Numbers 1:4

and with you there is a man for a tribe, each is a head to the house of his fathers.

Young's Literal Translation

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 upward, every one going out to the host in Israel, ye do number them by their hosts, thou and Aaron;

5'And these [are] the names of the men who stand with you: 'For Reuben — Elizur son of Shedeur.

Read all of Numbers 1

Cross References

Exodus 18:25and Moses chooseth men of ability out of all Israel, and maketh them chiefs over the people, heads of thousands, heads of hundreds, heads of fifties, and heads of tens,

Numbers 1:44These [are] those numbered, whom Moses numbered — Aaron also, and the princes of Israel, twelve men — each for the house of his fathers, they have been.

Numbers 4:34And Moses numbereth — Aaron also, and the princes of the company — the sons of the Kohathite, by their families, and by the house of their fathers,

Numbers 7:10And the princes bring near the dedication of the altar in the day of its being anointed; yea, the princes bring near their offering before the altar.

Numbers 13:2'Send for thee men, and they spy the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the sons of Israel; one man, one man for the tribe of his fathers ye do send, every one a prince among them.'

Numbers 25:4And Jehovah saith unto Moses, 'Take all the chiefs of the people, and hang them before Jehovah — over-against the sun; and the fierceness of the anger of Jehovah doth turn back 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 →

This Verse In Other Editions

Study Numbers 1:4