Numbers 1:16

These were the called ones of the congregation, princes of the tribes of their fathers, chiefs of the thousands of Israel were they.

Targum Onkelos

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 bar Enan.

17And Mosheh and Aharon took these men who were expressed by their names;

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Cross References

Exodus 18:25And Mosheh chose men of ability from all Israel, and appointed them heads over the people; chiefs of thousands, chiefs of hundreds, chiefs of fifties, and chiefs of tens;

Numbers 2:3Over against the tabernacle of ordinance shall they encamp round about. The standard of the camp of Jehudah shall they pitch, according to their hosts, eastward toward the sunrise: and the chief of the sons of Jehudah is Nachshon bar Aminadab.

Numbers 7:10And the princes offered at the dedication ( chanucha) of the altar on the day that they anointed it, and the princes presented their oblations before the altar.

Numbers 10:14In the first place the standard of the camp of the Beni Jehudah went forward by their hosts; and over the host was Nachshon bar Aminadab.

Numbers 16:2And they rose up in the presence of Mosheh with (other) men of the sons of Israel, two hundred and fifty, chiefs of the congregation, who at the time of the convocation had been men of name.

Deuteronomy 1:15And I took the heads of your tribes, wise men and masters of knowledge, and appointed them chiefs over you, captains of thousands, of hundreds, of fifties, and of tens, and officers of 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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