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Numbers 1:32 Explained in Context
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Verse 32. 32Of the children of Joseph, namely, of the children of Ephraim, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;
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Role in This Section
Numbers 1:32 within “The Twelve Tribal Totals Reach 603,550,” records the counted person, group, total, or qualification in this clause; in lightly modernized wording, the clause reads: Of the children of Joseph, namely, of the children of Ephraim, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war.
Read It With
- Numbers 1:20–46
Read Numbers 1:32 with 1:20–46. It within “The Twelve Tribal Totals Reach 603,550,” records the counted person, group, total, or qualification in this clause; in lightly modernized wording, the clause reads: Of the children of Joseph, namely, of the children of Ephraim, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war. The complete unit establishes this contextual meaning: The text reports each non-Levite tribe's military-age total and sums the first muster at 603,550, repeating one formula to present the whole army by ancestral house.
Why It Needs Context
Numbers 1:32 within “The Twelve Tribal Totals Reach 603,550,” records the counted person, group, total, or qualification in this clause; in lightly modernized wording, the clause reads: Of the children of Joseph, namely, of the children of Ephraim, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war. Its responsible force depends on 1:20–46; isolated from “The Twelve Tribal Totals Reach 603,550,” the verse's actor, action, reason, object, or transition could be mistaken for independent teaching.
Continue in Context
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Read Numbers 1:20–46 — The Twelve Tribal Totals Reach 603,550Sources used for this context pointer
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
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USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
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Exact location: Numbers 1:20–46, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Numbers
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project
Open Scriptures, release 2.2, 2021
Supports: Hebrew wording, morphology, names, numbers, speeches, poems, legal clauses, older-English controls, and translation limits.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v.2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Num.xml, Masoretic words and morphology for 1:20–46
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