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Summary

These are the families of the Simeonites, twenty and two thousand and two hundred.

The immense decrease of this tribe, no less than 37,100, renders it highly probable, that, influenced by the bad example of zimri, the simeonites had been peculiarly criminal in the late wickedness, and that multitudes of them had died of the plague

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The immense decrease of this tribe, no less than 37,100, renders it highly probable, that, influenced by the bad example of zimri, the simeonites had been peculiarly criminal in the late wickedness, and that multitudes of them had died of the plague

Numbers 1:22
Among the children of Simeon, their generation in their kindreds and houses of their fathers - when every man's name was told, of all the males from twenty years and above, whatsoever was meet for the war -
Numbers 2:12
And fast by him shall the tribe of Simeon pitch; and the captain over the sons of Simeon, Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai:

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Numbers 1:22
Among the children of Simeon, their generation in their kindreds and houses of their fathers - when every man's name was told, of all the males from twenty years and above, whatsoever was meet for the war -
Numbers 2:13
and his host, and the number of them, forty nine thousand and three hundred.