Numbers 1:4
And to give you help, take one man from every tribe, the head of his father's house.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
And with you there shall be a man of every tribe; every one head of the house of his fathers.
In Context
5These are the names of those who are to be your helpers: from Reuben, Elizur, the son of Shedeur;
Cross References
Exodus 18:25And he made selection of able men out of all Israel, and made them heads over the people, captains of thousands, captains of hundreds and of fifties and of tens.
Numbers 1:44These are they who were numbered by Moses and Aaron and by the twelve chiefs of Israel, one from every tribe.
Numbers 4:34So Moses and Aaron and the chiefs of the people took in hand the numbering of the sons of the Kohathites, by families, in the order of their fathers' houses;
Numbers 7:10And the chiefs gave an offering for the altar on the day when the holy oil was put on it; they made their offering before the altar.
Numbers 13:2Send men to get knowledge about the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the children of Israel; from every tribe of their fathers you are to send a man, every one a chief among them.
Numbers 25:4Then the Lord said to Moses, Take all the chiefs of the people, hanging them up in the sun before the Lord, so that the wrath of the Lord may be turned from Israel.
Matthew Henry on Numbers 1:2-17
Numbers The titles of the five books of Moses, which we use in our Bibles, are all borrowed from the Greek translation of the Seventy, the most ancient version of the Old Testament that we know of. But the title of this book only we turn into English; in all the rest we retain the Greek word itself, for which difference I know no reason but that the Latin translators have generally done the same. Otherwise this book might as well have been called Arithmoi, the Greek title, as the first Genesis, and the second… Read the whole commentary →