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Sunday, January 9, 2011

Selected Quia Games and Quizzes

http://www.quia.com/shared/

SPANISH:
Spanish pronouns: http://www.quia.com/mc/322547.html

Adjectives:
http://www.quia.com/mc/66063.html

Food and Drinks: http://www.quia.com/cb/28652.html

Body Parts:
http://www.quia.com/quiz/794975.html?AP_rand=578159630

Colors:
http://www.quia.com/hm/163554.html

Days of the Week: http://www.quia.com/jw/116339.html?AP_rand=1357339885

SCIENCE:
Chemistry - common elements:
http://www.quia.com/mc/65904.html

Atomic Structure: http://www.quia.com/rr/70834.html

30 Elements' Symbols (Matching Game)
http://www.quia.com/jg/907334.html

40 Elements' Symbols (Matching Game)
http://www.quia.com/jg/611032.html

Properties of Matter
http://www.quia.com/jg/611032.html

Periodic Table of Elements (Scavenger HUnt) check websites!
http://www.quia.com/sh/9629.html?AP_rand=642082197

Elemental Table (Rags to Riches)
http://www.quia.com/rr/41449.html

Atoms and Elements: http://www.quia.com/rr/41449.html

CIVICS:
Bill of Rights (First 10 Amendments)
http://www.quia.com/pp/43250.html?AP_rand=1395570334

Rags to Riches version: http://www.quia.com/rr/686920.html

Matching Version: http://www.quia.com/mc/2049564.html

Bill of Rights Vocabulary: http://www.quia.com/rr/686921.html

5th Grade - Branches of Government:
http://www.quia.com/rr/103659.html

Election Process: http://www.quia.com/rr/580312.html

How a Bill Becomes a Law:
http://www.quia.com/rd/194382.html?AP_rand=300886918

Constitution and History:
http://www.quia.com/jg/2068207.html

MATH:
5th grade math vocab
http://www.quia.com/jg/2068207.html

WORLD HISTORY:
Short ancient timeline
http://www.quia.com/rd/37561.html?AP_rand=875454615

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Friday, February 12, 2010

The Building of The Parthenon



Our History Lesson today . . . . . The Building of The Parthenon
This should count as MATH and history. AMAZING!
Season 33, episode 9 -- from HULU.com
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Thursday, January 14, 2010

Ancient Olympics

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STORY PREFACE

Story Summary
Since 1896, the world's leading athletes compete in the Olympics. Baron Pierre de Coubertin (father of the modern Olympics), believed that athletic competition between amateur athletes would help improve international relations. He faced strong initial opposition to his idea that sports could temper politics.
Athens, the capital of Greece, hosted the first modern games. For more than a thousand years, another place in Greece - a sacred area called Olympia - hosted the ancient games. What do we know of those ancient games? How did they start? Why were they always held in Olympia?
To learn the answers to those - and more - questions, we need to take a trip back in time to the Archaic Period of ancient Greece.

THE LEGEND BEHIND THE GAMES

Oinomaos (Oenomaus) was a legendary king of Pisa (an area not far from Elis in the western part of Greece). His daughter Hippodameia, of marriageable age, had many suitors with whom Oinomaos was not always pleased. He had reason to worry. An oracle had warned Oinomaos that he would die at the hand of his son-in-law.

Boastful of his chariot-racing skills, Oinomaos issued a legendary challenge. He would determine the worth of any potential son-in-law by testing his racing skills. If the king failed to overtake any of his daughter's suitors in a chariot race between Olympia to the Isthmus of Corinth (where ships were moved overland in ancient times but now travel through the man-made Corinthian Canal), the victorious racer would could marry Hippodameia.
 
However, if any suitor lost the race, he would die. Many erstwhile suitors had already lost their heads to the sword of Oinomaos. The king, an expert charioteer, thought he would never lose. Then love interfered.

Desiring to marry a handsome suitor named Pelops, Hippodameia approached her father's charioteer, Myrtilus (Myrsilos), with a devious plan. If her father's chariot were missing a linchpin from one of its wheels, she could fix the outcome of the race between her father and her suitor. Myrtilus, also in love with Hippodameia, agreed to betray the king. He loosened the linchpin so the wheel would break free from the axle. (Note that some of the legends say it was Pelops who concocted the plan.)

