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American Standard Version

Numbers 26:28

The sons of Joseph after their families: Manasseh and Ephraim.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Joseph;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Desert, Journey of Israel through the;   Tribes of Israel, the;  

Dictionaries:

- Holman Bible Dictionary - Gilead;   Hepher;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Genealogy;   Manasseh;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Government of the Hebrews;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - On to Canaan;   Moses, the Man of God;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Genealogy;   Manasseh (2);   Numbers, Book of;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
The sons of Yosef after their families: Menashsheh and Efrayim.
King James Version
The sons of Joseph after their families were Manasseh and Ephraim.
Lexham English Bible
The descendants of Joseph according to their clans: Manasseh and Ephraim.
English Standard Version
The sons of Joseph according to their clans: Manasseh and Ephraim.
New Century Version
These were the family groups of Joseph through Manasseh and Ephraim.
New English Translation
The descendants of Joseph by their families: Manasseh and Ephraim.
Amplified Bible
The sons of Joseph according to their families were Manasseh and Ephraim.
New American Standard Bible
The sons of Joseph by their families: Manasseh and Ephraim.
Geneva Bible (1587)
The sonnes of Ioseph, after their families were Manasseh and Ephraim.
Legacy Standard Bible
The sons of Joseph according to their families: Manasseh and Ephraim.
Contemporary English Version
There were 52,700 men from the tribe of Manasseh son of Joseph; they were from the clan of Machir, the clan of Gilead his son, and the clans of his six grandsons: Iezer, Helek, Asriel, Shechem, Shemida, and Hepher. Zelophehad son of Hepher had no sons, but he had five daughters: Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.
Complete Jewish Bible
The sons of Yosef, by their families, were M'nasheh and Efrayim.
Darby Translation
The sons of Joseph, after their families: Manasseh and Ephraim.
Easy-to-Read Version
Joseph's two sons were Manasseh and Ephraim. Each son became a tribe with its own family groups.
George Lamsa Translation
tithe sons of Joseph after their families were Manasseh and Ephraim:
Good News Translation
The tribes of Joseph, who was the father of two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim.
Christian Standard Bible®
Joseph’s descendants by their clans from Manasseh and Ephraim:
Literal Translation
And the sons of Joseph according to their families: Manasseh and Ephraim.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
The children of Ioseph in their kynreds were, Manasses & Ephraim.
Bible in Basic English
The sons of Joseph by their families: Manasseh and Ephraim.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
The chyldren of Ioseph throughout their kinredes, were Manasse and Ephraim.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
The sons of Joseph after their families: Manasseh and Ephraim.
King James Version (1611)
The sonnes of Ioseph after their families, were Manasseh and Ephraim.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
The sons of Aser according to their families; to Jamin, the family of the Jaminites; to Jesu, the family of the Jesusites; to Baria, the family of the Bariaites.
English Revised Version
The sons of Joseph after their families: Manasseh and Ephraim.
Berean Standard Bible
The descendants of Joseph included the clans of Manasseh and Ephraim.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
The sones of Joseph bi her kynredis weren Manasses and Effraym.
Young's Literal Translation
Sons of Joseph by their families [are] Manasseh and Ephraim.
Update Bible Version
The sons of Joseph after their families: Manasseh and Ephraim.
Webster's Bible Translation
The sons of Joseph after their families [were] Manasseh and Ephraim.
World English Bible
The sons of Joseph after their families: Manasseh and Ephraim.
New King James Version
The sons of Joseph according to their families, by Manasseh and Ephraim, were:
New Living Translation
Two clans were descended from Joseph through Manasseh and Ephraim.
New Life Bible
The sons of Joseph by their families were Manasseh and Ephraim.
New Revised Standard
The sons of Joseph by their clans: Manasseh and Ephraim.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
The sons of Joseph by their families, - Manasseh, and Ephraim.
Douay-Rheims Bible
The sons of Joseph by their kindred, Manasses and Ephraim.
Revised Standard Version
The sons of Joseph according to their families: Manas'seh and E'phraim.
THE MESSAGE
The sons of Joseph by clans through Manasseh and Ephraim. Through Manasseh: Makir and the Makirite clan (now Makir was the father of Gilead), Gilead and the Gileadite clan. The sons of Gilead: Iezer and the Iezerite clan, Helek and the Helekite clan, Asriel and the Asrielite clan, Shechem and the Shechemite clan, Shemida and the Shemidaite clan, Hepher and the Hepherite clan. Zelophehad son of Hepher had no sons, only daughters. Their names were Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah. These were the clans of Manasseh. They numbered 52,700.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
The sons of Joseph according to their families: Manasseh and Ephraim.

