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Benjamin ..........35,400 (Abidan, "My Father is Judge.")
DAN....................62,700 (Ahiezer, "My Brother is Help.")
Asher .................41,500 (Pagiel, either "My Fate is God," or "My prayer-God.")
Naphtali ............53,400 (Ahira, "My Brother is Friend.") TOTAL 603,550
Second Census (Numbers 26)
REUBEN..............43,730
Simeon..............22,200
Gad.....................40,500
JUDAH 2 ...............76,500
Issachar .............64,300
Zebulon .............60,500
EPHRAIM.............32,500
Manasseh..........52,700
Benjamin ..........45,600
DAN....................64,400
Asher .................53,400
Naphtali ............45,400 TOTAL 601,730
A comparison of the foregoing figures will show, that, while some of the tribes
remarkably increased,others equally remarkably decreased, during the thirty-eight
years' wanderings. Thus, for example,Issachar increased nineteen per cent., Benjamin
and Asher twenty-nine per cent., and Manassehabout sixty-three per cent.; while
Reuben decreased six per cent., Gad twelve per cent., Naphtalififteen per cent., and
Simeon almost sixty-three per cent. Some interpreters have connected the
largedecrease in the latter tribe with the judgment following upon the service of Baal
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