Numbers 26:7 Made Simple

KJV ORIGINAL

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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✦ MADE SIMPLE

These are the families that came from Reuben's descendants, and when they counted all the men, there were 43,730 of them.

⚡ THE BOTTOM LINE

This verse records that Reuben's tribe had grown to 43,730 men during the census taken near the end of Israel's wilderness journey.

📚 Historical Context

This census was taken about 40 years after the first census in Numbers 1, as the Israelites prepared to enter the Promised Land. Reuben was Jacob's firstborn son, so his descendants formed one of the twelve tribes of Israel. Interestingly, this tribe had actually decreased in number from the first census, where they numbered 46,500.

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