Discovery BoxNumbers 1:6 
Context1:6 from Simeon, Shelumiel son of Zurishaddai; 1
Numbers 1:22-23
Context1:22 From the descendants of Simeon: According to the records of their clans and families, all the males numbered of them 2 twenty years old or older who could serve in the army were listed by name individually. 1:23 Those of them who were numbered from the tribe of Simeon were 59,300.
1 sn This name and the name Ammishaddai below have the theophoric element (שַׁדַּי, shadday, “the Almighty”). It would mean “the Almighty is my rock”; the later name means “the Almighty is my kinsman.” Other theophoric elements in the passage are “father,” “brother,” and “God.”
2 tc Some witnesses have omitted “those that were numbered of them,” to preserve the literary pattern of the text. The omission is supported by the absence of the expression in the Greek as well as in some MT
