"On the westside[shall be] the standardof the campof Ephraimby their armies,and the leaderof the sonsof Ephraim[shall be] Elishamathe sonof Ammihud,
"Nowyour twosons,who were bornto you in the landof EgyptbeforeI cameto you in Egypt,are mine; Ephraimand Manassehshall be mine, as Reubenand Simeonare.
"With weepingthey will come,And by supplicationI will leadthem; I will make them walkby streamsof waters,On a straightpathin which they will not stumble;For I ama fatherto Israel,And Ephraimis My firstborn."
of the sonsof Joseph:of Ephraim,Elishamathe sonof Ammihud;of Manasseh,Gamalielthe sonof Pedahzur;
Of the sonsof Joseph,[namely], of the sonsof Ephraim,their genealogicalregistrationby their families,by their fathers'households,according to the numberof names,from twentyyearsoldand upward,whoever[was able to] goout to war,
Next the standardof the campof the sonsof Ephraim,according to their armies,was setout, with Elishamathe sonof Ammihudoverits army,
and his army,even their numberedmen, 40,500
On the seventhday[it was] Elishamathe sonof Ammihud,leaderof the sonsof Ephraim;
and for the sacrificeof peaceofferings,twooxen,fiverams,fivemalegoats,fivemalelambsone yearold.This[was] the offeringof Elishamathe sonof Ammihud.
"As the firstbornof his ox,majestyis his, And his hornsare the hornsof the wildox;With them he will pushthe peoples,Allat once,[to] the endsof the earth.And thoseare the tenthousandsof Ephraim,And thoseare the thousandsof Manasseh."