Numbers - 1:37



37 those who were numbered of them, of the tribe of Benjamin, were thirty-five thousand four hundred.

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Explanation and meaning of Numbers 1:37.

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their numbered ones, for the tribe of Benjamin, are five and thirty thousand and four hundred.
Thirty-five thousand, four hundred of the tribe of Benjamin were numbered.
Numerati eorum de tribu Benjamin, quinque et triginta millie, et quadringenti.

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Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Benjamin, were thirty and five thousand and four hundred. 35,400 men. See Gill on Numbers 1:20.

Thirty five thousand - The smallest number, except one, though Benjamin had more immediate children than any of his brethren, Genesis 46:21, whereas Daniel had but one immediate son, Genesis 46:23, yet now his number is the biggest but one of all the tribes, and is almost double to that of Benjamin. Such great and strange changes God easily can, and frequently doth make in families, 1-Samuel 2:5. And therefore let none boast or please themselves too much in their numerous offspring.

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