“Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Simeon, were fifty and nine thousand and three hundred.”
The registered men of the tribe of Simeon were fifty-nine thousand three hundred — Simeon's force (59,300) is unexpectedly larger than Reuben's, though by the second census in Numbers 26, Simeon will have declined dramatically (from 59,300 to 22,200), reflecting the historical reality of Simeon's absorption into Judah and loss of independent tribal identity.
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