Numbers 1:4
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New International Version (©2011)
One man from each tribe, each of them the head of his family, is to help you.

New Living Translation (©2007)
and you will be assisted by one family leader from each tribe.

English Standard Version (©2001)
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.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And with you there shall be a man of every tribe; every one head of the house of his fathers.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
A man from each tribe is to be with you, each one the head of his ancestral house.

International Standard Version (©2012)
One man from each tribe is to accompany you, each man being the leader of his ancestral house.

NET Bible (©2006)
And to help you there is to be a man from each tribe, each man the head of his family.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
One man from each tribe will help you. Each of these men must be the head of a household.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And with you there shall be a man of every tribe; every one head of the house of his fathers.

American King James Version
And with you there shall be a man of every tribe; every one head of the house of his fathers.

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

Douay-Rheims Bible
And there shall be with you the princes of the tribes, and of the houses in their kindreds,

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

English Revised Version
And with you there shall be a man of every tribe; every one 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.

Young's Literal Translation
and with you there is a man for a tribe, each is a head to the house of his fathers.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

1:1-43 The people were numbered to show God's faithfulness in thus increasing the seed of Jacob, that they might be the better trained for the wars and conquest of Canaan, and to ascertain their families in order to the division of the land. It is said of each tribe, that those were numbered who were able to go forth to war; they had wars before them, though now they met with no opposition. Let the believer be prepared to withstand the enemies of his soul, though all may appear to be peace.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 4. - A man of every tribe. The former census, which was for religious purposes only, was made with the assistance of the Levites. This, which was rather for political and military purposes, was supervised by the lay heads of the people.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire 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.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

4-16. 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 being divided into twelve tribes, there were twelve chiefs appointed to assist in taking the census of the people.

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The Census of Israel's Warriors
…2Take you the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel, after their families, by the house of their fathers, with the number of their names, every male by their polls; 3From twenty years old and upward, all that are able to go forth to war in Israel: you and Aaron shall number them by their armies. 4And with you there shall be a man of every tribe; every one head of the house of his fathers.

Exodus 18:21 But select capable men from all the people--men who fear God, trustworthy men who hate dishonest gain--and appoint them as officials over thousands, hundreds, fifties and tens.
Exodus 18:25 He chose capable men from all Israel and made them leaders of the people, officials over thousands, hundreds, fifties and tens.
Numbers 1:16 These were the men appointed from the community, the leaders of their ancestral tribes. They were the heads of the clans of Israel.
Numbers 30:1 Moses said to the heads of the tribes of Israel: "This is what the LORD commands:
Deuteronomy 1:15 So I took the leading men of your tribes, wise and respected men, and appointed them to have authority over you--as commanders of thousands, of hundreds, of fifties and of tens and as tribal officials.
Joshua 22:14 With him they sent ten of the chief men, one from each of the tribes of Israel, each the head of a family division among the Israelite clans.
1 Kings 8:1 Then King Solomon summoned into his presence at Jerusalem the elders of Israel, all the heads of the tribes and the chiefs of the Israelite families, to bring up the ark of the LORD's covenant from Zion, the City of David.