Numbers 1:33

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“From the sons of Ephraim, according to the records of their clans and families, counting the names of all those twenty years of age or older who could serve in the army, those registered to the tribe of Ephraim numbered 40,500.”

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BSBPD

“From the sons of Ephraim, according to the records of their clans and families, counting the names of all those twenty years of age or older who could serve in the army, those registered to the tribe of Ephraim numbered 40,500.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

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

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“those that were numbered of them, of the tribe of Ephraim, were forty thousand and five hundred.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“their numbered ones, for the tribe of Ephraim, <FI>are<Fi> forty thousand and five hundred.”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Numbers 1:33 — 5 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Genesis 48:5And now your two sons born to you in Egypt before I came to you here shall be reckoned as mine; Ephraim and Manasseh shall be mine, just as Reuben and Simeon are mine.
  2. Genesis 48:19But his father refused. “I know, my son, I know!” he said. “He too shall become a people, and he too shall be great; nevertheless, his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his offspring shall become a multitude of nations.”
  3. Numbers 2:19The leader of the Ephraimites is Elishama son of Ammihud, and his division numbers 40,500.
  4. Numbers 26:37These were the clans of Ephraim, and their registration numbered 32,500. These clans were the descendants of Joseph.
  5. Deuteronomy 33:17His majesty is like a firstborn bull, and his horns are like those of a wild ox. With them he will gore the nations, even to the ends of the earth. Such are the myriads of Ephraim, and such are the thousands of Manasseh.”

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