Numbers 1:23
Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Simeon, were fifty and nine thousand and three hundred.
Numbers 1:23 in other translations
| BSB | those registered to the tribe of Simeon numbered 59,300. |
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| WEB | those who were counted of them, of the tribe of Simeon, were fifty-nine thousand three hundred. |
| ASV | those that were numbered of them, of the tribe of Simeon, were fifty and nine thousand and three hundred. |
| YLT | their numbered ones, for the tribe of Simeon, are nine and fifty thousand and three hundred. |
| DARBY | those that were numbered of them, of the tribe of Simeon, were fifty-nine thousand three hundred. |
| BBE | Fifty-nine thousand, three hundred of the tribe of Simeon were numbered. |
| Webster | Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Simeon, were fifty and nine thousand and three hundred. |
What does Numbers 1:23 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Numbers 1:20-44
20-44. These are those that were numbered--In this registration the tribe of Judah appears the most numerous; and accordingly, as the pre-eminence had been assigned to it by Jacob [Ge 49:8-12], it got the precedence in all the encampments of Israel. Of the two half-tribes of Joseph, who is seen to be "a fruitful bough" [Ge 49:22], that of Ephraim was the larger, as had been predicted. The relative increase of all…
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Numbers 1:1-43
The people were numbered to show God's faithfulness in thus increasing the seed of Jacob, that they might be the better trained for the wars and conquest of Canaan, and to ascertain their families in order to the division of the land. It is said of each tribe, that those were numbered who were able to go forth to war; they had wars before them, though now they met with no opposition. Let the believer be prepared to…
Numbers 1:23 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Numbers 1:23
- Numbers 26:14
These are the families of the Simeonites, twenty and two thousand and two hundred.
- Numbers 25:14
Now the name of the Israelite that was slain, even that was slain with the Midianitish woman, was Zimri, the son of Salu, a prince of a chief house among the Simeonites.
- Numbers 25:8-9
And he went after the man of Israel into the tent, and thrust both of them through, the man of Israel, and the woman through her belly. So the plague was stayed from the children of Israel. And those that died in the plague were twenty and four thousand.
- Numbers 2:13
And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were fifty and nine thousand and three hundred.
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Context
- Numbers 1:22
Of the children of Simeon, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, those that were numbered of them, according to the number of the names, by their polls, every male from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;
- Numbers 1:23
Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Simeon, were fifty and nine thousand and three hundred.
- Numbers 1:24
Of the children of Gad, 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 1:23 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Los contados de ellos, de la tribu de Simeón, cincuenta y nueve mil y trescientos. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | ceux qui furent dénombrés de la tribu de Siméon furent 59 300. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | ihre Gemusterten vom Stamme Simeon, 59300. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | quinquaginta novem millia trecenti. |