Numbers 1:21
What does Numbers 1:21 mean?
A plain-English look at Numbers 1:21 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000those that were numbered of them, of the tribe of Reuben, were forty and six thousand and five hundred.
KJV
King James Version · 1611Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Reuben, were forty and six thousand and five hundred.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901those that were numbered of them, of the tribe of Reuben, were forty and six thousand and five hundred.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949Forty-six thousand, five hundred of the tribe of Reuben were numbered.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862their numbered ones, for the tribe of Reuben, are six and forty thousand and five hundred.
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752Were forty-six thousand five hundred.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890those that were numbered of them, of the tribe of Reuben, were forty-six thousand five hundred.
Context
v.20And the children of Reuben, Israel’s first-born, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, 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;
v.21This passage
v.22Of the children of Simeon, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, those that were numbered thereof, 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;
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Numbers 2:10
On the south side shall be the standard of the camp of Reuben according to their hosts: and the prince 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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