Numbers 1:4

and with you, shall be one man for each tribe,—each man, head of his ancestral house, shall be.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

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 twenty years old and upwards, every one able to go forth to war in Israel,—ye shall number them by their hosts, thou and Aaron;

5These, then, are the names of the men who shall stand with you,—Of Reuben, Elizur, son of Shedeur;

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Cross References

Exodus 18:25and Moses chose men of ability out of all Israel, and set them to be heads over the people,—rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.

Numbers 1:44These, are they who were numbered, whom Moses and Aaron and the twelve princes of Israel did number, the princes acting each one for his ancestral house.

Numbers 4:34Then did Moses and Aaron, and the princes of the assembly, number the sons of the Kohathites, by their families, and by their ancestral house;

Numbers 7:10So then the princes offered for the dedication of the altar, on the day it was anointed,—yea the princes offered their oblation before the altar,

Numbers 13:2Send for thee men and let them spy out the land of Canaan, which I am giving unto the sons of Israel,—one man each for the tribe of his fathers, shalt thou send, each one a prince among them.

Numbers 25:4And Yahweh said unto Moses—Take all the heads of the people, and crucify them unto Yahweh. in the face of the sun,—that the heat of the anger of Yahweh 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 →

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