“Of the children of Simeon, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, those that were numbered of them, according to the number of the names, by their polls, every male from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;”
From the children of Simeon, their generations, by their clans, by their fathers' houses — the parallel language for Simeon's enumeration emphasizes the uniformity of the census procedure, yet the subsequent numbers will reveal significant variation in tribal size and strength. Simeon's count will be smaller than Reuben's, indicating a tribe in decline even at this moment in Israel's history.
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