Numbers 2:17

“Then the tabernacle of the congregation shall set forward with the camp of the Levites, etc.] Which reached four miles, according to the Targum of Jonathan, as did Judah’s. Levi’s stone, as the Jews say f9, was the carbuncle, and his flag was coloured, a third part white, and a third part black, and a third part red, and on it were formed Urim and Thummim: in the midst of the camp; or “camps” f10; between the camps of Judah and Reuben, before mentioned, and those of Ephraim and Dan, which are after spoken of: the order in which they moved was this, as Aben Ezra observes; the Gershonites and Merarites marched between the standard of Judah and the standard of Reuben; and the Kohathites…”

“The following plan shows the general arrangement of the camp, which would vary in different places according to local exigencies. The area of the camp might be about three square miles: Numbers 2:14 Reuel - Doubtless an error of transcription for Deuel Numbers 1:14. return to 'Top of Page'”

“In the midst - This is not to be understood strictly, but largely; for in their march they were divided, and part of that tribe marched next after Judah, Num 10:17, and the other part exactly in the midst of the camp. Numbers 2:18”

“tabernacle: Num 2:1, Num 1:50-53, Num 3:38, Num 10:17, Num 10:21; Co1 14:40; Col 2:5 Numbers 2:18”