they. Some codices, with Aram, and Syriac, read "ye": i.e. not the three Patriarchs, but the descendants of each one respectively.
few men in number. men (Hebrew. methim. App-14. V) of number: i.e. soon numbered (see note on "almost", Proverbs 5:14). Compare Genesis 34:30; Deuteronomy 4:27; Deuteronomy 26:5.Jeremiah 44:28. (The opposite is "without number", Psalms 40:12.) This could not be said of the Patriarchs.