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Numbers 1:21

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

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Israel;   Reubenites;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Desert, Journey of Israel through the;   Reuben, the Tribe of;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Agag;   Jazer;   Reuben;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Palestine;   Reuben, Tribe of;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Reuben;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Genealogies;   Number Systems and Number Symbolism;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Moses;   Numbers, Book of;   Reuben;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Census;   Poll;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Reu'ben;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Zebulun;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Events of the Encampment;   Last Days at Sinai;   On to Canaan;   Moses, the Man of God;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Exodus, the Book of;   Reuben;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Genealogy;   Hafá¹­arah;   Reuben, Tribe of;   Sidra;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
those who were numbered of them, of the tribe of Re'uven, were forty-six thousand five hundred.
King James Version
Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Reuben, were forty and six thousand and five hundred.
Lexham English Bible
those who were counted from the tribe of Reuben were forty-six thousand five hundred.
New Century Version
The tribe of Reuben totaled 46,500 men.
New English Translation
Those of them who were numbered from the tribe of Reuben were 46,500.
Amplified Bible
those of the tribe of Reuben numbered 46,500.
New American Standard Bible
their numbered men of the tribe of Reuben were 46,500.
Geneva Bible (1587)
The nomber of them, I say, of the tribe of Reuben, was sixe and fourtie thousande, and fiue hundreth.
Legacy Standard Bible
their numbered men of the tribe of Reuben were 46,500.
Complete Jewish Bible
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Darby Translation
those that were numbered of them, of the tribe of Reuben, were forty-six thousand five hundred.
Easy-to-Read Version
The total number of men counted from the tribe of Reuben was 46,500.
English Standard Version
those listed of the tribe of Reuben were 46,500.
George Lamsa Translation
The number of the tribe of Reuben was forty-six thousand and five hundred.
Good News Translation
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Literal Translation
those numbered of them for the tribe of Reuben were forty six thousand and five hundred.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
were nombred to the trybe of Ruben, sixe and fourtye thousande, and fyue hundreth.
American Standard Version
those that were numbered of them, of the tribe of Reuben, were forty and six thousand and five hundred.
Bible in Basic English
Forty-six thousand, five hundred of the tribe of Reuben were numbered.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
The number of them that were of the tribe of Ruben, was fourtie & sixe thousande, and fiue hundred.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
those that were numbered of them, of the tribe of Reuben, were forty and six thousand and five hundred.
King James Version (1611)
Those that were numbred of them, euen of the tribe of Reuben, were fourty and sixe thousand and fiue hundred.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
the numbering of them of the tribe of Ruben, was forty-six thousand and four hundred.
English Revised Version
those that were numbered of them, of the tribe of Reuben, were forty and six thousand and five hundred.
Berean Standard Bible
those registered to the tribe of Reuben numbered 46,500.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
sixe and fourti thousynd and fyue hundrid.
Young's Literal Translation
their numbered ones, for the tribe of Reuben, are six and forty thousand and five hundred.
Update Bible Version
those that were numbered of them, of the tribe of Reuben, were forty and six thousand and five hundred.
Webster's Bible Translation
Those that were numbered of them, [even] of the tribe of Reuben, [were] forty and six thousand and five hundred.
World English Bible
those who were numbered of them, of the tribe of Reuben, were forty-six thousand five hundred.
New King James Version
those who were numbered of the tribe of Reuben were forty-six thousand five hundred.
New Life Bible
The number of the family of Reuben was 46,500.
New Revised Standard
those enrolled of the tribe of Reuben were forty-six thousand five hundred.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
such as were numbered of them as belonging to the tribe of Reuben, forty-six thousand and five hundred.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Were forty-six thousand five hundred.
Revised Standard Version
the number of the tribe of Reuben was forty-six thousand five hundred.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
their numbered men of the tribe of Reuben were 46,500.

