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Myles Coverdale Bible

Numbers 1:4

and of euery trybe ye shal take vnto you one captayne ouer his fathers house.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Government;   Israel;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Desert, Journey of Israel through the;   Tribes of Israel, the;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Agag;   Canaan;   Jazer;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Sexuality, Human;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Nahshon;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Numbers, Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Moses;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Census;   Poll;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Events of the Encampment;   Last Days at Sinai;   On to Canaan;   Moses, the Man of God;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Genealogy;   Hafṭarah;   Sidra;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
With you there shall be a man of every tribe; everyone head of his fathers' house.
King James Version
And with you there shall be a man of every tribe; every one head of the house of his fathers.
Lexham English Bible
A man from each tribe will be with you, each man the head of his family.
New Century Version
One man from each tribe, the leader of his family, will help you.
New English Translation
And to help you there is to be a man from each tribe, each man the head of his family.
Amplified Bible
"And with you there shall be a man [to assist you] from each tribe, each being the head of his father's household.
New American Standard Bible
"With you, moreover, there shall be a man of each tribe, each one head of his father's household.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And with you shalbe men of euery tribe, such as are the heads of the house of their fathers.
Legacy Standard Bible
With you, moreover, there shall be a man of each tribe, each one head of his father's household.
Contemporary English Version
The following twelve family leaders, one from each tribe, will help you: Elizur son of Shedeur from Reuben, Shelumiel son of Zurishaddai from Simeon, Nahshon son of Amminadab from Judah, Nethanel son of Zuar from Issachar, Eliab son of Helon from Zebulun, Elishama son of Ammihud from Ephraim, Gamaliel son of Pedahzur from Manasseh, Abidan son of Gideoni from Benjamin, Ahiezer son of Ammishaddai from Dan, Pagiel son of Ochran from Asher, Eliasaph son of Deuel from Gad, and Ahira son of Enan from Naphtali.
Complete Jewish Bible
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Darby Translation
And with you there shall be a man for every tribe, a man who is the head of his father's house.
Easy-to-Read Version
One man from each tribe will help you. This man will be the leader of his tribe.
English Standard Version
And there shall be with you a man from each tribe, each man being the head of the house of his fathers.
George Lamsa Translation
And with you there shall be a man of every tribe; every one the head of the house of his fathers.
Good News Translation
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Christian Standard Bible®
A man from each tribe is to be with you, each one the head of his ancestral family.
Literal Translation
And there shall be a man of every tribe with you, every one head of his father's house.
American Standard Version
And with you there shall be a man of every tribe; every one head of his fathers' house.
Bible in Basic English
And to give you help, take one man from every tribe, the head of his father's house.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And with you shalbe men of euery tribe, such [as are] the heades of the houses of their fathers.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And with you there shall be a man of every tribe, every one head of his fathers' house.
King James Version (1611)
And with you there shalbe a man of euery Tribe: euery one head of the house of his fathers.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And with you there shall be each one of the rulers according to the tribe of each: they shall be according to the houses of their families.
English Revised Version
And with you there shall be a man of every tribe; every one head of his fathers' house.
Berean Standard Bible
And one man from each tribe, the head of each family, must be there with you.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And the princes of lynagis and of housis, in her kynredis, schulen be with you,
Young's Literal Translation
and with you there is a man for a tribe, each is a head to the house of his fathers.
Update Bible Version
And with you there shall be a man of each tribe; [each] man head of his fathers' house.
Webster's Bible Translation
And with you there shall be a man of every tribe; every one head of the house of his fathers.
World English Bible
With you there shall be a man of every tribe; everyone head of his fathers' house.
New King James Version
And with you there shall be a man from every tribe, each one the head of his father's house.
New Living Translation
and you will be assisted by one family leader from each tribe.
New Life Bible
A man from each family should be with you to help you. Each one should be the head of his father's house.
New Revised Standard
A man from each tribe shall be with you, each man the head of his ancestral house.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
and with you, shall be one man for each tribe, - each man, head of his ancestral house, shall be.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And there shall be with you the princes of the tribes, and of the houses in their kindreds,
Revised Standard Version
And there shall be with you a man from each tribe, each man being the head of the house of his fathers.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"With you, moreover, there shall be a man of each tribe, each one head of his father's household.

