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Numbers 1:21

in Numbers 1

those registered to the tribe of Reuben numbered 46,500.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

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

KJV

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

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This verse in Numbers 1

Commentary

3 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

And the children of Reuben

on Numbers 1:20-31

The six sons of Leah are numbered first and every tribe gets the same enrolment formula word for word. Judah is the largest at seventy four thousand six hundred, which John Calvin reads beside Jacob's word over Judah at Genesis 49:10, and chapter 2 will set Judah first on the east and first on the march. Gad at forty five thousand six hundred and fifty is the only total in the chapter that does not end in a round hundred, a detail Adam Clarke takes from Henry Ainsworth. Reuben is still called Israel's eldest son here and heads the list, and chapter 2 will place him behind Judah.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

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 Num 1:20.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

proposed

Of the two half-tribes of Joseph, who is seen to be "a fruitful bough" [Ge 49:22], that of Ephraim was the larger, as had been predicted. The relative increase of all, as in the two just mentioned, was owing to the special blessing of God, conformably to the prophetic declaration of the dying patriarch.

The words behind it

8 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • פְּקֻדֵיהֶ֖םenrolled [men] their

    pekudeihemH6485 →303 times

  • לְמַטֵּ֣הof [the] tribe of

    lematehH4294 →252 times

  • רְאוּבֵ֑ןReuben

    reuvenH7205 →72 times

  • שִׁשָּׁ֧ה[were] six

    shishahH8337 →216 times

  • וְאַרְבָּעִ֛יםand forty

    vearbaimH705 →136 times

  • אֶ֖לֶףthousand

    ʾelefH505 →505 times

  • וַחֲמֵ֥שׁand five

    vachameshH2568 →343 times

  • מֵאֽוֹת׃ פhundred<s>

    meotH3967 →581 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

4 in all, six open

The walk

4 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Numbers 26:7

    These were the clans of Reuben, and their registration numbered 43,730.

    it leads to

    • Numbers 26:1

      After the plague had ended, the LORD said to Moses and Eleazar son of Aaron the priest,

    • Genesis 46:9

      The sons of Reuben: Hanoch, Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi.

    • Numbers 2:11

      The leader of the Reubenites is Elizur son of Shedeur, and his division numbers 46,500.

    • Numbers 26:21

      And these were the descendants of Perez: the Hezronite clan from Hezron and the Hamulite clan from Hamul.

Where this verse is studied

On this page

Studies1

About Numbers

The Bronze Serpent, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
The Bronze Serpent, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
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This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Calvin, Commentary on the Four Last Books of Moses Arranged in the Form of a Harmony and John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763).

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