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New Century Version

Numbers 1:21

The tribe of Reuben totaled 46,500 men.

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 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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Christian Standard Bible®
those registered for the tribe of Reuben numbered 46,500.
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

17 Moses and Aaron took these men who had been picked 18 and called all the people of Israel together on the first day of the second month. Then the people were listed by their families and family groups, and all the men who were twenty years old or older were listed by name. 19 Moses did exactly what the Lord had commanded and listed the people while they were in the Desert of Sinai. 20 The tribe of Reuben, the first son born to Israel, was counted; all the men twenty years old or older who were able to serve in the army were listed by name with their families and family groups. 21 The tribe of Reuben totaled 46,500 men. 22 The tribe of Simeon was counted; all the men twenty years old or older who were able to serve in the army were listed by name with their families and family groups. 23 The tribe of Simeon totaled 59,300 men. 24 The tribe of Gad was counted; all the men twenty years old or older who were able to serve in the army were listed by name with their families and family groups. 25 The tribe of Gad totaled 45,650 men. 26 The tribe of Judah was counted; all the men twenty years old or older who were able to serve in the army were listed by name with their families and family groups.

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 over the day and over the night, and to separate the light from the darkness. God saw that all these things were good.
Genesis 1:24
Then God said, "Let the earth be filled with animals, each producing more of its own kind. Let there be tame animals and small crawling animals and wild animals, and let each produce more of its kind." And it happened.
Genesis 1:25
So God made the wild animals, the tame animals, and all the small crawling animals to produce more of their own kind. God saw that this was good.
Genesis 1:26
Then God said, "Let us make human beings in our image and likeness. And let them rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the tame animals, over all the earth, and over all the small crawling animals on the earth."
Genesis 1:31
God looked at everything he had made, and it was very good. Evening passed, and morning came. This was the sixth day.
Genesis 6:20
Two of every kind of bird, animal, and crawling thing will come to you to be kept alive.
Genesis 7:14
They had every kind of wild and tame animal, every kind of animal that crawls on the earth, and every kind of bird.
Genesis 8:17
Bring every animal out of the boat with you—the birds, animals, and everything that crawls on the earth. Let them have many young ones so that they might grow in number."
Genesis 8:19
Every animal, everything that crawls on the earth, and every bird went out of the boat by families.
Genesis 9:7
"As for you, Noah, I want you and your family to have many children, to grow in number on the earth, and to become many."

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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