Numbers 1:4
and with you there is a man for a tribe, each is a head of the house of his fathers.
Literal Standard 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
5And these [are] the names of the men who stand with you: for Reuben, Elizur son of Shedeur;
Cross References
Exodus 18:25and Moses chooses men of ability out of all Israel, and makes them chiefs over the people [for] heads of thousands, heads of hundreds, heads of fifties, and heads of tens,
Numbers 1:44These [are] those numbered, whom Moses numbered—Aaron also—and the princes of Israel, twelve men, each one has been [the representative] for the house of his fathers.
Numbers 4:34And Moses numbers—Aaron also, and the princes of the congregation—the sons of the Kohathite, by their families, and by the house of their fathers,
Numbers 7:10And the princes bring the dedication of the altar near in the day of its being anointed, indeed, the princes bring their offering near before the altar.
Numbers 13:2“Send men for yourself, and they spy out the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the sons of Israel; one man—you send one man for the tribe of his fathers, everyone a prince among them.”
Numbers 25:4And YHWH says to Moses, “Take all the chiefs of the people and hang them before YHWH in sight of the sun; and the fierceness of the anger of YHWH turns back 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 →