Numbers 26 · Verse 28

Numbers 26:28

The sons of Joseph after their families were Manasseh and Ephraim.
Numbers 26:28, King James Version

Numbers 26:28 in other translations

BSBThe descendants of Joseph included the clans of Manasseh and Ephraim.
WEBThe sons of Joseph after their families: Manasseh and Ephraim.
ASVThe sons of Joseph after their families: Manasseh and Ephraim.
YLTSons of Joseph by their families are Manasseh and Ephraim.
DARBYThe sons of Joseph, after their families: Manasseh and Ephraim.
BBEThe sons of Joseph by their families: Manasseh and Ephraim.
WebsterThe sons of Joseph after their families were Manasseh and Ephraim.

What does Numbers 26:28 mean?

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Numbers 26:1-51

Moses did not number the people but when God commanded him. We have here the families registered, as well as the tribes. The total was nearly the same as when numbered at mount Sinai. Notice is here taken of the children of Korah; they died not, as the children of Dathan and Abiram; they seem not to have joined even their own father in rebellion. If we partake not of the sins of sinners, we shall not partake of…

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Numbers 26:28 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

בְּנֵ֥יbe.Nei[the] sons ofH1121
יוֹסֵ֖ףyo.SefJosephH3130
לְמִשְׁפְּחֹתָ֑םle.mish.pe.cho.Tamto clans theirH4940
מְנַשֶּׁ֖הme.na.ShehManassehH4519
וְאֶפְרָֽיִם\׃ve.'ef.Ra.yimand EphraimH669

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Cross references for Numbers 26:28

  • Genesis 46:20

    And unto Joseph in the land of Egypt were born Manasseh and Ephraim, which Asenath the daughter of Poti–pherah priest of On bare unto him.

  • Genesis 41:51-52

    And Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh: For God, said he, hath made me forget all my toil, and all my father’s house. And the name of the second called he Ephraim: For God hath caused me to be fruitful in the land of my affliction.

  • Genesis 48:5

    And now thy two sons, Ephraim and Manasseh, which were born unto thee in the land of Egypt before I came unto thee into Egypt, are mine; as Reuben and Simeon, they shall be mine.

  • Genesis 48:13-20

    And Joseph took them both, Ephraim in his right hand toward Israel’s left hand, and Manasseh in his left hand toward Israel’s right hand, and brought them near unto him. And Israel stretched out his right hand, and laid it upon Ephraim’s head, who was the younger, and his left hand upon Manasseh’s head, guiding his hands wittingly; for Manasseh was the firstborn. And he blessed Joseph, and said, God, before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac did walk, the God which fed me all my life long unto this day, The Angel which redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads; and let my name be named on them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac; and let them grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth. …

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Ge 41:51,52; 46:20; 48:5,13-20

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Context

  • Numbers 26:27

    These are the families of the Zebulunites according to those that were numbered of them, threescore thousand and five hundred.

  • Numbers 26:28

    The sons of Joseph after their families were Manasseh and Ephraim.

  • Numbers 26:29

    Of the sons of Manasseh: of Machir, the family of the Machirites: and Machir begat Gilead: of Gilead come the family of the Gileadites.

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Numbers 26:28 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Los hijos de José por sus familias: Manasés y Ephraim.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Les fils de Joseph, selon leurs familles, Manassé et Éphraïm.
German
Elberfelder 1871
Die Söhne Josephs nach ihren Geschlechtern: Manasse und Ephraim.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Filii Joseph per cognationes suas, Manasse et Ephraim.