19 As the Lord had commanded Moses, so he numbered them in the wilderness of Sinai.

20 So were the sons of [a]Reuben Israel’s eldest son by their generations, by their families, and by the houses of their fathers according to the number of their names, man by man, every male from twenty years old and above, as many as [b]went forth to war:

21 The number of them, I say, of the tribe of Reuben, was six and forty thousand, and five hundred.

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 1:20 These are the names of the twelve tribes, as first of Reuben.
  2. Numbers 1:20 Or, as were able to bear weapons.

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