Numbers 1:42

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Of the children of Naphtali, their generations, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go forth to war;

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The Exodus RouteThe route of the Israelites out of Egypt through the Sinai wilderness toward Canaan.

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Egypt was the land of Israel’s slavery, from which God had delivered them in the exodus. The Wilderness of Sinai was the desert region where Israel camped before entering Canaan, and where this census counted the tribe of Naphtali among the men available for military service.

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Numbers 1:42 mentions Egypt and Wilderness of Sinai.

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