Numbers 1:4

And there shall be with you the princes of the tribes, and of the houses in their kindreds,

Douay-Rheims 1899

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

3From twenty years old and upwards, of all the men of Israel fit for war, and you shall number them by their troops, thou and Aaron.

5Whose names are these: Of Ruben, Elisur the son of Sedeur.

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Cross References

Exodus 18:25And choosing able men out of all Israel, he appointed them rulers of the people, rulers over thousands, and over hundreds, and over fifties, and over tens.

Numbers 1:44These era they who were numbered by Moses and Aaron, and the twelve princes of Israel, every one by the houses of their kindreds.

Numbers 4:34So Moses and Aaron and the princes of the synagogue reckoned up the sons of Caath, by their kindreds and the houses of their fathers,

Numbers 7:10But to the sons of Caath he gave no wagons or oxen: because they serve in the sanctuary and carry their burdens upon their own shoulders.

Numbers 13:2And there the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

Numbers 25:4Said to Moses: Take all the princes of the people, and hang them up on gibbets against the sun: that my fury may be turned away 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 →

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