Shall pitch by his own standard. We are not told how they had pitched hitherto; the tribal and family order now enforced was the natural order, but in the absence of precise directions would sometimes be departed from.
With the ensign. Rather, "ensigns" (othoth in the plural). Each tribe, it would seem (see Numbers 2:31), had its standard (degel), and each family in the tribe its ensign (oth). Far off. Rather, "over against," i.
e; facing the tabernacle, with a certain space between.