Forty thousand and five hundred. — This shows a decrease of 5,150. Reuben, Simeon, and Gad encamped together on the south of the Tabernacle (Numbers 2:10), and had probably been mutually contaminated by each other’s evil example.
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Numbers 26:18
18 These are the families of the children of Gad according to those that were numbered of them, forty thousand and five hundred.