The largest of the tribes of Israel. In the Desert of Sinai it numbered 74,600 fighting men (Numbers 1), and in the plains of Moab, 76,500 (Numbers 26). The territory assigned to the tribe by Josue lay in the southern portion of Palestine (Joshua 15).
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