Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Reuben, were forty and six thousand and five hundred.

Thus we find judah the most populous tribe, and manasseh the least so; the difference between them being as great as 42,000

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Bible References

Thus we find judah the most populous tribe, and manasseh the least so; the difference between them being as great as 42,000

Numbers 2:10
"The standard of the camp of Reuben [will be] to the south according to their divisions. The leader of the descendants [will be] Elizur son of Shedeur.

General references

Numbers 2:11
And his division and the {ones counted} [are] forty-six thousand five hundred.
Numbers 3:34
The {ones counted} according to the number of every male from {one month} and above [were] six thousand two hundred.