Numbers 1:44-45

1:44 These were the men whom Moses and Aaron numbered ¹  along with the twelve leaders of Israel, each of whom ²  was from his own family. 1:45 All the Israelites who were twenty years old or older, who could serve in Israel’s army, were numbered ³  according to their families.

Numbers 2:9

2:9 All those numbered of the camp of Judah, according to their divisions, are 186,400. They will travel ⁴  at the front.

Numbers 26:37

26:37 These were the families of the Ephraimites, according to those numbered of them, 32,500. ⁵  These were the descendants of Joseph by their families.

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¹ tn The construction uses both the passive participle הַפְּקֻדִים (happÿqudim) and the verb פָּקַד (paqad), giving a literal translation of “these were the numbered ones, whom Moses and Aaron numbered.”

² tn Heb “they were one man for the house of his fathers.”

³ tn Literally the text has, “and all the numbered of the Israelites were according to their families.” The verb in the sentence is actually without a complement (see v. 46).

⁴ tn The verb is נָסָע (nasa’): “to journey, travel, set out,” and here, “to move camp.” Judah will go first, or, literally, at the head of the nation, when they begin to travel.

⁵ sn This is a significant reduction from the first count of 40,500.