Numbers 1:44

1:44 These were the men whom Moses and Aaron numbered ¹  along with the twelve leaders of Israel, each of whom ²  was from his own family.

Numbers 2:2

2:2 “Every one ³  of the Israelites must camp ⁴  under his standard with the emblems of his family; ⁵  they must camp at some distance ⁶  around the tent of meeting. ⁷ 

Numbers 2:10

The Tribes on the South

2:10 “On the south will be the divisions of the camp of Reuben under their standard. ⁸  The leader of the people of Reuben is Elizur son of Shedeur.

Numbers 2:18

The Tribes on the West

2:18 “On the west will be the divisions of the camp of Ephraim under their standard. The leader of the people of Ephraim is Elishama son of Amihud.

Numbers 2:24-25

2:24 All those numbered of the camp of Ephraim, according to their divisions, are 108,100. They will travel third.

The Tribes on the North

2:25 “On the north will be the divisions of the camp of Dan, under their standards. The leader of the people of Dan is Ahiezer son of Ammishaddai.

Numbers 2:31

2:31 All those numbered of the camp of Dan are 157,600. They will travel last, under their standards.”

Numbers 10:6

10:6 And when you blow an alarm the second time, then the camps that are located on the south side must begin to travel. ⁹  An alarm must be sounded ¹⁰  for their journeys.

Numbers 10:14

10:14 The standard ¹¹  of the camp of the Judahites set out first according to their companies, and over his company was Nahshon son of Amminadab.

Numbers 10:22

10:22 And the standard of the camp of the Ephraimites set out according to their companies; over his company was Elishama son of Ammihud.

Numbers 18:21

18:21 See, I have given the Levites all the tithes in Israel for an inheritance, for their service which they perform – the service of the tent of meeting.

Numbers 25:14

25:14 Now the name of the Israelite who was stabbed – the one who was stabbed with the Midianite woman – was Zimri son of Salu, a leader of a clan ¹²  of the Simeonites.

Numbers 31:26

31:26 “You and Eleazar the priest, and all the family leaders of the community, take the sum ¹³  of the plunder that was captured, both people and animals.

[1:44]  ¹ tn The construction uses both the passive participle הַפְּקֻדִים (happÿqudim) and the verb פָּקַד (paqad), giving a literal translation of “these were the numbered ones, whom Moses and Aaron numbered.”

[1:44]  ² tn Heb “they were one man for the house of his fathers.”

[2:2]  ³ tn Heb “a man by his own standard.”

[2:2]  ⁴ tn The imperfect tense is to be taken in the nuance of instruction.

[2:2]  ⁵ tn Heb “of/for the house of their fathers.”

[2:2]  ⁶ tn The Hebrew expression מִנֶּגֶד (minneged) means “from before” or “opposite; facing” and “at some distance” or “away from the front of” (see BDB 617 s.v. נֶגֶד 2.c.a; DCH 5:603-4 s.v. 3.b).

[2:2]  ⁷ sn The Israelites were camping as a military camp, each tribe with the standards and emblems of the family. The standard was the symbol fastened to the end of a pole and carried to battle. It served to rally the tribe to the battle. The Bible nowhere describes these, although the serpent emblem of Numbers 21:8-9 may give a clue. But they probably did not have shapes of animals in view of the prohibition in the Decalogue. The standards may have been smaller for the families than the ones for the tribes. See further K. A. Kitchen, “Some Egyptian Background to the Old Testament,” TynBul 5 (1960): 11; and T. W. Mann, Divine Presence and Guidance in Israelite Tradition, 169-73.

[2:10]  ⁵ tn Here and throughout the line is literally “[under] the standard of the camp of Reuben…according to their divisions.”

[10:6]  ⁷ tc The MT does not mention the departures of the northerly and westerly tribes. The Greek text completes the description by adding them, making a full schedule of the departure of the groups of tribes. The Greek is not likely to be original, however, since it carries all the signs of addition to complete the text, making a smooth, full reading. The MT is to be preferred; it apparently used two of the groups to give the idea.

[10:6]  ⁸ tn The Hebrew text has “they shall blow an alarm”; the sentence without a formal subject should be taken as a passive idea.

[10:14]  ⁹ sn The “standard” (דֶּגֶל, degel) was apparently some kind of a symbol put up on a pole to signify the tribal hosts. R. de Vaux thought it simply referred to a pole or a mast, but that would not distinguish tribes (Ancient Israel, 226-27).

[25:14]  ¹¹ tn Heb “a father’s house.” So also in v. 15.

[31:26]  ¹³ tn The idiom here is “take up the head,” meaning take a census, or count the totals.