“All that were numbered of the camp of Ephraim were an hundred thousand and eight thousand and an hundred, throughout their armies. And they shall go forward in the third rank.”
And his army, and his registered men, were thirty-two thousand two hundred — Manasseh's smaller force (32,200) compared to Ephraim's reflects the reversal of birth order and patriarchal blessing. Genesis 48:19's promise that Ephraim will be greater than Manasseh is validated numerically in the camp arrangement.
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