Numbers 26:5-9

5-9. Reuben, the eldest son By Leah. Genesis 29:32. The enumeration of the grandsons of Jacob in this chapter is important, since these are the basis of the tribal divisions, just as the tribes sprang from his sons. Hanoch, dedicated, is, in Hebrew, the same as Enoch, a name belonging to two other persons. There is no good reason for this twofold orthography. Nothing more is known of this Enoch. Pallu, eminent, spelled Phallu in Genesis 46:9, is identified by Josephus with Peleth in Numbers 16:1. See note. Of Hezron and Carmi nothing is known.

The families of the Reubenites tally with Genesis 46:9; Exodus 6:14, and 1 Chronicles 5:3. In Numbers 26:8 the word “sons” occurs where only one is mentioned, because the writer had in mind the grandsons named in Numbers 26:9.

Nemuel Day of God The record is interrupted expressly to admit a statement respecting his younger brothers,

Dathan and Abiram See Numbers 16:1-33, notes.