Numbers 2:19

The leader of the Ephraimites is Elishama son of Ammihud, and his division numbers 40,500.

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KJV

And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were forty thousand and five hundred.

ASV

And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were forty thousand and five hundred.

YLT

and his host, and their numbered ones, are forty thousand and five hundred.

DBT

and his host, even those that were numbered of them, forty thousand five hundred.

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And his host,.... That is, the host of Ephraim: and those that were numbered of them, were forty thousand and five hundred. 40,500 men. Not his camp, but his host, or the army, which consisted only of his own tribe see Num 1:33.

John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)reformed

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The tabernacle or sacred tent of their Divine King, with the camp of the Levites around it (see on Nu 3:38), formed the center, as does the chief's in the encampment of all nomad people. In marching, this order was adhered to, with some necessary variations. Judah led the way, followed, it is most probable, by Issachar and Zebulun [Nu 10:14-16].

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

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Numbers 26:37
These were the clans of Ephraim, and their registration numbered 32,500. These clans were the descendants of Joseph.
Numbers 1:33
From the sons of Ephraim, according to the records of their clans and families, counting the names of all those twenty years of age or older who could serve in the army, those registered to the tribe of Ephraim numbered 40,500.
Genesis 48:19
But his father refused. “I know, my son, I know!” he said. “He too shall become a people, and he too shall be great; nevertheless, his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his offspring shall become a multitude of nations.”

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About this book

The Bronze Serpent — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain

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.

Canon: Old Testament
Author: Moses — the wilderness narrator; ‘Moses wrote their goings out according to their journeys’ (33:2)
Date: The wilderness years, c. 15th–13th century BC

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Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first — the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Numbers 1:33
From the sons of Ephraim, according to the records of their clans and families, counting the names of all those twenty years of age or older who could serve in the army, those registered…
leads to
- Numbers 26:37
  These were the clans of Ephraim, and their registration numbered 32,500. These clans were the descendants of Joseph.
- Deuteronomy 33:17
  His majesty is like a firstborn bull, and his horns are like those of a wild ox. With them he will gore the nations, even to the ends of the earth. Such are the…
- Genesis 48:5
  And now your two sons born to you in Egypt before I came to you here shall be reckoned as mine; Ephraim and Manasseh shall be mine, just as Reuben and Simeon are mine.
Through
Numbers 26:37
These were the clans of Ephraim, and their registration numbered 32,500. These clans were the descendants of Joseph.
leads to
- Numbers 1:32–33
  From the sons of Joseph:
- Numbers 2:18–19
  On the west side, the divisions of Ephraim are to camp under their standard:

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