Numbers 1:4
A representative from each tribe, the head of a family, must be there with you.
Free Bible Version
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 competent men from all of Israel and put them in charge of the people as leaders of thousands, hundreds, fifties, and tens.
Numbers 1:44These were the totals of the men counted and registered by Moses and Aaron, with the help of the twelve leaders of Israel, who each represented their family.
Numbers 4:34Moses, Aaron, and the Israelite leaders registered the families of Kohath according to their family and father's line.
Numbers 7:10The day the altar was anointed, the leaders came forward with their dedicatory offerings, presenting them in front of it.
Numbers 13:2“Send some men to explore the land of Canaan, the country I'm giving to the Israelites. Choose one of the leaders from each of the tribes to go and do this.”
Numbers 25:4The Lord told Moses, “Arrest all the Israelite leaders and kill them before the Lord where everyone can see in order to turn the Lord's furious anger away from the people.”
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 →