Numbers 1:46 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

Even all they that were numbered, &c.— Upon an exact poll, wherein every man's name was distinctly set down and his pedigree stated, the number of true-born Israelites, from twenty years old and upwards, stood thus in the gross: (for there seems no room to doubt, that a few odd numbers were neglected, in order to make the several sums round as we find them; see Calmet, and Exodus 38:26.)

In the tribe of Reuben

46,500

Simeon

59,300

Gad

45,650

Judah

74,600

Issachar

54,400

Zebulun

57,400

Ephraim

40,500

Manasseh

32,200

Benjamin

35,400

Dan

62,700

Asher

41,500

Naphtali

53,400

Total

603,550

Numbers 1:46

46 Even all they that were numbered were six hundred thousand and three thousand and five hundred and fifty.