Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Issachar, were fifty and four thousand and four hundred.
The number of men counted from the tribe of Issachar was fifty-four thousand four hundred.
This verse records that 54,400 men from the tribe of Issachar were counted in Israel's first military census.
📚 Historical Context
In the book of Numbers, which details the Israelites' journey from Egypt to the Promised Land, God commanded Moses to conduct a census of the able-bodied men from each tribe to prepare for potential battles and to organize the community. This took place in the wilderness of Sinai, about a year after the Exodus, as the Israelites were forming their national structure and military readiness. The count of 54,400 men from the tribe of Issachar illustrates the size and role of individual tribes within the larger Israelite nation.
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