KJV ORIGINAL
These are the families of the Simeonites, twenty and two thousand and two hundred.
Close to the original. Clear modern English.
✦ MADE SIMPLE
These are the families of the tribe of Simeon, numbering twenty-two thousand two hundred people.
⚡ THE BOTTOM LINE
This verse records that the tribe of Simeon had 22,200 people when Moses counted all the Israelites in the wilderness.
📚 Historical Context
This census was taken near the end of Israel's 40 years of wandering in the wilderness, just before they entered the Promised Land. The tribe of Simeon had significantly decreased from 59,300 in the first census (Numbers 1:23) to 22,200, making it the smallest tribe. This dramatic decline may have been due to losses from plagues and judgment, including consequences from the incident at Baal-peor.
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