²⁰The descendants of Reuben,^k the firstborn of Israel: according to their family records by their clans and their ancestral families, counting one by one the names of every male twenty years old or more, everyone who could serve in the army, ²¹those registered for the tribe of Reuben numbered 46,500.

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k Gn 29:32; 49:3–4; 1Ch 5:1

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ESVEnglish Standard Version

The people of Reuben, Israel’s firstborn, 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, all who were able to go to war: those listed of the tribe of Reuben were 46,500.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

From the descendants of Reuben the firstborn son of Israel:

All the men twenty years old or more who were able to serve in the army were listed by name, one by one, according to the records of their clans and families. The number from the tribe of Reuben was 46,500.

NLTNew Living Translation

This is the number of men twenty years old or older who were able to go to war, as their names were listed in the records of their clans and families:

Reuben (Jacob’s oldest son)

46,500

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

The descendants of Reuben, the firstborn of Israel, their genealogies according to their clans, according to their families, according to the number of names, every male individually from twenty years old and above, everyone who is able to go to war: those who were counted from the tribe of Reuben were forty-six thousand five hundred.

KJV 1900King James Version

And the children of Reuben, Israel’s eldest son, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, by their polls, every male from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war; Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Reuben, were forty and six thousand and five hundred.

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