Numbers - 2:30



30 His division, and those who were numbered of them, were fifty-three thousand four hundred.

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Explanation and meaning of Numbers 2:30.

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The whole army of his fighting men, were fifty-three thousand four hundred.
and his host, and their numbered ones, are three and fifty thousand and four hundred.
The number of his army was fifty-three thousand, four hundred.
Et exercitus ejus numeratique eorum, tria et quinquaginta millia atque quadringenti.

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Historical Commentaries

Scholarly Analysis and Interpretation.

And his host,.... That is, the host of Naphtali:
and those that were numbered of them; not that some part of the tribe of Naphtali was numbered, which made up the host Ahira was captain of, but the whole of it, who were all numbered that were of twenty years of age and upwards; and the same is to be observed in all the above places, where this phrase is used:
were fifty and three thousand and four hundred. 53,400 men; see Numbers 1:43.

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