NUMBERS very clearly records the numbers:
1) 43,730 from the tribe of Reuben
2) 22,200 from the tribe of Simeon
3) 40,500 from the tribe of Gad
4) 76,500 from the tribe of Judah
5) 64,300 from the tribe of Issachar
6) 60,500 from the tribe of Zebulun
7) 52,700 from the tribe of Manasseh
8) 32,500 from the tribe of Ephraim
9) 45,600 from the tribe of Benjamin
10) 64,400 from the tribe of Dan
11) 53,400 from the tribe of Asher
12) 45,400 from the tribe of Naphtali
For a TOTAL OF 601, 730
As to how many other men, women, and children went along here...it is guesswork. 2 MILLION to 6 MILLION is the range we find in various hermeneutics. Obviously, this is another of myriad impossible events listed in these tribal tales. No rational person debates the inerrancy claim in the bible. Not a single thing in the bible comports with the claim of either inerrancy or Divinity. But of course you knew that! :-) |
