Numbers 1:37

those registered to the tribe of Benjamin numbered 35,400.

Berean Standard Bible

Study note

Setting — Moses and God conduct the initial Sinai census, recording the fighting-age men from each tribe. This verse records the specific enrollment total for the tribe of Benjamin.

The words — The text employs פְּקֻדֵיהֶם (peku-dei hem, "their enrolled [men]") alongside the numeral phrase חֲמִשָּׁה וְשָׁלֹשִׁים אֶלֶף וְאַרְבַּע מֵאוֹת (chamisha ushloshim elef ve'arba me'ot, "five and thirty thousand and four hundred").

The thread — The identical figure appears in Numbers 2:23 during the camp arrangement, while Numbers 26:41 records a later Benjamin census of 45,600. Judges 20:44 later notes 18,000 Benjamite casualties in battle.

Why it lands — The verse requires the reader to track the exact accounting of tribal military capacity as recorded in the text. It asks for attention to how the narrative grounds Israel's organization in concrete, verifiable numbers rather than generalized totals.

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The Hebrew words

פְּקֻדֵיהֶ֖םpe.ku.dei./Hemenrolled [men]/ their לְמַטֵּ֣הle./ma.Tehof/ [the] tribe of בִנְיָמִ֑ןvin.ya.MinBenjamin חֲמִשָּׁ֧הcha.mi.Shah[were] five וּשְׁלֹשִׁ֛יםu./she.lo.Shimand/ thirty אֶ֖לֶף'E.lefthousand וְאַרְבַּ֥עve./'ar.Ba'and/ four מֵאֽוֹת׃ פme.'othundred<s>

King James Version

Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Benjamin, were thirty and five thousand and four hundred.

Cross-references

Numbers 26:41 These were the clans of Benjamin, and their registration numbered 45,600.
Numbers 2:23 and his division numbers 35,400.
Judges 20:44 And 18,000 Benjamites fell, all men of valor.
2 Chronicles 17:17 From Benjamin: Eliada, a mighty man of valor, and with him 200,000 armed with bows and shields;