With Oinomaos holding the reins of his horses, attempting to overtake the speeding chariot in front of him, his chariot wheels fell away. According to one version of the story, the king was caught in the reins and was dragged to death. Another version says that Pelops killed him. In either event, Oinomaos lost both control and his life. Pelops won the day and the bride. He also became king and, after conquering nearby Apia and Pelasgiotis, named the entire region after himself.

The southern part of the Greek mainland is called the Peloponnese (or Peloponnesus, meaning Island of Pelops) to this day.

To honor Zeus (whose statue at Olympia, later sculpted by Pheidias, was one of the seven wonders of the ancient world) and to celebrate the life of Oinomaos (after his death) Pelops organized commemorative games to be held in Olympia. It was the beginning of a thousand-year tradition in the ancient Greek world. According to legend, it was also the beginning of a curse on Pelops' family.

OLYMPIA: HOST OF THE GAMES

Festival games were held in Olympia, in the section of Greece called Elis. (Elis is in the northwestern Peloponnesus.) Getting more rain than other parts of this dry country, Elis has more trees and forests. It also has beautiful groves. One of those groves, called Altis, was a sacred place.

Located in the valley between the rivers Alpheus and Kladeos, the grove of Altis represented holy - hence, neutral - ground. It was home (be patient with this slow-loading Greek web site) to the great sanctuary of Zeus, chief god of the Greeks, whom the ancients believed lived on Mount Olympus. A smaller sanctuary, dedicated to Hera (the wife of Zeus) was part of the sacred site. The area, where Greeks traveled to honor their gods, was also a perfect place to honor their top athletes. Included in the temple of Zeus (on the East Pediment) was a depiction of the chariot race between Oinomaos and Pelops.

For more than 1,000 years - in war or peace - Greeks gathered in Olympia for the Olympic festival. According to Hippias (a sophist who lived in Elis and, in the 5th century B.C., compiled a list of initial victors), the games began in about 776 B.C. They ended, in 393 A.D., when Emperor Theodosius I closed all ancient pagan sanctuaries and banned all associated games. His successor, Theodosius II, had the temples demolished in 426. Thereafter, earthquakes and floods buried the remains until the mid-19th century.

Let's take a trip to Olympia (today a small town of about 1,800 people who farm and tend to the tourists) to view what remains of the original Olympic stadium (and its surroundings).

A TRIP TO OLYMPIA

What did athletes, judges, and spectators see when they participated in the ancient Olympic Games? Between the writings of ancient historians, and ruins of buildings at Olympia, we can piece together what the games must have been like thousands of years ago.
  • Spectators passed through a vaulted entry way as they came into the Stadium.
  • They sat on wooden stands which were mounted on the earthen bank surrounding the stadium. The distance from the foreground starting line to the finish line (with its still-original stones) was a stade (also called stadion and measuring about 192.28 meters) from which "stadium" gets its name.
  • To be sure they had a good view of the finish line, judges had a nearby seating area.
  • Olympic athletes trained in a Gymnasium at Olympia.
  • The Philippeion (situated to the left of the path which led back to the Stadium) was started by Philip of Macedon and likely finished by his son, Alexander the Great, hundreds of years after the first Olympic Games.
  • Only foot races were part of the original games. Later, other sports were added and athletes, especially wrestlers, trained in the courtyard of the Palestra.
  • Pheidias, the sculptor, had a studio at Olympia where he worked on his great statue of Zeus. Parts of the two-room studio, and its exterior, remain.
  • Deterioration of the great temple of Zeus was aided by an earthquake which caused many of the columns to fall.
Who participated in the ancient Olympic Games? Were female athletes allowed to compete? Were women allowed in the stadium to watch the competition? Given the scope of our modern games, the restrictions which applied in ancient times may surprise you.

WHO PARTICIPATED?

