Números 2:18

18 Para a banda do ocidente estará o estandarte do arraial de Efraim, segundo os seus exércitos; e Elisama, filho de Amiúde, será o príncipe dos filhos de Efraim.

Números 2:18 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 2:18

On the west side [shall be] the standard of the camp of
Ephraim, according to their armies
It was in the rear or behind, consisting of his tribe, and of the tribes of Manasseh and Benjamin, divided into several companies, and extended four miles, as the above Targum. The Jewish writers say ^F12, that Joseph's stone is the onyx or sardonyx, and his flag was coloured very black, and on it were figured for the two princes, Ephraim and Manasseh, Egypt, because they were born in Egypt; and upon the flag of Ephraim was figured an ox, because of what is said in ( Deuteronomy 33:17 ) ; and on the flag of the tribe of Manasseh was figured an unicorn, because of what is said in the same place. Benjamin's stone was the jasper, and his flag was coloured like to twelve colours, and on it was figured a wolf, because of what is said ( Genesis 49:27 ) ;

and the captain of the sons of Ephraim [shall be] Elishama the son of
Ammihud;
of whom see ( Numbers 1:10 ) ( 7:48 ) .

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FOOTNOTES:

F12 Bemidbar Rabba, ut supra. (sect. 2. fol. 178. 2.)

Números 2:18 In-Context

16 Todos os que foram contados do arraial de Rúben eram cento e cinqüenta e um mil quatrocentos e cinqüenta, segundo os seus exércitos. Esses marcharão em segundo lugar.

17 Então partirá a tenda da revelação com o arraial dos levitas no meio dos arraiais; como se acamparem, assim marcharão, cada um no seu lugar, segundo os seus estandartes.

18 Para a banda do ocidente estará o estandarte do arraial de Efraim, segundo os seus exércitos; e Elisama, filho de Amiúde, será o príncipe dos filhos de Efraim.

19 E o seu exército, os que foram contados deles, era de quarenta mil e quinhentos.

20 Junto a eles estará a tribo de Manassés; e Gamaliel, filho de Pedazur, será o príncipe dos filhos de Manassés.