, from twenty years old and upward, that were able to go forth to war,
23 Fifty-nine thousand three hundred.
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