Numbers 1:21

Were forty-six thousand five hundred.

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Reuben, were forty and six thousand and five hundred.

In Context

20Of 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,

22Of 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,

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Cross References

Numbers 26:7These are the families of the stock of Ruben: whose number was found to be forty-three thousand seven hundred and thirty.

Matthew Henry on Numbers 1:18-44

17 And Moses and Aaron took these men which are expressed by their names: 18 And they assembled all the congregation together on the first day of the second month, and they declared their pedigrees after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, by their polls. 19 As the Lord commanded Moses, so he numbered them in the wilderness of Sinai. 20 And the children of Reuben, Israel's eldest son, by their generations, after their families, by… Read the whole commentary →

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