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Now when this settlement of laws seemed to be well over, Moses thought
fit at length to take a review of the host, as thinking it proper to settle
the affairs of war. So he charged the heads of the tribes, excepting the
tribe of Levi, to take an exact account of the number of those that were
able to go to war; for as to the Levites, they were holy, and free from
all such burdens. Now when the people had been numbered, there were found
six hundred thousand that were able to go to war, from twenty to fifty
years of age, besides three thousand six hundred and fifty. Instead of
Levi, Moses took Manasseh, the son of Joseph, among the heads of tribes;
and Ephraim instead of Joseph. It was indeed the desire of Jacob himself
to Joseph, that he would give him his sons to be his own by adoption, as
I have before related.
Flavius Josephus. The Works of Flavius Josephus. Translated by. William Whiston, A.M. Auburn and Buffalo. John E. Beardsley. 1895.
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