OLD TESTAMENT

Numbers 1:52

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52

The children of Israel shall pitch their tents, every man by his own camp, and every man by his own standard, according to their divisions.

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Verse 52. Army. Hebrew “they shall have their respective camp, and follow their own standards, with their army.” They were drawn up in four large bodies, Calmet. 2:2, and so forth Calmet.—The first contained 151,450, the second 186,400, the third 108,100, and the fourth 157,600, under Reuben, Juda, Ephraim, and Dan.

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