KJV ORIGINAL
These are the sons of Benjamin after their families: and they that were numbered of them were forty and five thousand and six hundred.
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✦ MADE SIMPLE
These are the descendants of Benjamin organized by their family groups, and when they were counted, there were 45,600 of them.
⚡ THE BOTTOM LINE
This verse records that Benjamin's tribe had grown to 45,600 people when Moses conducted a census of Israel.
📚 Historical Context
This census was taken near the end of Israel's 40 years in the wilderness, just before they entered the Promised Land. It was the second major census recorded in Numbers, meant to count the fighting men and organize the tribes for both military purposes and land distribution. Benjamin was one of the twelve tribes of Israel, descended from Jacob's youngest son.
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