Numbers 2:3

Now those that pitch on the east side toward the sunrising shall be they of the standard of the camp of Judah, according to their hosts; the prince of the children of Judah being Nahshon the son of Amminadab,

JPS TaNaKH 1917

In The King James Version

And on the east side toward the rising of the sun shall they of the standard of the camp of Judah pitch throughout their armies: and Nahshon the son of Amminadab shall be captain of the children of Judah.

In Context

2'The children of Israel shall pitch by their fathers' houses; every man with his own standard, according to the ensigns; a good way off shall they pitch round about the tent of meeting.

4and his host, and those that were numbered of them, threescore and fourteen thousand and six hundred;

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Cross References

Genesis 35:23the sons of Leah: Reuben, Jacob's first-born, and Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Zebulun;

Numbers 1:5And these are the names of the men that shall stand with you: of Reuben, Elizur the son of Shedeur.

Numbers 7:12And he that presented his offering the first day was Nahshon the son of Amminadab, of the tribe of Judah;

Numbers 10:5And when ye blow an alarm, the camps that lie on the east side shall take their journey.

Numbers 26:19The sons of Judah: Er and Onan; and Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan.

Ruth 4:20and Amminadab begot Nahshon, and Nahshon begot Salmon;

Matthew Henry on Numbers 2:2-3

The Stations of the Several Tribes. ( b. c. 1490.) 1 And the Lord spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying, 2 Every man of the children of Israel shall pitch by his own standard, with the ensign of their father's house: far off about the tabernacle of the congregation shall they pitch. Here is the general appointment given both for their orderly encampment where they rested and their orderly march when they moved. Some order, it is possible, they had observed hitherto; they came out of Egypt in rank and file (… Read the whole commentary →

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