KJV ORIGINAL
All the families of the Shuhamites, according to those that were numbered of them, were threescore and four thousand and four hundred.
Close to the original. Clear modern English.
✦ MADE SIMPLE
All the families of the Shuhamites, when they were counted, totaled 64,400 people.
⚡ THE BOTTOM LINE
This verse records that the Shuhamite clan numbered 64,400 people in the census.
📚 Historical Context
This verse is part of the second census taken by Moses in the wilderness, about 40 years after the Israelites left Egypt. The Shuhamites were descendants of Shuham, who was a son of Dan, one of Jacob's twelve sons. This census was conducted to count the new generation of Israelites who would enter the Promised Land, as the previous generation had died in the wilderness due to their disobedience.
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