Numbers 26:38
The sons of Benjamin after their families: of Bela, the family of the Belaites: of Ashbel, the family of the Ashbelites: of Ahiram, the family of the Ahiramites:
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Gill's Exposition
To many thou shalt give the more inheritance, and to few thou shalt give the less inheritance,.... To a tribe more numerous, and consisting of more and larger families, a greater part of the land was…
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,…
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