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
"And on the south side, the standard of the host of Reuben shall lie with their companies; and the captain over the sons of Reuben, Elizur the son of Shedeur:

General references

Numbers 2:11
and his host, and the number of them, forty six thousand, and five hundred.
Numbers 3:34
And the number of them - when all the males from a month old and above was told - drew unto six thousand and two hundred.