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John Gill's Exposition on Numbers 2:19

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John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And his host, etc.] That is, the host of Ephraim; and those that were numbered of them, [were] forty thousand and five hundred. 40,500 men. Not his camp, but his host, or the army, which consisted only of his own tribe (see <040133>Numbers 1:33).
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