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20-21 This is the number of men twenty years old or older who were able to go to war, as their names were listed in the records of their clans and families[a]:

TribeNumber
Reuben (Jacob’s[b] oldest son)46,500
22-23 Simeon59,300
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Footnotes

  1. 1:20-21a In the Hebrew text, this sentence (This is the number of men twenty years old or older who were able to go to war, as their names were listed in the records of their clans and families) is repeated in 1:22, 24, 26, 28, 30, 32, 34, 36, 38, 40, 42.
  2. 1:20-21b Hebrew Israel’s. The names “Jacob” and “Israel” are often interchanged throughout the Old Testament, referring sometimes to the individual patriarch and sometimes to the nation.

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