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Ge 47:2 King James And he took some of his brethren, even five men, and presented them unto Pharaoh.

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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
he took some of his brethren--probably the five eldest brothers: seniority being the least invidious principle of selection.
 
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2 And the children of Dan sent of their family five men from their coasts, men of valour, from Zorah, and from Eshtaol, to spy out the land, and to search it; and they said unto them, Go, search the land: who when they came to mount Ephraim, to the house of Micah, they lodged there.