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:

19 And his host and the number of them were forty thousand and five hundred.

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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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