Male Greek athletes, who were born free, participated in the ancient Olympics. They wore no clothes during their meets and ran barefooted. Scholars believe the type of clothing worn at the time would have restricted peak athletic performance.
Olympic festivals were so important that the Greeks imposed a Sacred Truce so athletes could freely travel. (In Greek, the word for truce - ekecheiria - means "holding of hands.") The words of the Truce were inscribed on a bronze discus, housed in the Temple of Hera, at Olympia. Its impact was significant.
While in effect, the truce suspended wars and death penalties, prevented armies from entering Elis and/or threatening the Games, and held legal disputes in abeyance. Sanctions were imposed against violators.
Women and girls could not participate as athletes in the ancient Olympic games. When equestrian events were added, women were allowed to own competing chariot teams and individual horses, but they could not ride the horses or guide the teams themselves. Pausanias (writing in the 2nd century A.D.) reports (at 5.8.11):
Afterwards they added races for chariots and pairs of foals, and for single foals with rider. It is said that the victors proclaimed were: for the chariot and pair, Belistiche, a woman from the seaboard of Macedonia...
Unmarried girls were allowed to watch the competition, but married women were absolutely forbidden on penalty of DEATH. Pausanias:
As you go from Scillus along the road to Olympia, before you cross the Alpheius, there is a mountain with high, precipitous cliffs. It is called Mount Typaeum. It is a law of Elis to cast down it any women who are caught present at the Olympic games, or even on the other side of the Alpheius, on the days prohibited to women.
A story is told of an exception to that rule. Pausanias continues:
However, they say that no woman has been caught, except Callipateira only....She, being a widow, disguised herself exactly like a gymnastic trainer, and brought her son to compete at Olympia. Peisirodus, for so her son was called, was victorious, and Callipateira, as she was jumping over the enclosure in which they keep the trainers shut up, bared her person. So her sex was discovered, but they let her go unpunished out of respect for her father, her brothers and her son, all of whom had been victorious at Olympia. But a law was passed that for the future trainers should strip before entering the arena.
Females, in honor of Hera, were allowed to run foot races in the Olympic stadium. However, these races (for girls, teenagers, and young women who likely wore knee-length tunics covering the left shoulder and breast) were not part of the ancient Olympic games, and the distance they ran (about 160 meters) was less than the distance for male competition (about 190 meters)
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When Pierre de Coubertin launched the modern Olympics in 1896, he incorporated the ancient tradition of preventing females from participating in track and field events. That total ban lasted until the Amsterdam games of 1928. After Germany's Lina Radke collapsed that year, following her gold-medal run of the 800 meters, women were once again banned - this time from all races over 200 meters. Those restrictions were not lifted until the 1960 games.

ANCIENT OLYMPIC SPORTS

The Olympics began in the Early Archaic Period - a time of Greek political, economic and cultural development. Some scholars think that Homer, a blind poet who is credited with both the Iliad and the Odyssey, likely lived (if he was an actual person) around 800 B.C., a mere twenty-four years after the first recorded Olympics.

Homer's epics - perhaps first written in the Ionic version (see Note 4)  of the Greek alphabet (which has roots in Phoenician characters) by someone who was listening to a "live" Homeric performance - remain important links to this ancient period.

Olympic sports, at the time of Homer (scroll down 80%) and later, were rooted in religion. First - and always foremost - athletes participated in sports to honor their gods. The Olympics were created to honor Zeus. The modern meaning of "sports" and "games" is therefore not descriptive for what the Greeks were really up to at their Olympics.
Competitive exercises, for a Greek living in the Archaic Period, were called agon (from which we get our word "agony"). Gymnikos agon (meaning "naked struggle") was the way an ancient Greek viewed athletic competition.

Ponos, Greek for "pain," was an expected part of training and competing. (The Greek god Ponos, parenthetically, was the son of Eris [strife] and Erebus [darkness].) And ... Olympic sports, at that time, were not team events. Focus was on individual performance and winning. No prizes were given for second and third place.

The foot-race was the first Olympic event - and the only event for the first 13 Olympiads. It measured a distance of one stade (192.28 meters for the Olympics) and took place in the stadion (from which we get our word "stadium"). The point of the race was to beat the best man, not run to a stop watch. Runners who "jumped the gun," to use a modern phrase, could be flogged by referees holding willowy rods.
At first, the Olympic stadium (where foot-races were run) was itself inside the Altis (the sacred area). Spectators viewed races from the Kronion (Kronos Hill).  By the late Classical period, however, a stadium was built east of the sacred precinct, where its remains (connected to the sanctuary by a vaulted passageway) are still visible.

