16 All the number of the camp of Reuben were an hundred and one and fifty thousand, and four hundred and fifty according to their armies, and they shall set forth in the second place.

17 ¶ Then the Tabernacle of the Congregation shall go with the host of the Levites, in the [a]midst of the camp as they have pitched, so shall they go forward, every man in his order, according to their standards.

18 [b]The standard of the camp of Ephraim shall be toward the West according to their armies: and the captain over the sons of Ephraim shall be Elishama the son of Ammihud:

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 2:17 Because it might be in equal distance from each one, and all indifferently have recourse thereunto.
  2. Numbers 2:18 Because Ephraim and Manasseh supplied the place of Joseph their father, they are taken to be Rachel’s children, so they and Benjamin make the third standard.

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