🔢WEB · Numbers 1:24
What does Numbers 1:24 mean?
"Of the children of Gad, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war;"
— Numbers 1:24 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
those who were counted of them, of the tribe of Reuben, were forty-six thousand five hundred.
Of the children of Simeon, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, those who were counted of it, according to the number of the names, one by one, every male from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war;
those who were counted of them, of the tribe of Simeon, were fifty-nine thousand three hundred.
Of the children of Gad, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war;
those who were counted of them, of the tribe of Gad, were forty-five thousand six hundred fifty.
Of the children of Judah, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war;
those who were counted of them, of the tribe of Judah, were seventy-four thousand six hundred.
Explanation
Numbers 1:24 describes the method used to count the tribe of Gad as part of a broader census of Israel. In plain language, the verse says that the men of Gad were registered according to their family lines and clan structures, that each man was counted individually by name, and that only those tw
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