18 and they assembled all the congregation together on the first day of the second month; and they recited their aancestry 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 achildren 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 wereableto go to war:
21 those who were numbered of the tribe of Reuben were forty-six thousand five hundred.
22 From the achildren 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 wereableto go to war:
23 those who were numbered of the tribe of Simeon were fifty-nine thousand three hundred.
24 From the achildren 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 wereableto go to war:
25 those who were numbered of the tribe of Gad were forty-five thousand six hundred and fifty.
26 From the achildren 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 wereableto go to war:
27 those who were numbered of the tribe of Judah wereaseventy-four thousand six hundred.
28 From the achildren of Issachar, their genealogies by their families, by their fathers’ house, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and above, all who wereableto go to war:
29 those who were numbered of the tribe of Issachar were fifty-four thousand four hundred.
30 From the achildren of Zebulun, their genealogies by their families, by their fathers’ house, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and above, all who wereableto go to war:
31 those who were numbered of the tribe of Zebulun were fifty-seven thousand four hundred.
32 From the sons of Joseph, the achildren of Ephraim, their genealogies by their families, by their fathers’ house, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and above, all who wereableto go to war:
33 those who were numbered of the tribe of Ephraim were forty thousand five hundred.
34 From the achildren of Manasseh, their genealogies by their families, by their fathers’ house, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and above, all who wereableto go to war:
35 those who were numbered of the tribe of Manasseh were thirty-two thousand two hundred.
36 From the achildren of Benjamin, their genealogies by their families, by their fathers’ house, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and above, all who wereableto go to war:
37 those who were numbered of the tribe of Benjamin were thirty-five thousand four hundred.
38 From the achildren of Dan, their genealogies by their families, by their fathers’ house, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and above, all who wereableto go to war:
39 those who were numbered of the tribe of Dan were sixty-two thousand seven hundred.
40 From the achildren of Asher, their genealogies by their families, by their fathers’ house, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and above, all who wereableto go to war:
41 those who were numbered of the tribe of Asher were forty-one thousand five hundred.
42 From the children of Naphtali, their genealogies by their families, by their fathers’ house, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and above, all who wereableto go to war:
43 those who were numbered of the tribe of Naphtali were fifty-three thousand four hundred.
44aThese are the ones who were numbered, whom Moses and Aaron numbered, with the leaders of Israel, twelve men, each one representing his father’s house.
45 So all who were numbered of the children of Israel, by their fathers’ houses, from twenty years old and above, all who wereableto go to war in Israel—
46 all who were numbered were asix hundred and three thousand five hundred and fifty.
The enrollment, being taken principally for military purposes (compare Numbers 1:3, Numbers 1:20), would naturally be arranged by hundreds, fifties, etc. (cf. II Kings 1:9, II Kings 1:11, II 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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