OLD TESTAMENT

Numbers 2:9

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“All who were counted of the camp of Judah were one hundred eighty-six thousand four hundred, according to their divisions. They shall set out first.

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Verse 9. First. The gate of the tabernacle looked towards the east. Bible.—Juda marched therefore in the first ranks. Then followed Ruben, the Levites, with the camp of the Lord. Calmet.—(Yet see Calmet. 10:17. Bible.)—Afterwards came Ephraim; and last of all, Gad, verse 16. 17. 24. 31. But in the camp, Juda, Issachar and Zabulon, Moses and Aaron, dwelt on the eastern side of the tabernacle; Ruben, Simeon and Gad, with the Caathites, to the west; and Dan, Aser and Nephtali, with the Merarites, on the north. Calmet.

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