Take ye the sum— See Exodus 30:12; Exodus 38:26 and the 26th chapter of this book. The tribes were divided into families, the families into houses or households, Judges 7:16 but here the house of their fathers seems of the same import with the tribes of their fathers: so in Numbers 1:4 the princes of the tribes, are called, heads of the houses of their fathers; and Numbers 1:44 the house of their fathers is the same as the tribe of their fathers, Numbers 1:47.

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