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| | Shabbat Parshat Bamidbar 5765 - OU Torah Insights Project |
 | | Regarding the other three sides of the camp, the Torah uses the term " vehachonim alav (2:5,12, and 27)" — literally "and camping on him," i.e., “on his side” to refer to the adjacent tribes. |
 | | While " hachonim alav" indicates that the second tribe was dependent on the main one, " ve’alav", as used in reference to Menasheh, means that the second tribe was superior to the main one, Efraim. |
 | | In this and subsequent censuses in the desert, however, Menashe, the older of Yosef’s children, was " alav," superior to his brother. |
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