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Numbers 1:23
those registered to the tribe of Simeon numbered 59,300.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Moses and Aaron record the military census of Israel at Sinai, listing enrolled men from each tribe according to clan and family. This verse reports the Simeonite count immediately after defining the inclusion criteria of twenty-year-old males able to serve.
The words — The Hebrew text uses פְּקֻדֵי (pekuḏê), meaning "enrolled ones" or "those registered," followed by the exact numeral תִּשְׁעָה וַחֲמִשִּׁים אֶלֶף וּשְׁלֹשׁ מֵאוֹת (nine, fifty, thousand, and three hundred).
The thread — The identical total appears in Numbers 2:13 regarding Simeon's camp placement and declines to 22,200 in Numbers 26:14 after the wilderness generation's judgment.
Why it lands — The text states a precise, unembellished tally of Simeon's fighting men to document Israel's organized readiness. It requires the reader to track how divine ordering and subsequent covenant failure alter the nation's demographic reality.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Simeon, were fifty and nine thousand and three hundred.
Cross-references
- Numbers 26:14 These were the clans of Simeon, and there were 22,200 men.
- Numbers 2:13 and his division numbers 59,300.
- Numbers 25:8 followed the Israelite into the tent, and drove the spear through both of them—through the Israelite and on through the belly of the woman. So the plague against the Israelites was halted,
- Numbers 25:14 The name of the Israelite who was slain with the Midianite woman was Zimri son of Salu, the leader of a Simeonite family.