7These are the families of the Reubenites: and they that were numbered of them were forty and three thousand and seven hundred and thirty.
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And it came to pass after the plague, that the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, saying,
And his host, and those that were numbered thereof, were forty and six thousand and five hundred.
And the sons of Pharez were; of Hezron, the family of the Hezronites: of Hamul, the family of the Hamulites.
And the sons of Reuben; Hanoch, and Phallu, and Hezron, and Carmi.
Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Reuben, were forty and six thousand and five hundred.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 5-51)This is the register of the tribes as they were now enrolled, in the same order that they were numbered in Num. 1:1-54. Observe, I. The account that is here kept of the families of each tribe, which must not be understood of such as we call families, those that live in a house together, but such as were the descendants of the several sons of the patriarchs, by whose names, in honour of them, their…
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