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New King James Version

Numbers 1:21

those who were numbered of the tribe of Reuben were forty-six thousand five hundred.

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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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 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 Then Moses and Aaron took these men who had been mentioned by name, 18 and they assembled all the congregation together on the first day of the second month; and they recited their ancestry by families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and above, each one individually. 19 As the LORD commanded Moses, so he numbered them in the Wilderness of Sinai. 20 Now the children of Reuben, Israel's oldest son, their genealogies by their families, by their fathers' house, according to the number of names, every male individually, from twenty years old and above, all who were able to go to war: 21 those who were numbered of the tribe of Reuben were forty-six thousand five hundred. 22 From the children of Simeon, their genealogies by their families, by their fathers' house, of those who were numbered, according to the number of names, every male individually, from twenty years old and above, all who were able to go to war: 23 those who were numbered of the tribe of Simeon were fifty-nine thousand three hundred. 24 From the children of Gad, their genealogies by their families, by their fathers' house, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and above, all who were able to go to war: 25 those who were numbered of the tribe of Gad were forty-five thousand six hundred and fifty. 26 From the children of Judah, their genealogies by their families, by their fathers' house, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and above, all who were able to go to war:

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
and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness. And God saw that it was good.
Genesis 1:24
Then God said, "Let the earth bring forth the living creature according to its kind: cattle and creeping thing and beast of the earth, each according to its kind"; and it was so.
Genesis 1:25
And God made the beast of the earth according to its kind, cattle according to its kind, and everything that creeps on the earth according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.
Genesis 1:26
Then God said, "Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all [fn] the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth."
Genesis 1:31
Then God saw everything that He had made, and indeed it was very good. So the evening and the morning were the sixth day.
Genesis 6:20
Of the birds after their kind, of animals after their kind, and of every creeping thing of the earth after its kind, two of every kind will come to you to keep them alive.
Genesis 7:14
they and every beast after its kind, all cattle after their kind, every creeping thing that creeps on the earth after its kind, and every bird after its kind, every bird of every sort.
Genesis 8:17
Bring out with you every living thing of all flesh that is with you: birds and cattle and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, so that they may abound on the earth, and be fruitful and multiply on the earth."
Genesis 8:19
Every animal, every creeping thing, every bird, and whatever creeps on the earth, according to their families, went out of the ark.
Genesis 9:7
And as for you, be fruitful and multiply; Bring forth abundantly in the earth And multiply in 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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