Contextual Overview

17So Moses and Aaron took these men who had been designated by name, 18and they assembled the whole community on the first day of the second month. They recorded their ancestry by their clans and their ancestral families, counting one by one the names of those twenty years old or more, 19just as the Lord commanded Moses. He registered them in the Wilderness of Sinai: 20The descendants of Reuben, the firstborn of Israel: according to their family records by their clans and their ancestral families, counting one by one the names of every male twenty years old or more, everyone who could serve in the army, 21those registered for the tribe of Reuben numbered 46,500.22The descendants of Simeon: according to their family records by their clans and their ancestral families, those registered counting one by one the names of every male twenty years old or more, everyone who could serve in the army, 23those registered for the tribe of Simeon numbered 59,300. 24The descendants of Gad: according to their family records by their clans and their ancestral families, counting the names of those twenty years old or more, everyone who could serve in the army, 25those registered for the tribe of Gad numbered 45,650. 26The descendants of Judah: according to their family records by their clans and their ancestral families, counting the names of those twenty years old or more, everyone who could serve in the army,

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

That a comparative view may be easily taken of the state of the tribes, we will here produce them, compared with that of the second census - Numbers 26:1, in their decreasing proportion, beginning with the greatest and proceeding to the least.

Tribe 1st Census 2nd Census

Judah 74,600 76,500

Dan 62,700 64,400

Simeon 59,300 22,200

Zebulun 57,400 60,500

Issachar 54,400 64,300

Naphtali 53,400 45,400

Reuben 46,500 43,730

Gad 45,650 40,500

Asher 41,500 53,400

Ephraim 40,500 32,500

Benjamin 35,400 45,600

Manasseh 32,200 52,700

Totals: 603,550 601,730

Thus we find Judah the most populous tribe, and Manasseh the least so; the difference between them being as great as 42,000. Jacob had given Judah the pre-eminence in his prophetic blessing; and that tribe was to have the precedency in the encampments of Israel: accordingly God had increased them more than any of their brethren. Ephraim and Manasseh, according to the same prophecy, were numbered as distinct tribes, Ephraim having the superiority, as it was foretold; and Joseph indeed appears "a fruitful bough." Numbers 2:10, Numbers 2:11, Numbers 26:7

Reciprocal: Genesis 46:8 - Reuben Numbers 3:34 - General

Cross-References

Genesis 1:18
to rule the day and the night, and to separate light from darkness. And God saw that it was good.
Genesis 1:24
Then God said, “Let the earth produce living creatures according to their kinds: livestock, creatures that crawl, and the wildlife of the earth according to their kinds.” And it was so.
Genesis 1:25
So God made the wildlife of the earth according to their kinds, the livestock according to their kinds, and all the creatures that crawl on the ground according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.
Genesis 1:26
Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, according to our likeness. They will rule the fish of the sea, the birds of the sky, the livestock, the whole earth, and the creatures that crawl on the earth.”
Genesis 1:31
God saw all that he had made, and it was very good indeed. Evening came and then morning: the sixth day.
Genesis 6:20
Two of everything—from the birds according to their kinds, from the livestock according to their kinds, and from the animals that crawl on the ground according to their kinds—will come to you so that you can keep them alive.
Genesis 7:14
They entered it with all the wildlife according to their kinds, all livestock according to their kinds, all the creatures that crawl on the earth according to their kinds, every flying creature—all the birds and every winged creature—according to their kinds.
Genesis 8:17
Bring out all the living creatures that are with you—birds, livestock, those that crawl on the earth—and they will spread over the earth and be fruitful and multiply on the earth.”
Genesis 8:19
All the animals, all the creatures that crawl, and all the flying creatures—everything that moves on the earth—came out of the ark by their families.
Genesis 9:7
But you, be fruitful and multiply; spread out over the earth and multiply on it.”

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Those that were numbered of them, [even] of the tribe of Reuben, [were] forty and six thousand and five hundred. 46,500 men.

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Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The enrollment, being taken principally for military purposes (compare Numbers 1:3, Numbers 1:20), would naturally be arranged by hundreds, fifties, etc. (cf. 2Ki 1:9, 2 Kings 1:11, 2 Kings 1:13). In eleven tribes the number enrolled consists of complete hundreds. The difference, in this respect, observable in the case of the tribe of Gad here Numbers 1:25, and of the tribe of Reuben at the later census Numbers 26:7, is probably to be accounted for by the pastoral, and consequently nomadic, habits of these tribes, which rendered it difficult to bring all their members together at once for a census. Judah already takes precedence of his brethren in point of numbers (compare Genesis 49:8 note), and Ephraim of Manasseh (compare Genesis 48:19-20).


 
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