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Numbers 1:20 KJV
Numbers · chapter 1 · verse 20
And the children of Reuben, Israel’s eldest son, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, by their polls, every male from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;Numbers 1:20 · King James Version
Numbers 1:20 in context
18And they assembled all the congregation together on the first day of the second month, and they declared their pedigrees after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, by their polls.
19As the LORD commanded Moses, so he numbered them in the wilderness of Sinai.
20And the children of Reuben, Israel’s eldest son, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, by their polls, every male from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;
21Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Reuben, were forty and six thousand and five hundred.
22Of the children of Simeon, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, those that were numbered of them, according to the number of the names, by their polls, every male from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- generationstôwlᵉdâhdescentH8435 →
- childrenbêna son , in the widest sense , etc.)H1121 →
- Israel'sYisrâʼêlJisrael, a symbolical name of JacobH3478 →
- familiesmishpâchâha familyH4940 →
- fathersʼâbfather, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote applicationH1 →
- ReubenRᵉʼûwbênReuben, a son of JacobH7205 →
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We have here the speedy execution of the orders given for the numbering of the people. It was begun the same day that the orders were given, The first day of the second month; compare Num 1:18 with Num 1:1.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 17-43