These are the families of the children of Gad according to those that were numbered of them, forty thousand and five hundred.
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Interpretation
Moses did not number the people but when God commanded him. We have here the families registered, as well as the tribes.
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This thought runs through Numbers 26:15-18.
Glossary
- Gad Person
- Fortune; luck. (1. ) Jacob’s seventh son, by Zilpah, Leah’s handmaid, and the brother of Asher ( Gen. 30:11-13 ; 46:16 , 18). In the Authorized Version of 30:11 the words, “A troop cometh: and she called,” etc.