These are the families of the Reubenites; and those who were numbered of them were forty-three thousand seven hundred thirty.
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These are the families of the Reubenites; and those who were numbered of them were forty-three thousand seven hundred thirty.
These are the families of the Reubenites: and they that were numbered of them were forty and three thousand and seven hundred and thirty.
These were the clans of the Reubenite. And their counted ones were 43, 730.
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These are the families of the Reubenites; and those who were numbered of them were forty-three thousand seven hundred thirty.
These were the clans of Reuben, and their registration numbered 43,730.
These were the clans of Reuben, and their registration numbered 43,730.
These are the families of the Reubenites: and they that were numbered of them were forty and three thousand and seven hundred and thirty.
These are the families of the Reubenites; and they that were numbered of them were forty and three thousand and seven hundred and thirty.
These are the families of the Reubenites: and they that were numbered of them were forty and three thousand and seven hundred and thirty.
These are the families of the Reubenites: and they were in nomber three and fourtie thousand, seuen hundreth and thirtie.
These are the families of the stock of Ruben: whose number was found to be forty-three thousand seven hundred and thirty.
These `are' families of the Reubenite, and their numbered ones are three and forty thousand and seven hundred and thirty.
These [are] families of the Reubenite, and their numbered ones are forty-three thousand and seven hundred and thirty.
These were the clans of Reuben, who numbered 43,730 men.
These were the clans of the Reubenite. And their counted ones were 43, 730.
These are the families of the Reubenites; and they that were numbered of them were forty-three thousand seven hundred and thirty.
These are the families of the Reubenites; and those who were counted of them were forty-three thousand seven hundred thirty.
These are the families of the Reubenites: and they that were numbered of them were forty and three thousand and seven hundred and thirty.
These were the families descended from Reuben and they numbered 43,730.
These are the families of the Reubenites: their number was forty-three thousand, seven hundred and thirty.
These are the families of the Reubenites; and they that were numbered of them were forty and three thousand and seven hundred and thirty.
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The rarest word here is הָרֻֽאוּבֵנִ֑י Reubenite H7206 — appearing just 18 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.
First appearance in Scripture
This word makes its first canonical appearance in the Hebrew Bible here:
Shared distinctive vocabulary
הָרֻֽאוּבֵנִ֑י Reubenite H7206 occurs in 17 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
Grammatical profile
Verb forms
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 20 words from the Hebrew and 17 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — closely comparable.
A rough comparison of the two English renderings, which tokenize alike — not a word-level alignment.
Word counts can differ between the Hebrew and the Greek without any difference in meaning — e.g. the Hebrew direct-object marker אֵת has no separate Greek word, and Greek often adds the article ὁ.
In the original languages it is 11 Hebrew tokens and 16 Greek tokens — but the two are counted differently (Hebrew bundles its prefixes and suffixes into one token; the Greek is in lemma form), so that isn’t a like-for-like length.
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The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.
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אֵ֖לֶּה מִשְׁפְּחֹ֣ת הָרֻֽאוּבֵנִ֑י וַיִּהְי֣וּ פְקֻדֵיהֶ֗ם שְׁלֹשָׁ֤ה וְאַרְבָּעִים֙ אֶ֔לֶף וּשְׁבַ֥ע מֵא֖וֹת וּשְׁלֹשִֽׁים
These are the families of the Reubenites; and those who were numbered of them were forty-three thousand seven hundred thirty.
World English Bible · Public Domain
οὗτος δῆμος ρουβην καί γίγνομαι ὁ ἐπίσκεψις αὐτός τρεῖς καί τεσσαράκοντα χιλιάς καί ἑπτακόσιοι καί τριάκοντα
These are the families of Ruben; and their numbering was forty-three thousand and seven hundred and thirty.
LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain
On this verse, The Pulpit Commentary discusses the Septuagint’s reading. Read the note in Commentary ↓
Hebrew: Westminster Leningrad Codex (CC BY 4.0). Greek: Septuagint (public domain); English from LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) (Public Domain). How the Septuagint differs from the Hebrew →
The Targum is the ancient Jewish Aramaic paraphrase of the Hebrew Scriptures — an interpretive translation, not the Hebrew text itself. Onkelos (literal) and Pseudo-Jonathan (expansive) render the Torah, and Jonathan the Prophets. Coverage is partial: where no permissively-licensed English translation exists for a verse, only the Aramaic is shown. This is verse-level text, not a word-by-word alignment to the Hebrew.
אִלֵין זַרְעֲיַת רְאוּבֵן וַהֲווֹ מִנְיָנֵיהוֹן אַרְבְּעִין וּתְלָתָא אַלְפִין וּשְׁבַע מְאָה וּתְּלָתִין
(no public-domain English translation for this verse)
Targum Onkelos — Aramaic: “Onkelos Genesis” (public domain); “Onkelos Exodus” (public domain); “Onkelos Leviticus” (public domain); “Onkelos Numbers” (public domain); “Onkelos Deuteronomy” (public domain). English: “Sefaria Community Translation” (CC0 1.0 (public-domain dedication)); “J.W. Etheridge. The Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan Ben Uzziel on the Pentateuch. London: Longmans, Green, 1862” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.
אִלֵין גְנִיסְתָּא דִרְאוּבֵן וַהֲווֹ סְכוּמֵיהוֹן אַרְבְּעִין וּתְלַת אַלְפִין וּשְׁבַע מְאָה וּתְלָתִין
These are the families of Reuben, and their numbers were forty-three thousand seven hundred and thirty.
Targum Pseudo-Jonathan — Aramaic: “Targum Jonathan on Genesis” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Exodus” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Leviticus” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Numbers” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Deuteronomy” (public domain). English: “The Targum of Jonathan ben Uzziel, trans. J. W. Etheridge, London, 1862” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.
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Numbers, in the Pentateuch, opens this verse with 11 words (11 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Rᵉʼûwbênîy (“Reubenite”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Commentary
Notes on Numbers 26:7 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.
Lemma curates 59 commentaries, every one of them public domain or Creative Commons licensed, each selected and text-cleaned for this edition rather than reprinted as found. About our sources →
Joseph Benson's Commentary
Joseph Benson's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1811–1818) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown — Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers
A Bible Commentary for English Readers, edited by Charles John Ellicott (1878–1897) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).
Matthew Poole's English Annotations
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible (1683–1685) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.
The Pulpit Commentary
The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
John Wesley's Explanatory Notes
John Wesley, Explanatory Notes Upon the Whole Bible (1754–1765) — public domain. Text via the GEBible commentary corpus.