Of the tribe of Joseph, namely, of the tribe of Manasseh, Gaddi the son of Susi.
Of the tribe of Joseph, namely, of the tribe of Manasseh, Gaddi the son of Susi.
For the tribe of Joseph, (for the tribe of Manasseh,) Gaddi son of Susi.
for the tribe of Joseph, for the tribe of Manasseh, Gaddi the son of Susi;
Numbers — Israel on the move — and Israel on the ground in rebellion. Two censuses bracket thirty-eight wilderness years; God's faithfulness holds where the people's does not.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread — the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
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Ummah, Aphek, and Rehob. There were twenty-two cities, along with their villages.
So that day Jacob blessed them and said: “By you shall Israel pronounce this blessing: ‘May God make you like Ephraim and Manasseh.’” So he put Ephraim before Manasseh.
