Verse 17
"And the tabernacle was taken down; and the sons of Gershon and the sons of Merari, who bare the tabernacle, set forward. And the standard of the camp of Reuben set forward according to their hosts: and over his host was Elizur the son of Shedeur, And over the host of the tribe of the children of Simeon was Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai. And over the host of the tribe of the children of Gad was Eliasaph the son of Deuel."
"The sons of Gershon and Merari ..." (Numbers 10:17)." The dispatch of these families in advance of the main group was evidently so that they could, "set up the tabernacle and have it ready when the furniture arrived."[19]
"The son of Deuel ..." (Numbers 10:20). This is evidently a typographical error, unless we resort to the supposition that Reuel (Numbers 2:14) was also called Deuel, which is not an impossible supposition at all. It may be news to some that there is even a typographical error in the ASV (2 Timothy 3:17) where "throughly" was written instead of "thoroughly" in all early copies of that version.
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