Numbers 26:37
New International Version
These were the clans of Ephraim; those numbered were 32,500. These were the descendants of Joseph by their clans.

New Living Translation
These were the clans of Ephraim. Their registered troops numbered 32,500. These clans of Manasseh and Ephraim were all descendants of Joseph.

English Standard Version
These are the clans of the sons of Ephraim as they were listed, 32,500. These are the sons of Joseph according to their clans.

Berean Standard Bible
These were the clans of Ephraim, and their registration numbered 32,500. These clans were the descendants of Joseph.

King James Bible
These are the families of the sons of Ephraim according to those that were numbered of them, thirty and two thousand and five hundred. These are the sons of Joseph after their families.

New King James Version
These are the families of the sons of Ephraim according to those who were numbered of them: thirty-two thousand five hundred. These are the sons of Joseph according to their families.

New American Standard Bible
These are the families of the sons of Ephraim by those who were numbered of them, 32,500. These are the sons of Joseph by their families.

NASB 1995
These are the families of the sons of Ephraim according to those who were numbered of them, 32,500. These are the sons of Joseph according to their families.

NASB 1977
These are the families of the sons of Ephraim according to those who were numbered of them, 32,500. These are the sons of Joseph according to their families.

Legacy Standard Bible
These are the families of the sons of Ephraim according to those who were numbered of them, 32,500. These are the sons of Joseph according to their families.

Amplified Bible
These are the families (clans) of the sons of Ephraim according to those who were numbered, 32,500. These are the descendants of Joseph according to their families (clans).

Christian Standard Bible
These were the Ephraimite clans numbered by their registered men: 32,500. These were Joseph’s descendants by their clans.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
These were the Ephraimite clans numbered by their registered men: 32,500. These were Joseph’s descendants by their clans.

American Standard Version
These are the families of the sons of Ephraim according to those that were numbered of them, thirty and two thousand and five hundred. These are the sons of Joseph after their families.

English Revised Version
These are the families of the sons of Ephraim according to those that were numbered of them, thirty and two thousand and five hundred. These are the sons of Joseph after their families.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
These were the families of Ephraim's descendants. The total number of men was 32,500. These were the families descended from Joseph.

Good News Translation
These clans numbered 32,500 men. These are the clans descended from Joseph.

International Standard Version
These families of Ephraim numbered 32,500. These were the descendants of Joseph, listed according to their families.

Majority Standard Bible
These were the clans of Ephraim, and their registration numbered 32,500. These clans were the descendants of Joseph.

NET Bible
These were the families of the Ephraimites, according to those numbered of them, 32,500. These were the descendants of Joseph by their families.

New Heart English Bible
These are the families of the descendants of Ephraim according to those who were numbered of them, thirty-two thousand five hundred. These are the descendants of Joseph after their families.

Webster's Bible Translation
These are the families of the sons of Ephraim according to those that were numbered of them, thirty and two thousand and five hundred. These are the sons of Joseph after their families.

World English Bible
These are the families of the sons of Ephraim according to those who were counted of them, thirty-two thousand five hundred. These are the sons of Joseph after their families.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
These [are] families of the sons of Ephraim by their numbered ones—thirty-two thousand and five hundred. These [are] sons of Joseph by their families.

Young's Literal Translation
These are families of the sons of Ephraim, by their numbered ones, two and thirty thousand and five hundred. These are sons of Joseph by their families.

Smith's Literal Translation
These the families of the sons of Ephraim, according to their reviewing, two and thirty thousand and five hundred. These the sons of Joseph according to their families.
Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
These are the kindreds of the sons of Ephraim: whose number was thirty-two thousand five hundred.

Catholic Public Domain Version
These are the kinships of the sons of Ephraim, whose number was thirty-two thousand five hundred.

New American Bible
These were the clans of the Ephraimites, of whom there were enrolled thirty-two thousand five hundred. These were the descendants of Joseph by their clans.

New Revised Standard Version
These are the clans of the Ephraimites: the number of those enrolled was thirty-two thousand five hundred. These are the descendants of Joseph by their clans.
Translations from Aramaic
Lamsa Bible
These are the families of the sons of Ephraim according to those that were numbered of them, thirty-two thousand and five hundred. These are the sons of Joseph after their families.

Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
These are the families of the sons of Aphreim by their number, thirty and two thousand and five hundred; these are the sons of Yoseph by their families.
OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
These are the families of the sons of Ephraim according to those that were numbered of them, thirty and two thousand and five hundred. These are the sons of Joseph after their families.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
These are the families of Ephraim according to their numbering, thirty-two thousand and five hundred: these are the families of the children of Joseph according to their families.

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Context
The Tribe of Ephraim
36And the descendants of Shuthelah were the Eranite clan from Eran. 37These were the clans of Ephraim, and their registration numbered 32,500 These clans were the descendants of Joseph.

Cross References
Genesis 46:20
Manasseh and Ephraim were born to Joseph in the land of Egypt by Asenath daughter of Potiphera, priest of On.

