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Numbers 26:43 Explained in Context
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Verse 43. 43All the families of the Shuhamites, according to those that were numbered of them, were threescore and four thousand and four hundred.
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Role in This Section
Numbers 26:43 within “The Second Tribal Census Totals 601,730,” locates this figure inside the unit's stated census purpose; in lightly modernized wording, the clause reads: All the families of the Shuhamites, according to those that were numbered of them, were threescore and four thousand and four hundred.
Read It With
- Numbers 26:5–51
Read Numbers 26:43 with 26:5–51. It within “The Second Tribal Census Totals 601,730,” locates this figure inside the unit's stated census purpose; in lightly modernized wording, the clause reads: All the families of the Shuhamites, according to those that were numbered of them, were threescore and four thousand and four hundred. The complete unit establishes this contextual meaning: The text lists clans and totals from Reuben through Naphtali, includes brief death and rebellion notices, names Zelophehad's five daughters, and reports 601,730 men for the land-entering generation.
Why It Needs Context
Numbers 26:43 within “The Second Tribal Census Totals 601,730,” locates this figure inside the unit's stated census purpose; in lightly modernized wording, the clause reads: All the families of the Shuhamites, according to those that were numbered of them, were threescore and four thousand and four hundred. Its responsible force depends on 26:5–51; isolated from “The Second Tribal Census Totals 601,730,” the verse's actor, action, reason, object, or transition could be mistaken for independent teaching.
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Read Numbers 26:5–51 — The Second Tribal Census Totals 601,730Sources used for this context pointer
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
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USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact reader-facing KJV wording, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete verse coverage for this thought unit.
Exact location: Numbers 26:5–51, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Numbers
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project
Open Scriptures, release 2.2, 2021
Supports: Hebrew wording, morphology, names, numbers, speeches, poems, legal clauses, older-English controls, and translation limits.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v.2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Num.xml, Masoretic words and morphology for 26:5–51
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