Numbers 1:16

These were the selected of the congregation, the princes of the tribes of their fathers; the heads of the thousands of Israel were they.

Leeser Tanakh

In The King James Version

These were the renowned of the congregation, princes of the tribes of their fathers, heads of thousands in Israel.

In Context

15Of Naphtali: Achira the son of 'Enan.

17And Moses and Aaron took these men who are expressed by name:

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Cross References

Exodus 18:25And Moses chose able men out of all Israel, and placed them as heads over the people, rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.

Numbers 2:3And they, who encamp on the east, toward the rising of the sun, shall be [those who belong to] the standard of the camp of Judah according to their armies: and the prince of the children of Judah shall be Nachshon the son of 'Amminadab.

Numbers 7:10The princes also offered for the dedicating of the altar on the day that it was anointed; and the princes presented their offering before the altar.

Numbers 10:14And the standard of the camp of the children of Judah set forward at the first, according to their armies: and over their host was Nachshon the son of 'Amminadab.

Numbers 16:2So that they rose up before Moses, with certain men of the children of Israel, in number two hundred and fifty; [who were] princes of the congregation, called to the assembly, men of renown.

Deuteronomy 1:15And I took the chiefs of your tribes, wise and known men, and I set them as heads over you, captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, and captains over fifties, and captains over tens, and as officers for your tribes.

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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