Contextual Overview

1 And the LORDE spake vnto Moses in ye wyldernesse of Sinai, in the Tabernacle of witnesse, the first daye of the secode moneth in the seconde yeare, wha they were gone out of the lade of Egipte, and sayde: 2 Take ye summe of the whole congregacion of the children of Israel, after their kynredes & their fathers houses, with the nombre of the names, all that are males, heade by heade, 3 fro twentye yeare and aboue, as many as are able to go forth in to ye warre in Israel. And ye shal nombre them acordinge to their armyes thou and Aaron, 4 and of euery trybe ye shal take vnto you one captayne ouer his fathers house. 5 These are the names of the captaynes that shal stonde with you. Of Ruben, Elizur the sonne of Sedeur. 6 Of Simeon, Selumiel the sonne of Zuri Sadai. 7 Of Iuda, Nahasson the sonne of Aminadab. 8 Of Isachar, Nathaneel the sonne of Zuar. 9 Of Zabulon, Eliab the sonne of Helon. 10 Amonge the children of Ioseph: Of Ephraim, Elisama ye sonne of Amihud. Of Manasse, Gamaliel the sonne of Pedazur.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Numbers 1:16, Numbers 2:3-31, Numbers 7:10-83, Numbers 10:14-27, Numbers 13:2-15, Numbers 17:3, Numbers 25:4, Numbers 25:14, Numbers 34:18-28, Exodus 18:25, Joshua 22:14, 1 Chronicles 27:1-22

Reciprocal: Leviticus 4:22 - a ruler hath sinned Numbers 7:2 - the princes Numbers 10:4 - General Numbers 30:1 - General Joshua 4:2 - twelve men Joshua 18:4 - three 1 Chronicles 23:24 - after the house Revelation 7:5 - tribe of Juda

Cross-References

Genesis 1:10
And God called ye drye londe, Earth: and the gatheringe together of waters called he, ye See. And God sawe yt it was good.
Genesis 1:12
And the earth brought forth grene grasse and herbe, yt beareth sede euery one after his kynde, & trees bearinge frute, & hauynge their owne sede in them selues, euery one after his kynde. And God sawe that it was good.
Genesis 1:18
and to rule the daye and the night, and to deuyde the light from darcknes. And God sawe that it was good.
Genesis 1:25
And God made ye beastes of the earth euery one after his kynde, and catell after their kynde, and all maner wormes of the earth after their kynde. And God sawe that it was good.
Genesis 1:31
And God behelde all yt he had made, and lo, they were exceadinge good. Then of the euenynge and mornynge was made the sixte daye.
Ecclesiastes 2:13
and I sawe, that wy?dome excelleth foolishnesse, as farre as light doth darknesse.
Ecclesiastes 11:7
The light is swete, & a pleasaunt thinge is it for the eyes to loke vpon the Sonne.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And with you there shall be a man of every tribe,.... Excepting Levi, of which Moses and Aaron were, to assist in taking the account, and to see that it was an exact and perfect one:

everyone head of the house of his fathers; and prince of the tribe he belonged to, as appears from Numbers 1:16 and Numbers 7:2, where an account is given of the same persons as princes of the tribes that offered at the dedication of the altar, who here assisted in the taking this account; the Targum of Jonathan calls them each a prince, as Prince Elizur, &c.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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 if certificates of registration were furnished to such groups, the new census might be easily carried out by means of these documents, and got through Numbers 1:18 in a single day. The present registration enrolled persons “after their families, by the house of their fathers;” and was superintended not by the Levites (see Exodus 38:21 and note), but by Numbers 1:4 an assessor for each tribe to act in the business with Moses and Aaron. The purpose now in view was not religious only. The census now taken would serve as a basis for various civil and military arrangements.


 
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