Census of Israel in the Plains of Moab, Part 4

Continuing a chronological Bible study, started in the previous three posts:

Census of Israel in the Plains of Moab, Part 1

Census of Israel in the Plains of Moab, Part 2

Census of Israel in the Plains of Moab, Part 3

Chapter 26 of Numbers has had to be chopped up into many short posts because Blogger limits the number of labels each post can have.  There is an all-important census going on in this chapter, and all the names should be noted.  Continuing:

(Numbers 26:28) The sons of Joseph after their families were Manasseh and Ephraim.

The sons of Joseph were Manasseh and Ephraim, and they became two of the twelve tribes of Israel.

(29) Of the sons of Manasseh: of Machir, the family of the Machirites; and Machir begat Gilead: of Gilead come the family of the Gileadites. (30) These are the sons of Gilead: Jeezer, the family of the Jeezerites; of Helek, the family of the Helekites. (31) And of Asriel, the family of the Asrielites: and Shechem, the family of the Shechemites; (32) And Shemida, the family of the Shemidaites; and Hepher, the family of the Hepherites.

From Machir, the son of Manasseh, came the family of the Machirites.  Machir's son was Gilead, and the Gileadites were separated into six families after his sons, Jeezer, Helek, Asriel, Shechem, Shemida, and Hepher.

(33) And Zelophehad the son of Hepher had no sons, but daughters: and the names of the daughters of Zelophehad were Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.

It appears that Hepher, the son of Gilead, had only one son, Zelophehad, who had no sons, only five daughters, but they were important enough to be named here, even though they would not be counted as able to go to war.  They were Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.

(34) These are the families of Manasseh; and those who were numbered of them were fifty-two thousand seven hundred.

The families of the tribe of Manasseh were numbered at 52,700 able-bodied men of war twenty years and older.  Their numbers had increased by 20,500 since the census 38 years prior to this one.  Indeed Manasseh's numbers had increased more than those of any other tribe.

Once again, I have to end a short post and continue in the next because Blogger limits the number of labels I can have in each post.  To continue the census:

Census of Israel in the Plains of Moab, Part 5