לִבְנֵ֣י גָ֔ד תּוֹלְדֹתָ֥ם לְמִשְׁפְּחֹתָ֖ם לְבֵ֣ית אֲבֹתָ֑ם בְּמִסְפַּ֣ר שֵׁמ֗וֹת מִבֶּ֨ן עֶשְׂרִ֤ים שָׁנָה֙ וָמַ֔עְלָה כֹּ֖ל יֹצֵ֥א צָבָֽא׃
Pour les descendants de Gad, classés selon leur origine, leurs familles, leurs maisons paternelles: d’après le compte nominal de tous les hommes âgés de vingt ans et plus, aptes au service,
Rabbeinu Bahya
According to a Midrash the words נפש חיה actually refer to a variety of souls, seeing that the verse continues נפש חיה למינה, בהמה ורמש וחיתו ארץ למינה. In other words not just one kind of נפש. When the Torah continues in the next verse to describe that G’d (as opposed to earth) “made the wild beasts according to its kind, the domesticated animals according to its category and the creeping things according to their respective categories,” this verse talks about the bodies of these respective species only. The meaning of this Midrash is that the word נפש חיה in verse 24 refers to the collective life-force of the animal world. When the Torah speaks in verse twenty-five about what G’d made, this is a reference to the bodies seeing that in that verse no mention is made of the words נפש חיה .