Contextual Overview

5 Reuben, the first-born of Israel; the sons of Reuben: of Hanoch, the family of the Hanochites; of Pallu, the family of the Palluites; 6 of Hezron, the family of the Hezronites; of Carmi, the family of the Carmites. 7 These are the families of the Reubenites; and they that were numbered of them were forty and three thousand and seven hundred and thirty. 8 And the sons of Pallu: Eliab. 9 And the sons of Eliab: Nemuel, and Dathan, and Abiram. These are that Dathan and Abiram, who were called of the congregation, who strove against Moses and against Aaron in the company of Korah, when they strove against Jehovah, 10 and the earth opened its mouth, and swallowed them up together with Korah, when that company died; what time the fire devoured two hundred and fifty men, and they became a sign. 11 Notwithstanding, the sons of Korah died not. 12 The sons of Simeon after their families: of Nemuel, the family of the Nemuelites; of Jamin, the family of the Jaminites; of Jachin, the family of the Jachinites; 13 of Zerah, the family of the Zerahites; of Shaul, the family of the Shaulites. 14 These are the families of the Simeonites, twenty and two thousand and two hundred.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Genesis 41:51, Genesis 41:52, Genesis 46:20, Genesis 48:5, Genesis 48:13-20

Reciprocal: Genesis 48:16 - a multitude

Cross-References

Genesis 24:3
and I will make thee swear by Jehovah, the God of heaven and the God of the earth, that thou wilt not take a wife for my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell:
Genesis 24:41
then shalt thou be clear from my oath, when thou comest to my kindred; and if they give her not to thee, thou shalt be clear from my oath.
Genesis 26:22
And he removed from thence, and digged another well; and for that they strove not: and he called the name of it Rehoboth; and he said, For now Jehovah hath made room for us, and we shall be fruitful in the land.
Genesis 26:23
And he went up from thence to Beer-sheba.
Genesis 26:31
And they rose up betimes in the morning, and sware one to another: and Isaac sent them away, and they departed from him in peace.
Genesis 26:32
And it came to pass the same day, that Isaac's servants came, and told him concerning the well which they had digged, and said unto him, We have found water.
Genesis 39:5
And it came to pass from the time that he made him overseer in his house, and over all that he had, that Jehovah blessed the Egyptian's house for Joseph's sake; and the blessing of Jehovah was upon all that he had, in the house and in the field.
Joshua 3:7
And Jehovah said unto Joshua, This day will I begin to magnify thee in the sight of all Israel, that they may know that, as I was with Moses, so I will be with thee.
2 Chronicles 1:1
And Solomon the son of David was strengthened in his kingdom, and Jehovah his God was with him, and magnified him exceedingly.
Isaiah 45:14
Thus saith Jehovah, The labor of Egypt, and the merchandise of Ethiopia, and the Sabeans, men of stature, shall come over unto thee, and they shall be thine: they shall go after thee, in chains they shall come over; and they shall fall down unto thee, they shall make supplication unto thee, saying, Surely God is in thee; and there is none else, there is no God.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Ver. 28-34. The sons of Joseph, after their families, were Manasseh and Ephraim. Manasseh is here mentioned first, though Ephraim was preferred to him by Jacob, and the standard belonged to him; not because he was the firstborn, but because he had now the greater increase, though he had but one son, Machir, of whom was the family of the Machirites, and a grandson, whose name was Gilead, from whom was the family of the Gileadites, and who had six sons; of whom were the families of the Jeezerite, Halekite, Asrielite, Shechemite, Shemidaite, and Hepherite. Hepher, of whom was the last, had a son named Zelophehad, but he had no son, only five daughters, whose names are given; the number of men in this tribe, of twenty years old and upwards, fit for war, was 52,700, so that the increase was 20,500, a large increase indeed!


 
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