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.

5. When they set up the tabernacle, they received it into the
midst of their camp, three of the tribes pitching their tents on
each side of it; and roads were cut through the midst of these
tents. It was like a well-appointed market; and every thing was
there ready for sale in due order; and all sorts of artificers
were in the shops; and it resembled nothing so much as a city
that sometimes was movable, and sometimes fixed. The priests had
the first places about the tabernacle; then the Levites, who,
because their whole multitude was reckoned from thirty days old,
were twenty-three thousand eight hundred and eighty males; and
during the time that the cloud stood over the tabernacle, they
thought proper to stay in the same place, as supposing that God
there inhabited among them; but when that removed, they journeyed
also.

6. Moreover, Moses was the inventor of the form of their trumpet,
which was made of silver. Its description is this: - In length it
was little less than a cubit. It was composed of a narrow tube,
somewhat thicker than a flute, but with so much breadth as was
sufficient for admission of the breath of a man's mouth: it ended
in the form of a bell, like common trumpets. Its sound was called