Numbers 1:21

Of the tribe of Reuben were numbered forty and six thousand and five hundred.

Targum Onkelos

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

20And the sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel, by their generations and their families, according to the house of their fathers, with the number of their names, by their polls; every male from twenty years old and upward, all going forth in the host:

22Of the sons of Shemeon, by their generations and their families and the house of their fathers, were numbered, by the number of their names, according to their polls, every male from twenty years old and upwards, everyone going forth in the host;

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Cross References

Numbers 26:7These are the families of Reuben, and they who were numbered of them were 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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