Numbers 1:4

And with you let there be a man of each tribe, a man who is chief of the house of his fathers.

Targum Onkelos

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 a son of twenty years and upwards, everyone who can go forth to war in Israel, thou and Aharon number them by their hosts.

5And these are the names of the men who shall stand with you. Of Reuben, Elizur bar Shedeur;

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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 1:44These were the numbered ones whom Mosheh and Aharon, and the twelve men, the princes of Israel, did number, severally, according to the house of their fathers.

Numbers 4:34And Mosheh and Aharon and the chiefs of the congregation numbered the sons of Kehath, by their families, and by the house of their fathers;

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 13:2Send thou men, that they may explore the land of Kenaan, which I will give to the children of Israel: one man for each tribe of their fathers shall you send, each one a ruler among them.

Numbers 25:4And the Lord said unto Mosheh: Take all the chiefs of the people, and judge, and slay him who is guilty of death before the Lord, over against 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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