Numbers 1:21
New International Version
The number from the tribe of Reuben was 46,500.

New Living Translation


English Standard Version
those listed of the tribe of Reuben were 46,500.

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

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

New King James Version
those who were numbered of the tribe of Reuben were forty-six thousand five hundred.

New American Standard Bible
their numbered men of the tribe of Reuben were 46,500.

NASB 1995
their numbered men of the tribe of Reuben were 46,500.

NASB 1977
their numbered men, of the tribe of Reuben, were 46,500.

Legacy Standard Bible
their numbered men of the tribe of Reuben were 46,500.

Amplified Bible
those of the tribe of Reuben numbered 46,500.

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

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

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

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
The number of them of the tribe of Rubil: forty and six thousand five hundred.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
the numbering of them of the tribe of Ruben, was forty-six thousand and four hundred.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Were forty-six thousand five hundred.

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

GOD'S WORD® Translation
The total for the tribe of Reuben was 46,500.

International Standard Version
Those registered with the tribe of Reuben numbered 46,500.

JPS Tanakh 1917
those that were numbered of them, of the tribe of Reuben, were forty and six thousand and five hundred.

Literal Standard Version
their numbered ones, for the tribe of Reuben, are forty-six thousand and five hundred.

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

New American Bible
those enrolled from the tribe of Reuben were forty-six thousand five hundred.

NET Bible
Those of them who were numbered from the tribe of Reuben were 46,500.

New Revised Standard Version
those enrolled of the tribe of Reuben were forty-six thousand five hundred.

New Heart English Bible
those who were numbered of them, of the tribe of Reuben, were forty-six thousand 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 counted of them, of the tribe of Reuben, were forty-six thousand five hundred.

Young's Literal Translation
their numbered ones, for the tribe of Reuben, are six and forty thousand and five hundred.

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Context
The Number of Every Tribe
20From the sons of Reuben, the firstborn of Israel, according to the records of their clans and families, counting one by one the names of every male twenty years of age or older who could serve in the army, 21those registered to the tribe of Reuben numbered 46,500. 22From the sons of Simeon, according to the records of their clans and families, counting one by one the names of every male twenty years of age or older who could serve in the army,…

Cross References
Numbers 1:20
From the sons of Reuben, the firstborn of Israel, according to the records of their clans and families, counting one by one the names of every male twenty years of age or older who could serve in the army,

Numbers 1:22
From the sons of Simeon, according to the records of their clans and families, counting one by one the names of every male twenty years of age or older who could serve in the army,

Numbers 26:7
These were the clans of Reuben, and their registration numbered 43,730.


Treasury of Scripture

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

Numbers 1:26
Of the children of Judah, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;

Numbers 2:10,11
On the south side shall be the standard of the camp of Reuben according to their armies: and the captain of the children of Reuben shall be Elizur the son of Shedeur…

Numbers 26:7
These are the families of the Reubenites: and they that were numbered of them were forty and three thousand and seven hundred and thirty.

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Verse 21. - Forty and six thousand and five hundred. All the numbers (save of Gad only) are in unbroken hundreds. It might have been so arranged by miracle; but such an overruling would have no assignable object, and therefore it is far better to fall back on the obvious and natural explanation that the totals were approximate. If they were simply the poll-tax figures unaltered, it would be natural to suppose that the offerings were made up in fifty-shekel lots, and the offerers divided as nearly as possible into hundreds. For military purposes a certain number of supernumeraries would be convenient. In the one excepted case of Gad a half-hundred appears for some unexplained cause,

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Hebrew
those registered
פְּקֻדֵיהֶ֖ם (pə·qu·ḏê·hem)
Verb - Qal - QalPassParticiple - masculine plural construct | third person masculine plural
Strong's 6485: To visit, to oversee, muster, charge, care for, miss, deposit

to the tribe
לְמַטֵּ֣ה (lə·maṭ·ṭêh)
Preposition-l | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 4294: A staff, rod, shaft, branch, a tribe

of Reuben
רְאוּבֵ֑ן (rə·’ū·ḇên)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 7205: Reuben -- 'behold a son!' oldest son of Jacob, also his desc

numbered 46,500.
שִׁשָּׁ֧ה (šiš·šāh)
Number - masculine singular
Strong's 8337: Six (a cardinal number)


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