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NUMBERS 1—THE LAST TRIBES NUMBERED

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31 Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Zebulun, were fifty and seven thousand and four hundred.

32 [ 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;

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

34 [ Of the children of Manasseh, 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;

35 Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Manasseh, were thirty and two thousand and two hundred.

36 s.Of the children of Benjamin, 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, als that were able to go forth to war;

37 Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Benjamin, were thirty and five thousand and four hundred.

38 Of the children of Dan, 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;

39 Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Dan, were threescore and two thousand and seven hundred.

40 f Of the children of Asher, 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;

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

42 f Of the children of Naphtali, throughout 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;

43 Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Naphtali, were fifty and three thousand and four hundred.

44 These are those that were numbered, which Moses and Aaron numbered, and the princes of Israel, being twelve men: each one was for the house of his fathers.

45 So were all those that were numbered of the children of Israel, by the house of their fathers, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war in Israel;

46 Even all they that were numbered were six hundred thousand and three thousand and five hundred and fifty.

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NUMBERS 1-THE APPOINTMENT OF THE LEVITES

47 | But the Levites after the tribe of their fathers were not numbered among them.

48 For the Lord had spoken unto Moses, saying,

49 Only thou shalt not number the tribe of Levi, neither take the sum of them among the children of Israel:

50 But thou shalt appoint the Lèvites over the tabernacle of testimony, and over all the vessels thereof, and over all things that belong to it: they shall bear the tabernacle, and all the vessels thereof; and they shalt minister unto it, and shall encamp round about the tabernacle.

•51 And when the tabernacle setteth forward, the Levites shall take it down: and when the tabernacle is to be pitched, the Levites shall set it up; and the stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death.

52 And the children of Israel shall pitch their tents, every man by his own camp, and every man by his own standard, throughout their hosts.

53 But the Levites shall pitch round about the tabernacle of testimony, that there be no wrath upon the congregation of the children of Israel: and the Levites shall keep the charge of the tabernacle of testimony:

54 And the children of Israel did according to all that the LORD commanded Moses, so did they.

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Chapter 2 1 The order of the tribes in their tents.

ND the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,

2 Every man of the children of Israel shall pitch by his

own standard, with the ensign of their father's house: far off about the tabernacle of the congregation shall they pitch.

3 And on the east side toward the rising of the sun shall they of the standard of the camp of Judah pitch throughout their armies: and Nahshon the son of Amminadab shall be captain of the children of Judah.

4 And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were threescore and fourteen thousand and six hundred.

5 And those that do pitch next unto him shall be the tribe of Issachar: and Nethaneel the son of Zuar shall be captain of the children of Issachar.

6 And his host, and those that were numbered thereof, were fifty and four thousand and four hundred.

7 Then the tribe of Zebulun: and Eliab the son of Helon shall be captain of the children of Zebulun.

8 And his host, and those that were numbered thereof, were fifty

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FROM A QUAINT OLD ENGLISH PRINT OF THE

EIGHTEENTH CENTURY, BY G. FREMAN.

"And the frogs came up, and covered the land of Egypt."-Ex., 3, 6. VHE first plague, the “plague of blood,” was

sent apparently as a warning. Its purpose

was to fill the Egyptians with horror. No man was hurt by it; and upon Pharaoh himself it had small effect; for he asked his magicians about it, and they also proved able to turn water into blood. They did this, however, only in small quantities, and on no such awful and majestic scale as God had done, where the great flow of the Nile, one of earth's hugest rivers, was all of blood.

The first plague had been startling; the second was persistently and personally annoying. Moses first warned Pharaoh of the thing that he would do, and then at God's command stretched his rod over the river. Out from the water there came at once innumerable frogs. They covered the land; they spread everywhere, into every house and every chamber. Pharaoh himself must have trod upon them in his palace halls, and faced them on his feasting table. Doubtless thousands upon thousands of the pests were killed, but there came thousands more.

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