New American Standard Bible 2020
Numbers 1:4
Numbers 1:4 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)And with you there shall be a man of every tribe; every one head of the house of his fathers.
- New International Version (NIV)One man from each tribe, each of them the head of his family, is to help you.
- English Standard Version (ESV)And there shall be with you a man from each tribe, each man being the head of the house of his fathers.
- New King James Version (NKJV)And with you there shall be a man from every tribe, each one the head of his father’s house.
Context of Numbers 1:4
2“Take a census of all the congregation of the sons of Israel, by their families, by their fathers’ households, according to the number of names, every male, head by head 3from twenty years old and upward, whoever is able to go to war in Israel. You and Aaron shall count them by their armies. With you, moreover, there shall be a man of each tribe, each one head of his father’s household. 5These then are the names of the men who shall stand with you: of the tribe of Reuben, Elizur the son of Shedeur; 6of the tribe of Simeon, Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai;
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וְאִתְּכֶ֣ם יִהְי֔וּ אִ֥ישׁ אִ֖ישׁ לַמַּטֶּ֑ה אִ֛ישׁ רֹ֥אשׁ לְבֵית־אֲבֹתָ֖יו הֽוּא׃Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Numbers 1:4
- Numbers 1:16These are the men who were called from the congregation, the leaders of their fathers’ tribes; they were the heads of divisions of Israel.”
- Numbers 2:3Now those who camp on the east side toward the sunrise shall be of the flag of the camp of Judah, by their armies; and the leader of the sons of Judah: Nahshon the son of Amminadab,
- Numbers 7:10And the leaders offered the dedication offering for the altar when it was anointed, so the leaders offered their offering before the altar.
- Numbers 10:14The flag of the camp of the sons of Judah, by their armies, set out first, with Nahshon the son of Amminadab, over its army,
- Numbers 13:2“Send out men for yourself to spy out the land of Canaan, which I am going to give the sons of Israel; you shall send a man from each of their fathers’ tribes, every one a leader among them.”
- Numbers 17:3and write Aaron’s name on the staff of Levi; for there is to be one staff for the head of each of their fathers’ households.
- Numbers 25:4And the Lord said to Moses, “Take all the leaders of the people and execute them in broad daylight before the Lord, so that the fierce anger of the Lord may turn away from Israel.”
- Numbers 34:18And you shall take one leader of each tribe to assign the land as an inheritance.
- Exodus 18:25Moses chose able men out of all Israel and made them heads over the people, leaders of thousands, of hundreds, of fifties, and of tens.
- Joshua 22:14and with him ten leaders, one leader for each father’s household from each of the tribes of Israel; and each one of them was the head of his father’s household among the thousands of Israel.
- 1 Chronicles 27:1Now this is the number of the sons of Israel, the heads of fathers’ households, the commanders of thousands and of hundreds, and their officers who served the king in all the affairs of the divisions which came in and went out month by month throughout the months of the year, each division numbering twenty-four thousand:
Commentaries on Numbers 1:4
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 1-4Verses 1-4 A month had passed away since the setting up of the tabernacle Exodus 40:2, Exodus 40:17: and the Sinaitic legislation was now complete (compare Leviticus 27:34). A census (“sum”) was commanded, to be based not upon any fresh registration of individuals, but upon that which had accompanied the previous collection of the offerings. Compare Exodus 30:11, etc.; Exodus 38:25-28. The offerings had been probably tendered by the people in groups, and…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 1-4The Israelites got ready to leave for the promised land by listing all troops who could join the conquest. The nation was changing from slavery to becoming a nation.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 4-164-16. with you there shall be a man of every tribe, &c.--The social condition of the Israelites in the wilderness bore a close resemblance to that of the nomad tribes of the East in the present day. The head of the tribe was a hereditary dignity, vested in the oldest son or some other to whom the right of primogeniture was transferred, and under whom were other inferior heads, also hereditary, among the different branches of the tribe. The Israelites…Read the comment
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Commentaries on Numbers 1
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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