Other sports - beginning with wrestling and the pentathlon in the 18th Olympiad - were added and, by Classical times, the games numbered eighteen. They included boxing, horse racing, and additional running events. The Marathon, which takes its name from the famous battle in 490 B.C.) was never part of the ancient Olympics.

Thanks to surviving Greek pottery, we can view ancient athletes in action. Let's take a look at their prowess.

ATHLETES IN ACTION

The stadium at Olympia held 45,000 spectators. The high priestess of Demeter Chamyne, a Greek goddess, was the only woman allowed to watch the events.
No time records of early foot races exist since there was no way to measure how long it took for the winner to reach the finish line. What does survive are statues and pottery depicting the runners.
A few important points about some events will highlight differences between the ancient and modern games:
The athletes competed for a crown of wild olive leaves, made from a tree (called The Olive of the Beautiful Crown) which grew in the Altis. During the games, the crowns rested on a gold and ivory table in the Temple of Hera.

Like today, the real rewards were far more than a crown. So important was a win (for the athlete, for his family, for his town) that specific Olympic victories were used as historical reference points. (The battle of Marathon, for example, took place in the third year of the Olympiad in which Tisicrates of Croton [scroll down 60%] won the stadion for the second time.) Thousands of years later, we still know the names of athletes because Greek writers immortalized their exploits in stories and poems.
One is left to wonder whether victors in the modern games will still be talked about a thousand years from now!

USED AND RECOMMENDED SOURCES

A "primary source" is the best place to get first-hand information. A person who experiences an event, and gives an account of it, is a source of primary information. Maps, photographs, drawings, videotapes, diaries, letters, manuscripts and other similar items can be primary sources.
Someone who interprets primary sources - like a scholar, for example - is creating a secondary source. (See Yale University's web site for a good understanding of the differences between primary and secondary sources.)

It is our policy to link to primary source material whenever possible. That is the reason most of our links are to worldwide national archives, museums, universities, military and government sites as well as other institutions like historical societies and libraries. It is our aim to provide a virtual trip to reliable places where primary sources are maintained. We frequently link to scholarly sources as well. All links serve as footnotes to our stories.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 1 -  Story Preface      

chapter 2 - The Legend Behind the Games

chapter 3 - Olympia:  Host of the Games

chapter 4 - A Trip to Olympia

chapter 5 - Who Participated?

