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Numbers 1:21 Cross-References
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“Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Reuben, were forty and six thousand and five hundred.”
Numbers 1:21 (KJV)
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Commentary on Numbers 1:21
The specific number (46,500) demonstrates God's exhaustive knowledge of His people and the precise fulfillment of His promise to Abraham that his descendants would be numerous. Each number represented a real person known individually to God, anticipating Jesus's teaching that God knows the number of hairs on each head (Matthew 10:30). The census combined both God's corporate care for His people and His particular providence over individuals.
Source: KJV Study Commentary
Cross-References for Numbers 1:21
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“These are the families of the Reubenites: and they that were numbered of them were forty and three thousand and seven hundred and thirty.”