1 Chronicles 7:14-19
The descendants of Manasseh: Asriel through his Aramean concubine. She also gave birth to Machir the father of Gilead. / Machir took a wife from among the Huppites and Shuppites. The name of his sister was Maacah. Another descendant was named Zelophehad, who had only daughters. / Machir’s wife Maacah gave birth to a son, and she named him Peresh. His brother was named Sheresh, and his sons were Ulam and Rekem. ...

Genesis 41:50-52
Before the years of famine arrived, two sons were born to Joseph by Asenath daughter of Potiphera, priest of On. / Joseph named the firstborn Manasseh, saying, “God has made me forget all my hardship and all my father’s household.” / And the second son he named Ephraim, saying, “God has made me fruitful in the land of my affliction.”

Genesis 48:5-6
And now your two sons born to you in Egypt before I came to you here shall be reckoned as mine; Ephraim and Manasseh shall be mine, just as Reuben and Simeon are mine. / Any children born to you after them shall be yours, and they shall be called by the names of their brothers in the territory they inherit.

Genesis 48:13-20
And Joseph took both of them—with Ephraim in his right hand toward Israel’s left hand, and Manasseh in his left hand toward Israel’s right hand—and brought them close to him. / But Israel stretched out his right hand and put it on the head of Ephraim, the younger; and crossing his hands, he put his left on Manasseh’s head, although Manasseh was the firstborn. / Then he blessed Joseph and said: “May the God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked, the God who has been my shepherd all my life to this day, ...

Joshua 17:1-6
Now this was the allotment for the tribe of Manasseh as Joseph’s firstborn son, namely for Machir the firstborn of Manasseh and father of the Gileadites, who had received Gilead and Bashan because Machir was a man of war. / So this allotment was for the rest of the descendants of Manasseh—the clans of Abiezer, Helek, Asriel, Shechem, Hepher, and Shemida. These are the other male descendants of the clans of Manasseh son of Joseph. / But Zelophehad son of Hepher (the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh) had no sons but only daughters. These are the names of his daughters: Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah. ...

1 Chronicles 5:23-26
Now the people of the half-tribe of Manasseh were numerous. They settled in the land from Bashan to Baal-hermon (that is, Senir, also known as Mount Hermon). / These were the heads of their families: Epher, Ishi, Eliel, Azriel, Jeremiah, Hodaviah, and Jahdiel. They were mighty men of valor, famous men, and heads of their families. / But they were unfaithful to the God of their fathers, and they prostituted themselves with the gods of the peoples of the land, whom God had destroyed before them. ...

Deuteronomy 33:17
His majesty is like a firstborn bull, and his horns are like those of a wild ox. With them he will gore the nations, even to the ends of the earth. Such are the myriads of Ephraim, and such are the thousands of Manasseh.”

Genesis 49:22-26
Joseph is a fruitful vine—a fruitful vine by a spring, whose branches scale the wall. / The archers attacked him with bitterness; they aimed at him in hostility. / Yet he steadied his bow, and his strong arms were tempered by the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob, in the name of the Shepherd, the Rock of Israel, ...

1 Chronicles 7:29
And along the borders of Manasseh were Beth-shean, Taanach, Megiddo, and Dor, together with their villages. The descendants of Joseph son of Israel lived in these towns.

Ezekiel 37:16-19
“And you, son of man, take a single stick and write on it: ‘Belonging to Judah and to the Israelites associated with him.’ Then take another stick and write on it: ‘Belonging to Joseph—the stick of Ephraim—and to all the house of Israel associated with him.’ / Then join them together into one stick, so that they become one in your hand. / When your people ask you, ‘Won’t you explain to us what you mean by these?’ ...

Revelation 7:6
from the tribe of Asher 12,000, from the tribe of Naphtali 12,000, from the tribe of Manasseh 12,000,

Acts 7:9-10
Because the patriarchs were jealous of Joseph, they sold him as a slave into Egypt. But God was with him / and rescued him from all his troubles. He granted Joseph favor and wisdom in the sight of Pharaoh king of Egypt, who appointed him ruler over Egypt and all his household.

Hebrews 11:21
By faith Jacob, when he was dying, blessed each of Joseph’s sons and worshiped as he leaned on the top of his staff.

Acts 7:14-15
Then Joseph sent for his father Jacob and all his relatives, seventy-five in all. / So Jacob went down to Egypt, where he and our fathers died.


Treasury of Scripture

These are the families of the sons of Ephraim according to those that were numbered of them, thirty and two thousand and five hundred. These are the sons of Joseph after their families.

sons of Benjamin

1 Chronicles 7:6-12
The sons of Benjamin; Bela, and Becher, and Jediael, three…

Ahiram

Genesis 46:2
And God spake unto Israel in the visions of the night, and said, Jacob, Jacob. And he said, Here am I.