chapter 6 - Ancient Olympic Sports

chapter 7 - Athletes in Action

chapter 8 - Uses and Recommended Sources


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Wednesday, October 21, 2009

The Tribes of Isreal


Tribes of Israel
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Part I - Introductory Facts about the 12 Tribes of Israel
Abraham begot Isaac. Isaac begot Jacob.
  • To be an Israelite by blood, a person must be a descendent of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
Jacob begot 12 sons who are listed herein in subsequent sections.
  • The 12 sons of Jacob are the patriarchs of the 12 Tribes of Israel.
  • For example, Jacob's son Benjamin is the patriarch of the Tribe of Benjamin. Jacob's son Reuben is the patriarch of the Tribe of Reuben. And so forth.
Well-known descendants of certain Tribes
  • Tribe of Benjamin - King Saul, Paul the apostle [a.k.a. Saul of Tarsus]
  • Tribe of Levi - Moses, Aaron
  • Tribe of Judah - King David, King Solomon, many other kings; Lord Jesus, the Messiah
The Promised Land [Canaan], plus an area on the east side of the Jordan River, was allocated among the 12 Tribes. [Num 33.54; Num 36.3-9]
  • As the priestly Tribe, Levi was given no land. [Num 18.20, 18.24] Instead of land, God gave Levi the tithes of the people of Israel.
  • Jacob's son Joseph had two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim.
  • By Jacob's command [Gen 48.5], Joseph's sons, Manasseh and Ephraim, were regarded as de facto "Tribes" of Israel.
  • Thus, the land allocations of Joseph and Levi were given instead to Ephraim and Manasseh, preserving *twelve* as the number of tribes. [Josh 14.3-4]
There is no such thing as "10 lost tribes of Israel." [Mt 10.6, Acts 26.7, Jam 1.1, Rev 7.1-8; Ezek 37]
Part II Sons of Jacob [Names, Mothers, Birth Verses]
Sons of Jacob
Meaning of Name
Mother
Birth Verse
01-Reuben See, a son Leah So Leah conceived and bore a son, and she called his name Reuben; for she said, "The LORD has surely seen my affliction. Now therefore, my husband will love me." Gen 29.32
02-Simeon Hearing Leah Then she conceived again and bore a son, and said, "Because the LORD has heard that I am unloved, He has therefore given me this son also." And she called his name Simeon. Gen 29.33
03-Levi Joined; attached Leah She conceived again and bore a son, and said, "Now this time my husband will become attached to me, because I have borne him three sons." Therefore his name was called Levi. Gen 29.34
04-Judah Yah be praised Leah And she conceived again and bore a son, and said, "Now I will praise Yahweh." Therefore she called his name Judah. Then she stopped bearing. Gen 29.35
05-Dan Judge Bilhah
(Rachel's servant)		 Then Rachel said, "God has judged my case; and He has also heard my voice and given me a son." Therefore she called his name Dan. Gen 30.6
06-Naphtali My wrestling Bilhah
(Rachel's servant)		 Rachel said, "With great wrestlings I have wrestled with my sister, and indeed I have prevailed." So she called him Naphtali. Gen 30.6
07-Gad Troop; invader;
good fortune		 Zilpah
(Leah's servant)		 Then Leah said, "A troop comes!" So she called his name Gad. Gen 30.11
08-Asher Happy Zilpah
(Leah's servant)		 Then Leah said, "I am happy, for the daughters will call me blessed." So she called his name Asher. Gen 30.13
09-Issachar Man of hire Leah Leah said, "God has given me my hire [wages] because I have given my maid to my husband." So she called his name Issachar. Gen 30.18
10-Zebulun Dwelling Leah Leah said, "...now my husband will dwell with me, because I have borne him six sons." So she called his name Zebulun. Gen 30.20b
11-Joseph Increaser Rachel So she called his name Joseph, and said, "The LORD shall add to me another son." Gen 30.24
12-Benjamin Son of the right hand Rachel As her soul was departing (for she died), she called his name Ben-Oni [son of my sorrow]; but his father called him Ben-Jamin. Gen 35.18

