Numbers 2:3

And on the east side toward the rising of the sun shall they of the degel (standard, banner) of the machaneh of Yehudah encamp by their tzvaos: and Nachshon ben Amminadav shall be Nasi of the Bnei Yehudah. + 2:3 Gn 49:10

Orthodox Jewish Bible

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

2The Bnei Yisroel shall encamp, each man under his own degel (standard, banner), with the otot (ensigns) of the bais of their avot; some distance from it, around the Ohel Mo'ed must they encamp. + 2:2 See Josh 3:4

4And his tz'va (host), and those that were numbered of them, were threescore and fourteen thousand and six hundred.

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Cross References

Genesis 35:23The Bnei Leah: Reuven bechor Ya'akov, and Shim'on, and Levi, and Yehudah, and Yissakhar, and Zevulun;

Numbers 1:5And these are the shemot haanashim that shall stand with you: of the tribe of Reuven, Elitzur ben Shede'ur;

Numbers 7:12And he that offered his korban the first day was Nachshon Ben Amminadav, of the tribe of Yehudah;

Numbers 10:5When ye sound a teruah, then the machanot that camp on the east shall go forward.

Numbers 26:19The Bnei Yehudah were Er and Onan; and Er and Onan died in Eretz Kena'an.

Ruth 4:20And Amminadav fathered Nachshon, and Nachshon fathered 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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