“And those that encamp by him shall be the tribe of Asher: and the captain of the children of Asher shall be Pagiel the son of Ocran.”
All those registered in the camp of Ephraim were one hundred eight thousand one hundred — the western subtotal confirms the precise enumeration and establishes the western division as significantly smaller than the eastern (186,400) or southern (151,450) divisions. The numerical disparity illustrates the unequal distribution of fighting strength across Israel's territories.
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