Numbers 1:4
And one man from each tribe, the head of each family, must be there with you.
Berean Standard Bible
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
Cross References
Exodus 18:25So Moses chose capable men from all Israel and made them heads over the people as leaders of thousands, of hundreds, of fifties, and of tens.
Numbers 1:44These were the men numbered by Moses and Aaron, with the assistance of the twelve leaders of Israel, each one representing his family.
Numbers 4:34So Moses, Aaron, and the leaders of the congregation numbered the Kohathites by their clans and families,
Numbers 7:10When the altar was anointed, the leaders approached with their offerings for its dedication and presented them before the altar.
Numbers 13:2“Send out for yourself men to spy out the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the Israelites. From each of their fathers’ tribes send one man who is a leader among them.”
Numbers 25:4Then the LORD said to Moses, “Take all the leaders of the people and execute them in broad daylight before the LORD, so that His fierce anger may turn 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 →