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Contextual view of family groups presenting themselves for registration, accompanying Reuben through Zebulun. No battle or modern writing equipment.
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Numbers 1:20-31

The first six tribal counts

The census at Sinai · Numbers 1

Story guide: Contextual illustration. Contextual view of family groups presenting themselves for registration, accompanying Reuben through Zebulun. No battle or modern writing equipment.

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20The sons of Reuben, the firstborn of Israel, by their generations, by their clans, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of names, head by head, every male from twenty years old and upward, everyone going out to war:

21Their counted men from the tribe of Reuben were forty-six thousand five hundred.

22For the sons of Simeon, by their generations, by their clans, by their fathers’ houses, those numbered of them, by the number of names, head by head, every male from twenty years old and upward, everyone going out to war:

23their counted men from the tribe of Simeon were fifty-nine thousand three hundred.

24For the sons of Gad, by their generations, by their clans, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, every man able to go out to war:

25Those counted from the tribe of Gad were forty-five thousand six hundred fifty.

26For the sons of Judah, by their generations, by their clans, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, every male going out to war:

27Those counted from the tribe of Judah were seventy-four thousand six hundred.

28For the sons of Issachar, by their generations, by their clans, by their fathers’ houses, by the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, every man able to go out to war:

29those counted from the tribe of Issachar were fifty-four thousand four hundred.

30For the sons of Zebulun, by their generations, by their clans, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, every male able to go out to war:

31Those registered from the tribe of Zebulun were 57,400.

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