Ehi

1 Chronicles 8:1
Now Benjamin begat Bela his firstborn, Ashbel the second, and Aharah the third,

Aharah

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These were the clans of Ephraim,
Ephraim was one of the two sons of Joseph, born to him in Egypt. The tribe of Ephraim held a significant position among the tribes of Israel, often representing the northern kingdom in later biblical history. The blessing of Jacob in Genesis 48:19 foretold that Ephraim would become a multitude of nations, indicating the tribe's future prominence. The tribe's land allocation in Canaan was central, which played a crucial role in Israel's history.

and their registration numbered 32,500.
This census was conducted in the plains of Moab by the Jordan across from Jericho, as part of the preparation for entering the Promised Land. The number 32,500 reflects a decrease from the previous census in Numbers 1, where Ephraim had 40,500 men. This decrease could be attributed to various factors, including the consequences of disobedience and the wilderness wanderings. The census was essential for military and organizational purposes as Israel prepared to conquer Canaan.

These clans were the descendants of Joseph.
Joseph, one of the patriarchs, was sold into slavery by his brothers but rose to power in Egypt, ultimately saving his family during a famine. His sons, Ephraim and Manasseh, were adopted by Jacob and given equal status with Jacob's own sons, effectively granting Joseph a double portion of inheritance. This act fulfilled Jacob's blessing and prophecy in Genesis 48:5-6. Joseph's life is often seen as a type of Christ, with parallels such as betrayal, suffering, and eventual exaltation, which prefigure the life and mission of Jesus.

Persons / Places / Events
1. Ephraim
One of the tribes of Israel, descended from Joseph's son Ephraim. This tribe was known for its significant role in the history of Israel, often representing the northern kingdom.

2. Shuthelah
A descendant of Ephraim, representing one of the clans within the tribe. The Shuthelahites are mentioned as part of the census in Numbers 26.

3. Beker
Another descendant of Ephraim, forming the Bekerite clan. This clan is part of the enumeration of the tribe of Ephraim.

4. Tahan
A descendant of Ephraim, leading to the Tahanite clan. This clan is also included in the census of the tribe of Ephraim.

5. Eran
A descendant of Shuthelah, forming the Eranite clan. This highlights the continuation of family lines within the tribe of Ephraim.
Teaching Points
The Importance of Lineage and Heritage
Understanding our spiritual heritage can strengthen our faith and identity in Christ. Just as the Israelites valued their lineage, Christians can find encouragement in their spiritual ancestry through the faith of the apostles and early church.

God's Faithfulness to His Promises
The growth and establishment of the tribe of Ephraim demonstrate God's faithfulness to His promises. Believers can trust that God will fulfill His promises in their lives, just as He did for the tribes of Israel.

The Role of Families in God's Plan
Families and clans played a crucial role in the structure of Israelite society. Today, families remain vital in nurturing faith and passing down spiritual values. Christians are encouraged to invest in their families as a means of discipleship and spiritual growth.(37) Thirty and two thousand and five hundred.--This shows a decrease of 8,000. Jacob foretold that Ephraim should be greater than Manasseh (Genesis 48:19); and at the former census the number of the Ephraimites was considerably greater than that of the Manassites (Numbers 1:33; Numbers 1:35), and Ephraim was made a standard-bearer (Numbers 2:18). At the present census, however, the number of the Manassites exceeded that of the Ephraimites by 20,200; and yet, in the face of the great increase of Manasseh and the diminution of Ephraim, Moses renewed and confirmed the prediction of Jacob as to the ultimate superiority of Ephraim, and whilst ascribing only "thousands" to Manasseh, he speaks of the "ten thousands of Ephraim" (Deuteronomy 33:17).



Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
These [were]
אֵ֣לֶּה (’êl·leh)
Pronoun - common plural
Strong's 428: These, those

the clans
מִשְׁפְּחֹ֤ת (miš·pə·ḥōṯ)
Noun - feminine plural construct
Strong's 4940: A family, circle of relatives, a class, a species, sort, a tribe, people

of Ephraim,
אֶפְרַ֙יִם֙ (’ep̄·ra·yim)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 669: Ephraim -- a son of Joseph, also his descendants and their territory

and their registration numbered
לִפְקֻ֣דֵיהֶ֔ם (lip̄·qu·ḏê·hem)
Preposition-l | Verb - Qal - QalPassParticiple - masculine plural construct | third person masculine plural
Strong's 6485: To visit, to oversee, muster, charge, care for, miss, deposit

32,500
שְׁנַ֧יִם (šə·na·yim)
Number - md
Strong's 8147: Two (a cardinal number)

These
אֵ֥לֶּה (’êl·leh)
Pronoun - common plural
Strong's 428: These, those

clans [were]
לְמִשְׁפְּחֹתָֽם׃ (lə·miš·pə·ḥō·ṯām)
Preposition-l | Noun - feminine plural construct | third person masculine plural
Strong's 4940: A family, circle of relatives, a class, a species, sort, a tribe, people

the descendants
בְנֵי־ (ḇə·nê-)
Noun - masculine plural construct
Strong's 1121: A son

of Joseph.
יוֹסֵ֖ף (yō·w·sêp̄)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3130: Joseph -- 'he increases', a son of Jacob, also the name of several Israelites


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