Numbers 1:4

“And with you there shall be a man of every tribe; every one head of the house of his fathers.”

King James Version (KJV)

Other Translations

And with you there shalbe a man of euery Tribe: euery one head of the house of his fathers.
- King James Version (1611) - View 1611 Bible Scan

"With you, moreover, there shall be a man of each tribe, each one head of his father's household.
- New American Standard Version (1995)

And with you there shall be a man of every tribe; every one head of his fathers' house.
- American Standard Version (1901)

And to give you help, take one man from every tribe, the head of his father's house.
- Basic English Bible

And with you there shall be a man for every tribe, a man who is the head of his father's house.
- Darby Bible

And with you there shall be a man of every tribe; every one head of the house of his fathers.
- Webster's Bible

With you there shall be a man of every tribe; everyone head of his fathers' house.
- World English Bible

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

And with you there shall be a man of every tribe, every one head of his fathers' house.
- Jewish Publication Society Bible

Bible commentary

Wesley's Notes for Numbers 1:4


1:2 Take the sum - This is not the same muster with that #Exo 38:26|, as plainly appears, because that was before the building of the tabernacle, which was built and set up on the first day of the first month, #Exo 40:2|, but this was after it, on the first day of the second month. And they were for different ends; that was to tax them for the charges of the tabernacle; but this was for other ends, partly that the great number of the people might be known to the praise of God's faithfulness, in making good his promises of multiplying them, and to their own encouragement: partly for the better ordering their camp and march, for they were now beginning their journey; and partly that this account might he compared with the other in the close of the book, where we read that not one of all this vast number, except Caleb and Joshua were left alive; a fair warning to all future generations to take heed of rebelling against the Lord. It is true, the sums and numbers agree in this and that computation, which is not strange, because there was not much time between the two numberings, and no eminent sin among the people in that interval, whereby God was provoked to diminish their numbers. Some conceive that in that number, #Exo 30:11 |- 16 and 38:25,26, the Levites were included, which are here excepted, #Num 1:47|, and that in that interval of time, there were grown up as many more men of those years as there were Levites of the same age. Israel - So the strangers mixed with them, were not numbered. Their fathers - The people were divided into twelve tribes, the tribes into great families, #Num 26:5|, these great families into lesser families called the houses of their fathers, because they were distinguished one from another by their fathers.

1:5 Reuben - The tribes are here numbered according to the order or quality of their birth, first the children of Leah, then of Rachel, and then of the handmaids.


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