¹tn Heb “heads of the house of their fathers.”
²tn Heb “to Tola [there were] warriors by their generations, their number in the days of David [was] 22,600.”
³tn The Hebrew text has the plural “sons,” but only one son is listed.
⁴tn Heb “and unto them by their generations to the house of their fathers [were] troops of war of battle, 36,000, for they had many wives and sons.”
⁵tn Heb “and their brothers, according to all the clans of Issachar, the warriors [were] 87,000 listed in the genealogical records for all.”
⁶tc The Hebrew text has simply “Benjamin,” but ynb, “sons of,” has dropped out by haplography (/mynb ynb).
⁷tn The Hebrew text has the plural “sons,” but only one son is listed.
⁸tn The name “Aher” appears as “Ahiram” in Num 26:38.
⁹tn The name “Jahziel” appears as “Jahzeel” in Gen 46:24.
¹⁰tc Most Hebrew mss read “Shallum”; some Hebrew mss and some LXX mss read “Shillem,” the form of the name that appears in Gen 46:24 and Num 26:49.
¹¹sn See the note on the word “concubine” in 1:32.
¹²tn Some translations treat the terms <yP!v% (v%PP!<) and <yP!j% (j%PP!<) as proper names of individuals (“Huppim” and “Shuppim”), but others consider these forms to be plurals and refer to tribal or clan names.
¹³tn Heb “and the name of the second was Zelophehad.”
¹⁴tn The Hebrew text has the plural “sons,” but only one son is listed.
¹⁵tn Heb “he”; the referent (Ephraim) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
¹⁶tn Heb “because in tragedy there had come to his house.” The preposition prefixed to hur should probably be omitted. The Hebrew noun hur, “tragedy,” should be understood as the subject of the feminine verb form that follows.
¹⁷tn The antecedent of the pronoun “his” is not clear. The translation assumes that v. 25 resumes the list of Ephraim’s descendants (see vv. 20-21a) after a lengthy parenthesis (vv. 21b-24).
¹⁸tc The Hebrew text has simply “Resheph,” but the phrase “his son” has probably been accidentally omitted, since the names before and after this one include the phrase.
¹⁹tn Heb “Non” (cf. Exod 33:11, where the more familiar spelling “Nun” occurs).
²⁰map For location see Map4-G4; Map5-C1; Map6-E3; Map7-D1; Map8-G3.
²¹tn “Beth Shean” is a variant spelling of “Beth Shan.”
²²map For location see Map1-D4; Map2-C1; Map4-C2; Map5-F2; Map7-B1.
²³tc The Hebrew text has yja, “the brother of,” but this should probably be emended to wyja, “his brother.” Cf. v. 35. Most English translations treat this Hebrew word as a proper name (“Ahi”) and list it before “Rohgah.”
²⁴tn Or “Shomer,” cf. v. 32.
²⁵tc “Hubbah” is the marginal reading (Qere); the consonantal text (Kethib) has “Jachbah.”
²⁶tn Or “Hotham,” cf. v. 32.
²⁷tn The name “Ithran” is sometimes understood to be another name for “Jether” (v. 38).
²⁸tn Heb “all these were the sons of Asher, heads of the house of the fathers, selected, warriors, heads of the leaders, and there was listed in the genealogical records in war, in battle, their number, men, 26,000.”