Bamidbar 2:19

19 And his tz’va (host), and those that were numbered of them, were forty thousand and five hundred.

Bamidbar 2:19 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 2:19

And his host
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 ( Numbers 1:33 ) .

Bamidbar 2:19 In-Context

17 Then the Ohel Mo’ed shall set forward with the machaneh of the Levi’im in the midst of the machaneh; as they encamp, so shall they set forward, every man in his place by their degel.

18 On the west side shall be the degel of the machaneh of Ephrayim according to their tzvaos; and the Nasi of the Bnei Ephrayim shall be Elishama ben Ammihud.

19 And his tz’va (host), and those that were numbered of them, were forty thousand and five hundred.

20 And by him shall be the tribe of Menasheh; and the Nasi of the Bnei Menasheh shall be Gamli’el ben Pedahtzur.

21 And his tz’va (host), and those that were numbered of them, were thirty and two thousand and two hundred.