Numbers 1:33

Forty thousand, five hundred of the tribe of Ephraim were numbered.

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Ephraim, were forty thousand and five hundred.

In Context

32The generations of the sons of Joseph were numbered by their families and their fathers' houses, every male of twenty years old and over who was able to go to war;

34The generations of the sons of Manasseh were numbered by their families and their fathers' houses, every male of twenty years old and over who was able to go to war;

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Cross References

Genesis 48:5And now your two sons who came to birth in Egypt before I came to you here, are mine; Ephraim and Manasseh will be mine, in the same way as Reuben and Simeon are.

Numbers 2:19The number of his army was forty thousand, five hundred.

Deuteronomy 33:17He is a young ox, glory is his; his horns are the horns of the mountain ox, with which all peoples will be wounded, even to the ends of the earth: they are the ten thousands of Ephraim and the thousands of Manasseh.

Matthew Henry on Numbers 1:18-44

17 And Moses and Aaron took these men which are expressed by their names: 18 And they assembled all the congregation together on the first day of the second month, and they declared their pedigrees after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, by their polls. 19 As the Lord commanded Moses, so he numbered them in the wilderness of Sinai. 20 And the children of Reuben, Israel's eldest son, by their generations, after their families, by… Read the whole commentary →

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