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Ahira

Numb. i. 29.AHIRA, the Son of Enan, Chief of the Tribe of Naphtali. He went out of Egypt at the head of his Tribe, composed of fifty three thousand and four hundred Men, all above twenty years of age, and capable of bearing arms, without reckoning old Men, Women, and Children. He was the twelfth Person that made his offering when the Tabernacle was erected in the Num. vii. 78. In the Year of the World 2514, before J.C. 1486, before the vulgar Æra 1490.Desart; and he offer’d a silver bason, weighing an hundred and thirty shekels, and a silver bowl of seventy shekels, both of them full of fine flower, mingled with oil, for a Meat-offering; a golden Spoon of ten shekels, full of Incense; a young bullock, a ram, and a lamb of the first year, for a Burnt-offering; a kid for a Sin-offering; two oxen, five rams, five he goats, and five lambs of the first year, for a Peace-offering.

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