4 Mosebok 1:26
Efterkommerne av Judas sønner, opskrevet efter sine ætter og familier, med sine navn, fra tyveårsalderen og opover, alle som kunde dra ut i krig,

) in their decreasing proportion, beginning with the greatest and proceeding to the least.

1st Census

2nd Census
1. Judah

74,600

76,500
2. Dan

62,700

64,400
3. Simeon

59,300

22,200
4. Zebulum

57,400

60,500
7. Reuben

46,500

43,730
8. Gad

45,650

40,500
9. Asher

41,500

53,400
10.Ephraim

40,500

32,500
11.Benjamin

35,400

45,600
12.Manasseh

32,200

52,700
Totals:

603,550

601,730

42,000. Jacob had given Judah the pre-eminence in his prophetic blessing; and that tribe was to have the precedence in the encampments of Israel; accordingly God had increased them more than any of their brethren. Ephraim and Manasseh, according to the same prophecy, were numbered as distinct tribes, Ephraim having the superiority, as it was foretold; and Joseph indeed appears 'a fruitful bough.'

4 Mosebok 2:10,11
Mot syd skal Ruben leire sig under sitt banner, hær for hær; og høvdingen for Rubens barn er Elisur, Sede'urs sønn, …

4 Mosebok 26:7
Dette var rubenittenes ætter, og de av dem som blev mønstret, var tre og firti tusen, syv hundre og tretti.