Numbers 26:35
These are the sons of Ephraim after their families: of Shuthelah, the family of the Shuthalhites: of Becher, the family of the Bachrites: of Tahan, the family of the Tahanites.
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Gill's Exposition
Unto these the land shall be divided for an inheritance,.... That were numbered, and to none else:
according to the number of their names; and for this end was the number of them now taken, that the…
This is the register of the tribes as they were now enrolled, in the same order that they were numbered in ch. 1. Observe,
I. The account that is here kept of the families of each tribe, which must…
The twelve secular tribes are numbered, the sacred tribe of Levi being omitted. The names are based upon Gen 46:8-27, but with the addition of Ephraim and Manasseh, who, having been born in Egypt,…