Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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

General references

Bible References

The tribe

Genesis 48:5
"Now, as for your two sons, who were born to you in the land of Egypt before I came to you in Egypt, they will be mine. Ephraim and Manasseh will be mine just as Reuben and Simeon are.
Deuteronomy 33:17
May the firstborn of his bull bring him honor, and may his horns be those of a wild ox; with them may he gore all peoples, all the far reaches of the earth. They are the ten thousands of Ephraim, and they are the thousands of Manasseh.

Were forty

Numbers 2:19
Those numbered in his division are 40,500.
Numbers 26:37
These were the families of the Ephraimites, according to those numbered of them, 32,500. These were the descendants of Joseph by their families.

General references

Numbers 2:19
Those numbered in his division are 40,500.
Numbers 26:37
These were the families of the Ephraimites, according to those numbered of them, 32,500. These were the descendants of Joseph by their families.

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