Numbers 1:4
A man from each tribe, a clan head, must serve with you as his tribe's leader. Each leader must lead the men who will fight for his tribe.
Unlocked Literal Bible
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
Cross References
Exodus 18:25Moses chose capable men from all Israel and made them heads over the people, leaders in charge of thousands, hundreds, fifties, and tens.
Numbers 1:44Moses and Aaron counted all these men, together with the twelve men who were leading the twelve tribes of Israel.
Numbers 4:34Moses and Aaron and the leaders of the community counted the descendants of the Kohathites by the clans of their ancestor's families.
Numbers 7:10The leaders offered their goods for the dedication of the altar on the day that Moses anointed the altar. The leaders offered their sacrifices in front of the altar.
Numbers 13:2“Send some men to examine the land of Canaan, which I have given to the people of Israel. Send a man from every tribe of their ancestors. Each man must be a leader among them.”
Numbers 25:4Yahweh said to Moses, “Kill all the leaders of the people and hang them up before me to expose them in the daylight, so that my fierce anger may turn 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 →