·"•ith the Reubcnites, then it might be posed that Pharez had other sons not men. ..:i~Nne.i necessary to force this statement tioned here or in Gen. xlvi. 12, or in 1 Chron. ,into accordance with that certo.inty; but it ii. 3, 4, 6. ii, nowhere stated, or even cleo.rly implied, Ver. 23.--The aons of IQachar. As in that he perished by fire, and therefore there Gen. xlvi. 13 ; 1 Chron. vii. 1, except that -is no excuse for doing violence to the obvious in Genesis we have Job instead of Ja.shub; meaning of thill verse. Kora.h, Datha.n, and the two names, however, appear to have the Abira.m were swallowed up, we a.re told, a.t same meaning. the same· time that Korah's company were Ver. ·26.-The 1on1 of Zebulun. As in -consumed by fire ; tha.t is a cleo.r statement, Gen. xlvi. 14. .and cannot be set a.sicl.e by any supposed Ver. 29.-The sons of llana11eh. There cnecessity for avenging the sacrilegious am- is considerable difficnlty abont the families bition of Korah by the element of fire. And of this tribe, because they are not recorded they became a sign. The Hebrew C'- pro- in Genesis, while the details preserved in J>erly means a. banner or ensign, and is un- 1 Chron. vii. 14 - 17 are so obscure and usual in this sense. It exactly corresponds, fragmentary as to be extremely perplexing. however, to the Greek 11qµEtov, and ha.a no According to the present enumeration there ,doubt the same secondary signification - a. were eight families in Manasseh, one named ,something ma.de conspicuous in order to after his son Machir, one after his grandson -attract attention a.nd enforce a. warning (cf. Gilead, and the rest after his great-grand- ~h. xvi. 30, 38). sons. The list given in Josh. x:vii 1, 2 agrees with this, except that the Machirites Ver. 11.-The children of Xorah died not. and the Gileadites are apparently identified. The confused nature of the narrative in eh. It appears from the genealogy in 1 Chron. xvi. is well exemplified by this statement ; vii. that the mother of Machir was a stranger -we should certainly ha.ve supposed from eh. from Aram, the count1y of Laban. This xvi. 32 that Korah's sons ha.d perished with may perhaps account for the fact that .him, if we were not here told to the con- Machir's son received the name of Gilead -tra.ry. The sons of Korah a.re frequently for Gilead was the border land between Aram ·mentioned among the Levites, and Samuel and Canaan; it more probably explains the liimself would seem to have been of them subseq_uent allotment of territory in that •(see on 1 Chron. vi. 22, 28, 33-38, e.nd direction to the Machirites (eh. llxii. 40). titles to Ps. xiii., lx:xxviii., &c.) ; it is, how- Gilead appears a.gain as a proper name in -ever, slightly donbtful whether the Koha.thite Judges n. 2. _ Kora.h of -1 Chron. vi. 22, the ancestor of • Ver. 33.-Zelophehad .. had no aona, .Samuel, is the same a.a the Izha.rite Korah, but daughters. This is mentioned here the ancestor qf Heman, in 1 Chron. vi. 38. because the cnse wns to come prominently Ver. 12.-The ■ons of Simeon. As in Gen. before the lawgiver and the no.tion (cf. eh. xlvi. 10; Exod. vi. 15, with the omission of xxvii. 1 ; xxxvi. l ; 1 Chron. vii. 15). -Ohad, who may not have founded any family. Ver. 35.-The aona of Ephraim. These In such cases it is no doubt possible that formed but four families, three named after there were childl'en, but that for some reo.son sons, one after a grandson. In 1 Chron. vii. -they failed to hold together, and became 21 two other sons of Ephraim are mentioned .attached to other families. In 1 Chl'on. iv. who were killed in their father's lifetime, ·24 the sons of Simeon appear a.a Nemuel, and a third, Berio.h, who was the ancestor of .Jamin, Jo.rib, Zera.h, o.nd Shaul. In Genesis Joshua. He does not seem to have founded and Exodus the first appeal's as J emuel. a sepnrate family, possibly because he wo.s so These minute vario.tions are only important very much younger than his brothers. ..as showing that Divine inspiration did not Ver. 38.-The sons of :Benjamin. These pl'cserve ·tne sacred l'ecords from errors of formed seven families, five named after sons, tro.nscription. two after grandsons. The list in Gen. xlvi. Ver. 16.-The ohildren of Gad. Cf. Gen. 21 contains three nnmes here omitted, and xlvi. 16, the only other enumeration of the the rest a!'e much cho.nged in form. There sons of Gad. is still more divergence between these and Ver. 20.-The -aona of J'udah after their the longer genealogies found in 1 Chron. vii. ·families. The Beni-Juda.b, or "men of 6-12; viii. 1-5 sq. It is possible that tho J ndah," according to their sub-tribal divisions, family of Becher (Genesis), who ho.d nine care clearly distinguished from the " sons of sons (1 Chron.), went under another name, Judah" a.s individuals, two of whom a.re beco.use there was a family of Becherites in mentioned in the previous verse. Of the Ephraim (ver. 35) ; and similarly the family fa.milios of Jud~h, three were named after of the Ephraimite Bcrio.h (1 Chron.) may sons, two after grandsons. As the Pharzites have coded its-no.me in favour of the Asherite .remained a distiqot family a.pa.rt from the family of Beriites (ver. 44). But it must be llamulites and Hezronites, it may be snp- acknowledged that the various gcnealogiea AA2 356 THE BOOK OF NUMBERS. [ea. xxvx. 1-6&.
of Benjamin cannot be reconciled as they Ishuah, or lsuah. It is posaible that its 11ta.nd. similarity to the following no.me of Isni or Ver. 42.-The 10111 of Dan. These all lshui led to its aooidental omilision ; but if formed but one family, named after Shuham the family continued to exist in Israel, such (elsewhere Hushim), the only son of Dan an omission could scarcely be overlooked. that is mentioned. It is possible that Dan Ver. 48.-The aona of Jfaphtali. .As in had other children, whose descendants were Gen. xlvi. 24 ; 1 Chron. vii. 13. incorporated with the Shuha.mites. Ver. 51.-Thesewerethe numbereilofthe Ver. 44.-The children of Asher. Of children of Israel. The results of this census these three families were n&med after sons as compared with the former may be tabu• two after grandsons. In Gen. xlvi. 17 ; i lated thus:- Chron. vii. 80. 31 a sixth name occurs, Tribe. No. or rt\mili~. First C.neu. Seoond CenSWJ. DHnase. i:-. Reuben. Simeon. Gad. 4 5 7 46,500 59,300 45,650 43,780 22,200 40,500 63 11 . 6 p. c.