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Take the sum. For the order of the tribes see App-45. Moses received them by number, Exo_38:26; so now, when preparing to die, he delivers them over by number. This was the third numbering.
children = sons.
their fathers' house: i.e. the families. These shown here to be fortyseven. In Gen 46 they are fifty-two; so five are extinct (one of Simeon, one of Asher, and three of Benjamin).