Numbers 7:2
Good News Translation
Then the clan chiefs who were leaders in the tribes of Israel, the same men who were in charge of the census,

New Revised Standard Version
the leaders of Israel, heads of their ancestral houses, the leaders of the tribes, who were over those who were enrolled, made offerings.

Contemporary English Version
Then the twelve tribal leaders of Israel, the same men who had been in charge of counting the people, came to the tent

New American Bible
an offering was made by the tribal leaders of Israel, who were heads of ancestral houses, the same leaders of the tribes who supervised those enrolled.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The princes of Israel and the heads of the families, in every tribe, who were the rulers of them who had been numbered, offered

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The princes of Israel and the heads of the families, in every tribe, who were the rulers of them who had been numbered, offered

the princes

Numbers 1:4-16 And there shall be with you the princes of the tribes, and of the houses in their kindreds, . . .

Numbers 2:1 And the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying:

Numbers 10:1 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

and were over, etc.

Exodus 35:27 But the princes offered onyx stones, and precious stones, for the ephod and the rational,

1 Chronicles 29:6-8 Then the heads of the families, and the princes of the tribes of Israel and the captains of thousands, and of hundreds, and the overseers of the king's possessions promised, . . .

2 Chronicles 35:8 And his princes willingly offered what they had vowed, both to the people and to the priests and the Levites. Moreover Helcias, and Zacharias, and Jahiel rulers of the house of the Lord, gave to the priests to keep the phase two thousand six hundred small cattle, and three hundred oxen.

Ezra 2:68,69 And some of the chief of the fathers, when they came to the temple of the Lord, which is in Jerusalem, offered freely to the house of the Lord to build it in its place. . . .

Nehemiah 7:70-72 And some of the heads of the families gave unto the work. Athersatha gave into the treasure a thousand drams of gold, fifty bowls, and five hundred and thirty garments for priests. . . .

Context
Offerings of Dedication
1And it came to pass in the day that Moses had finished the tabernacle, and set it up, and had anointed and sanctified it with all its vessels, the altar likewise and all the vessels thereof, 2The princes of Israel and the heads of the families, in every tribe, who were the rulers of them who had been numbered, offered3Their gifts before the Lord, six wagons covered, and twelve oxen. Two princes offered one wagon, and each one an ox, and they offered them before the tabernacle.…
Cross References
Numbers 1:5
Whose names are these: Of Ruben, Elisur the son of Sedeur.

Numbers 1:16
These are the most noble princes of the multitude by their tribes and kindreds, and the chiefs of the army of Israel:

Numbers 10:4
If thou sound but once, the princes and the heads of the multitude of Israel shall come to thee.

Numbers 30:1
And he said to the princes of the tribes of the children of Israel: This is the word that the Lord hath commanded:

1 Kings 8:1
Then all the ancients of Israel, with the princes of the tribes, and the heads of the families of the children of Israel, were assembled to king Solomon, in Jerusalem: that they might carry the ark of the covenant of the Lord, out of the city of David, that is, out of Sion.

2 Chronicles 35:8
And his princes willingly offered what they had vowed, both to the people and to the priests and the Levites. Moreover Helcias, and Zacharias, and Jahiel rulers of the house of the Lord, gave to the priests to keep the phase two thousand six hundred small cattle, and three hundred oxen.

Numbers 7:1
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