Numbers 1:21
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New International Version (©2011)
The number from the tribe of Reuben was 46,500.

New Living Translation (©2007)

English Standard Version (©2001)
those listed of the tribe of Reuben were 46,500.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
their numbered men of the tribe of Reuben were 46,500.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Reuben, were forty and six thousand and five hundred.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
those registered for the tribe of Reuben numbered 46,500.

International Standard Version (©2012)
Those registered with the tribe of Reuben numbered 46,500.

NET Bible (©2006)
Those of them who were numbered from the tribe of Reuben were 46,500.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
The total for the tribe of Reuben was 46,500.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Reuben, were forty and six thousand and five hundred.

American King James Version
Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Reuben, were forty and six thousand and five hundred.

American Standard Version
those that were numbered of them, of the tribe of Reuben, were forty and six thousand and five hundred.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Were forty-six thousand five hundred.

Darby Bible Translation
those that were numbered of them, of the tribe of Reuben, were forty-six thousand five hundred.

English Revised Version
those that were numbered of them, of the tribe of Reuben, were forty and six thousand and five hundred.

Webster's Bible Translation
Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Reuben, were forty and six thousand and five hundred.

World English Bible
those who were numbered of them, of the tribe of Reuben, were forty-six thousand five hundred.

Young's Literal Translation
their numbered ones, for the tribe of Reuben, are six and forty thousand and five hundred.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

1:1-43 The people were numbered to show God's faithfulness in thus increasing the seed of Jacob, that they might be the better trained for the wars and conquest of Canaan, and to ascertain their families in order to the division of the land. It is said of each tribe, that those were numbered who were able to go forth to war; they had wars before them, though now they met with no opposition. Let the believer be prepared to withstand the enemies of his soul, though all may appear to be peace.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 21. - Forty and six thousand and five hundred. All the numbers (save of Gad only) are in unbroken hundreds. It might have been so arranged by miracle; but such an overruling would have no assignable object, and therefore it is far better to fall back on the obvious and natural explanation that the totals were approximate. If they were simply the poll-tax figures unaltered, it would be natural to suppose that the offerings were made up in fifty-shekel lots, and the offerers divided as nearly as possible into hundreds. For military purposes a certain number of supernumeraries would be convenient. In the one excepted case of Gad a half-hundred appears for some unexplained cause,

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Reuben, were forty and six thousand and five hundred. 46,500 men. See Gill on Numbers 1:20.

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The Number of Every Tribe
…20And the children of Reuben, Israel's oldest 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; …

Numbers 1:20 From the descendants of Reuben the firstborn son of Israel: All the men twenty years old or more who were able to serve in the army were listed by name, one by one, according to the records of their clans and families.
Numbers 1:22 From the descendants of Simeon: All the men twenty years old or more who were able to serve in the army were counted and listed by name, one by one, according to the records of their clans and families.
Numbers 26:7 These were the clans of Reuben; those numbered were 43,730.