Numbers 1:13
Of Aser, Phagaiel the son of Echran.
Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
Of Asher; Pagiel the son of Ocran.
In Context
12Of Dan, Achiezer the son of Amisadai.
14Of Gad, Elisaph the son of Raguel.
Cross References
Numbers 2:27And they that encamp next to him shall be the tribe of Aser; and the prince of the sons of Aser, Phagiel the son of Echran.
Numbers 10:26And over the forces of the tribe of the sons of Aser, was Phageel the son of Echran.
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 →