🔢WEB · Numbers 26:44
What does Numbers 26:44 mean?
"The sons of Asher after their families: of Imnah, the family of the Imnites; of Ishvi, the family of the Ishvites; of Beriah, the family of the Berites."
— Numbers 26:44 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
These are the sons of Benjamin after their families; and those who were counted of them were forty-five thousand six hundred.
These are the sons of Dan after their families: of Shuham, the family of the Shuhamites. These are the families of Dan after their families.
All the families of the Shuhamites, according to those who were counted of them, were sixty-four thousand four hundred.
The sons of Asher after their families: of Imnah, the family of the Imnites; of Ishvi, the family of the Ishvites; of Beriah, the family of the Berites.
Of the sons of Beriah: of Heber, the family of the Heberites; of Malchiel, the family of the Malchielites.
The name of the daughter of Asher was Serah.
These are the families of the sons of Asher according to those who were counted of them, fifty-three thousand and four hundred.
Explanation
Numbers 26:44 comes from a section of Scripture that can seem dry at first glance—a list of family names within the tribe of Asher—but it carries real historical and theological weight. In plain language, the verse simply states that the tribe of Asher, one of the twelve tribes of Israel descended from Jacob
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