Threescore and fourteen thousand and six hundred. — The superiority of Judah in point of numbers over all the other tribes deserves notice in connection with the blessing pronounced on that tribe by Jacob in Genesis 49:8 : “Thou art he whom thy brethren shall praise.” In like manner it should be observed that the number of the tribe of Ephraim (Numbers 1:33) exceeded that of the tribe of Manasseh (Numbers 1:35). (See Genesis 48:19-20.)
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Numbers 1:27
27 Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Judah, were threescore and fourteen thousand and six hundred.