John Gill's Exposition on Numbers 1:52

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And the children of Israel shall pitch their tents, every man by his own camp, etc.] There were four, unless every tribe was a camp, and so then there were twelve camps, besides the camp of the Levites: the Targum of Jonathan is, “by the house of his troop,” the regiment to which he belonged, every tribe or camp having various troops or regiments in it: and every man by his own standard throughout their hosts; there were four standards, and three tribes to each standard, which were placed east, west, north, and south of the tabernacle, as is at large described in the following chapter.

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