Numbers 1:35

those registered to the tribe of Manasseh numbered 32,200.

Berean Standard Bible

Study note

Setting — The narrator records the census results for the tribe of Manasseh during the initial wilderness encampment, immediately following the command to count men twenty years old or older capable of military service.

The words — פְּקֻדֵיהֶם (pequdeihem) translates literally as "their enrolled [men]" or "their numbered [men]," and לְמַטֵּה מְנַשֶּׁה (lematteh Menasheh) means "of the tribe of Manasseh."

The thread — This exact figure of 32,200 is repeated in Numbers 2:21 to designate tribal camp positioning, while a later census in Numbers 26:34 records 52,700 men for the same tribe.

Why it lands — The text supplies a precise demographic tally, requiring the reader to observe the structured organization of the Israelite tribes and track how their population figures shift across generations.

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The Hebrew words

פְּקֻדֵיהֶ֖םpe.ku.dei./Hemenrolled [men]/ their לְמַטֵּ֣הle./ma.Tehof/ [the] tribe of מְנַשֶּׁ֑הme.na.ShehManasseh שְׁנַ֧יִםshe.Na.yim[were] two וּשְׁלֹשִׁ֛יםu./she.lo.Shimand/ thirty אֶ֖לֶף'E.lefthousand וּמָאתָֽיִם׃ פu./ma.Ta.yimand/ two hundred

King James Version

Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Manasseh, were thirty and two thousand and two hundred.

Cross-references

Numbers 26:34 These were the clans of Manasseh, and their registration numbered 52,700.
Genesis 48:19 But his father refused. “I know, my son, I know!” he said. “He too shall become a people, and he too shall be great; nevertheless, his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his offspring shall become a multitude of nations.”
Numbers 2:21 and his division numbers 32,200.