The following comparative statement will show how much some of the tribes had increased, and other had diminished, since the enumeration in ch 1:

Now Before
1. Reuben

43,730

46,500
2. Simeon

22,200

59,300
3. Gad

40,500

45,650
4. Judah

76,500

74,600
7. Manasseh

52,700

32,200
8. Ephraim

32,500

40,500
9. Benjamin

45,600

35,400
10.Dan

64,400

62,700
11.Asher

53,400

41,500
12.Naphtali

45,400

53,400
Total

601,730

603,550

It should be observed, that among these there was not one of the former census, except Joshua and Caleb. Thus, though there was such an amazing increase in seven tribes, yet so great was the decrease in the other five tribes, that the balance against the present census is

1,820. Notwithstanding the amazing increase in some, and decrease in other tribes, the same sort of proportion is kept in their several divisions; so as to keep the division in the front the largest, and that in the rear the next.

Numbers 1:46 Even all they that were numbered were six hundred thousand and three thousand and five hundred and fifty.

Numbers 2:32 These are those which were numbered of the children of Israel by the house of their fathers...

Nehemiah 9:23 Their children also multiplied you as the stars of heaven, and brought them into the land...

Job 12:9,10,14,20-23 Who knows not in all these that the hand of the LORD has worked this...

Psalm 77:20 You led your people like a flock by the hand of Moses and Aaron.