KJV ORIGINAL
These are the families of Issachar according to those that were numbered of them, threescore and four thousand and three hundred.
Close to the original. Clear modern English.
✦ MADE SIMPLE
These are the families of Issachar according to those who were counted among them: sixty-four thousand three hundred.
⚡ THE BOTTOM LINE
This verse records that the tribe of Issachar had 64,300 people when Moses conducted a census of the Israelites.
📚 Historical Context
This census took place near the end of Israel's 40 years of wandering in the wilderness, just before they entered the Promised Land. Moses was counting all the men aged 20 and older who were able to serve in the military. This was the second major census recorded in Numbers, with the first one taken at Mount Sinai nearly 40 years earlier.
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