Numbers 2:24Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers

Douay-RheimsHebrew (Masoretic text)

All that were numbered in the camp of Ephraim, were a hundred and eight-thousand one hundred by their troops: they shall march in the third place.
Douay-Rheims

כָּֽל־הַפְּקֻדִ֞ים לְמַחֲנֵ֣ה אֶפְרַ֗יִם מְאַ֥ת אֶ֛לֶף וּשְׁמֹֽנַת־אֲלָפִ֥ים וּמֵאָ֖ה לְצִבְאֹתָ֑ם וּשְׁלִשִׁ֖ים יִסָּֽעוּ׃
Hebrew (Masoretic text)

The Church Fathers on this verse

One Church Father comments on this verse

Ephraem the Syrian

4th centuryChurch Father

The divisions of Ephraim, Manasseh, and Benjamin were positioned to the west of the Tabernacle, and within their encampments were 'a hundred thousand and a hundred; they were organized (as noted by St. Ephraim - stationed) the third...'.

Cross references

Passages read together with this verse.

Num 10:22The sons of Ephraim also moved their camp by their troops, in whose army the prince was Elisama the son of Ammiud.
Ps 80 (79):2
Num 2:9All that were numbered in the camp of Juda, were a hundred and eighty-six thousand four hundred: and they by their troops shall march first.
Num 2:31All that were numbered in the camp of Dan, were a hundred and fifty-seven thousand six hundred: and they shall march last.
Num 2:16All that were reckoned up in the camp of Ruben, were a hundred and fifty-one thousand four hundred and fifty, by their troops: they shall march in the second place.