🔢WEB · Numbers 2:31
What does Numbers 2:31 mean?
"“All who were counted of the camp of Dan were one hundred fifty-seven thousand six hundred. They shall set out last by their standards.”"
— Numbers 2:31 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
His division, and those who were counted of them, were forty-one thousand and five hundred.
“The tribe of Naphtali: and the prince of the children of Naphtali shall be Ahira the son of Enan.
His division, and those who were counted of them, were fifty-three thousand four hundred.
“All who were counted of the camp of Dan were one hundred fifty-seven thousand six hundred. They shall set out last by their standards.”
These are those who were counted of the children of Israel by their fathers’ houses. All who were counted of the camps according to their armies were six hundred three thousand five hundred fifty.
But the Levites were not counted among the children of Israel; as Yahweh commanded Moses.
Thus the children of Israel did. According to all that Yahweh commanded Moses, so they encamped by their standards, and so they set out, everyone by their families, according to their fathers’ houses.
Explanation
Numbers 2:31 concludes the description of Israel's camping and marching arrangement in the wilderness. In plain terms, the verse tells us how many fighting men were counted in the camp associated with the tribe of Dan—157,600—and specifies that this camp would be the last group to move whenever the whole nation set out on its journey. This is simply a
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