KJV ORIGINAL
Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Issachar, were fifty and four thousand and four hundred.
Close to the original. Clear modern English.
✦ MADE SIMPLE
The number of men counted from the tribe of Issachar was fifty-four thousand four hundred.
⚡ THE BOTTOM LINE
This verse records that 54,400 men from the tribe of Issachar were counted in Israel's first military census.
📚 Historical Context
This census took place in the wilderness of Sinai about a year after the Israelites left Egypt. God commanded Moses to count all men twenty years old and older who were able to serve in the army, organizing them by their ancestral tribes. This was both a military preparation and a way to organize the nation as they prepared to enter the Promised Land.
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