Numbers 1:4

And with you there shall be one man each of every tribe; a man who is the head of his family division.

Leeser Tanakh

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 upward, all that are able to go forth to war in Israel: these shall ye number according to their armies, thou and Aaron.

5And these are the names of the men that shall stand with you; of Reuben: Elizur the son of Shedeur.

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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 1:44These are those that were numbered, whom Moses numbered with Aaron, and the princes of Israel, being twelve men; one man each for his family division were they.

Numbers 4:34And Moses with Aaron and the princes of the congregation numbered the sons of the Kehathites after their families, and after their divisions,

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 13:2Send thou out some men that they may spy out the land of Canaan, which I give unto the children of Israel: one man each of every tribe of their fathers shall ye send, every one who is a prince among them.

Numbers 25:4And the Lord said unto Moses, Take all the heads of the people, and [cause them to] hang the [guilty] up before the Lord, in the face of the sun, that the fierce anger of the Lord 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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