Numbers 2:34

34 The Israelites did everything the Lord commanded Moses; they camped by their banners in this way and moved out the same way, each man by his clan and by his ancestral house.[a]

Numbers 2:34 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 2:34

And the children of Israel did according to all that the Lord
commanded Moses
Formed themselves into camps, so many tribes to a camp, and over each tribe or host appointed a captain, and erected a standard to each camp, by which they pitched as directed, which is next particularly observed:

so they pitched by their standards;
every tribe, and every person in the tribe, as they were ranked, pitched by the standard to which they belonged:

and so they set forward, after their families according to the house
of their fathers;
the camps, and the tribes in them the families in those tribes, and the houses or lesser families under them, when they marched, proceeded in this regular order, as they did on the twentieth of this month; see ( Numbers 10:11 Numbers 10:12 ) .

Numbers 2:34 In-Context

32 These are the Israelites registered by their ancestral houses. The total number in the camps by their military divisions is 603,550.
33 But the Levites were not registered among the Israelites, just as the Lord had commanded Moses.
34 The Israelites did everything the Lord commanded Moses; they camped by their banners in this way and moved out the same way, each man by his clan and by his ancestral house.

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