Part III - Prophecies about the 12 Tribes
Sons of Jacob
Jacob's Prophecies
Genesis 49.1-27
Moses' Blessings
Deuteronomy 33.6-25
01-Reuben Reuben, you are my firstborn, My might and the beginning of my strength, The excellency of dignity and the excellency of power. Unstable as water, you shall not excel, Because you went up to your father's bed; Then you defiled it -He went up to my couch. Let Reuben live, and not die, Nor let his men be few.
02-Simeon Simeon and Levi are brothers; Instruments of cruelty are in their dwelling place. Let not my soul enter their council; Let not my honor be united to their assembly; For in their anger they slew a man, And in their self-will they hamstrung an ox. Cursed be their anger, for it is fierce; And their wrath, for it is cruel! I will divide them in Jacob And scatter them in Israel. [Moses makes no mention of Simeon in blessing the tribes of Israel.]
03-Levi Of Levi he said: "Let Your Thummim and Your Urim be with Your holy one, Whom You tested at Massah, And with whom You contended at the waters of Meribah, Who says of his father and mother, 'I have not seen them'; Nor did he acknowledge his brothers, Or know his own children; For they have observed Your word And kept Your covenant. They shall teach Jacob Your judgments, And Israel Your law. They shall put incense before You, And a whole burnt sacrifice on Your altar. Bless his substance, LORD, And accept the work of his hands; Strike the loins of those who rise against him, And of those who hate him, that they rise not again."
04-Judah Judah, you are he whom your brothers shall praise; Your hand shall be on the neck of your enemies; Your father's children shall bow down before you. Judah is a lion's whelp; From the prey, my son, you have gone up. He bows down, he lies down as a lion; And as a lion, who shall rouse him? The scepter shall not depart from Judah, Nor a lawgiver from between his feet, Until Shiloh comes; And to Him shall be the obedience of the people. Binding his donkey to the vine, And his donkey's colt to the choice vine, He washed his garments in wine, And his clothes in the blood of grapes. His eyes are darker than wine, And his teeth whiter than milk. And this he said of Judah: "Hear, LORD, the voice of Judah, And bring him to his people; Let his hands be sufficient for him, And may You be a help against his enemies."
05-Dan Dan shall judge his people As one of the tribes of Israel. Dan shall be a serpent by the way, A viper by the path, That bites the horse's heels So that its rider shall fall backward. I have waited for your salvation, O LORD! And of Dan he said: "Dan is a lion's whelp; He shall leap from Bashan."
06-Naphtali Naphtali is a deer let loose; He uses beautiful words. And of Naphtali he said: "O Naphtali, satisfied with favor, And full of the blessing of the LORD, Possess the west and the south."
07-Gad Gad, a troop shall tramp upon him, But he shall triumph at last. And of Gad he said: "Blessed is he who enlarges Gad; He dwells as a lion, And tears the arm and the crown of his head. He provided the first part for himself, Because a lawgiver's portion was reserved there. He came with the heads of the people; He administered the justice of the LORD, And His judgments with Israel."
08-Asher Bread from Asher shall be rich, And he shall yield royal dainties. And of Asher he said: "Asher is most blessed of sons; Let him be favored by his brothers, And let him dip his foot in oil. Your sandals shall be iron and bronze; As your days, so shall your strength be."
09-Issachar "Issachar is a strong donkey, Lying down between two burdens; He saw that rest was good, And that the land was pleasant; He bowed his shoulder to bear a burden, And became a band of slaves. And of Zebulun he said: "Rejoice, Zebulun, in your going out, And Issachar in your tents! They shall call the peoples to the mountain; There they shall offer sacrifices of righteousness; For they shall partake of the abundance of the seas And of treasures hidden in the sand."
10-Zebulun Zebulun shall dwell by the haven of the sea; He shall become a haven for ships, And his border shall adjoin Sidon.
11-Joseph Joseph is a fruitful bough, A fruitful bough by a well; His branches run over the wall. The archers have bitterly grieved him, Shot at him and hated him. But his bow remained in strength, And the arms of his hands were made strong By the hands of the Mighty God of Jacob (From there is the Shepherd, the Stone of Israel), By the God of your father who will help you, And by the Almighty who will bless you With blessings of heaven above, Blessings of the deep that lies beneath, Blessings of the breasts and of the womb. The blessings of your father Have excelled the blessings of my ancestors, Up to the utmost bound of the everlasting hills. They shall be on the head of Joseph, And on the crown of the head of him who was separate from his brothers. And of Joseph he said: "Blessed of the LORD is his land, With the precious things of heaven, with the dew, And the deep lying beneath, With the precious fruits of the sun, With the precious produce of the months, With the best things of the ancient mountains, With the precious things of the everlasting hills, With the precious things of the earth and its fullness, And the favor of Him who dwelt in the bush. Let the blessing come 'on the head of Joseph, & on the crown of the head of him who was separate from his brothers.' His glory is like a firstborn bull, And his horns like the horns of the wild ox; Together with them He shall push the peoples To the ends of the earth; They are the ten thousands of Ephraim, And they are the thousands of Manasseh."
12-Benjamin Benjamin is a ravenous wolf; In the morning he shall devour the prey, And at night he shall divide the spoil. Of Benjamin he said: "The beloved of the LORD shall dwell in safety by Him, Who shelters him all the day long; And he shall dwell between His shoulders."

Part IV - Marching Order of the Tribes
From Egypt to the Promised Land
Military Organization & Marching Order of Israel
Numbers Chapter 2
North - last to break camp
Dan 62,700 | Asher 41,500
Naphtali 53,400 | Total 157,600
West - 3rd to break camp
Ephraim 40,500 | Manasseh 32200
Benjamin 35,400 | Total 108,100		 Center - Tabernacle of Meeting
Levi unnumbered [Num 2.33]		 East - 1st to break camp
Judah 74,600 | Issachar 54,400
Zebulun 57,400 | Total 186,400
South - 2nd to break camp
Reuben 46,500 | Simeon 59,300
Gad 45,650 | Total 151,450

source: http://www.biblestudy101.org/Lists/12tribes.html
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