Numbers 1:5
And these are the names of the men who shall stand with you. Of Reuben, Elizur bar Shedeur;
Targum Onkelos
In The King James Version
In Context
4And with you let there be a man of each tribe, a man who is chief of the house of his fathers.
6of Shemeon, Shelumiel bar Zuri-Shaddai;
Cross References
Genesis 29:32And Leah conceived and bare a son, and she called his name Reuben; for she said, Because my affliction was manifest before the Lord; for now will my husband love me.
Genesis 35:17And as she travailed in her labour, the midwife said to her, Fear not, for also this to thee is a son.
Genesis 35:23The sons of Leah, the firstborn of Jakob, Reuben, and Shemeon, and Levi, and Jehudah, and Issakar, and Zebulon.
Genesis 49:1And Jacob called his sons, and said, Gather together, and I will show you what will befall you in the end of the days;
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 7:12And he who offered his oblation on the first day was Nachshon bar Aminadab, of the tribe of Jehudah:
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 →