Numbers 1:4
What does Numbers 1:4 mean?
A plain-English look at Numbers 1:4 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000And with you there shall be a man of every tribe; every one head of his fathers’ house.
KJV
King James Version · 1611And with you there shall be a man of every tribe; every one head of the house of his fathers.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901And with you there shall be a man of every tribe; every one head of his fathers’ house.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949And to give you help, take one man from every tribe, the head of his father's house.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862and with you there is a man for a tribe, each is a head to the house of his fathers.
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752And there shall be with you the princes of the tribes, and of the houses in their kindreds,
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890And with you there shall be a man for every tribe, a man who is the head of his father's house.
Context
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Numbers 13:2
Send thou men, that they may spy out the land of Canaan, which I give unto the children of Israel: of every tribe of their fathers shall ye send a man, every one a prince among them.
- 1 Chronicles 27:1
Now the children of Israel after their number, to wit, the heads of fathers’housesand the captains of thousands and of hundreds, and their officers that served the king, in any matter of the courses which came in and went out month by month throughout all the months of the year—of every course were twenty and four thousand.
- Deuteronomy 1:15
So I took the heads of your tribes, wise men, and known, and made them heads over you, captains of thousands, and captains of hundreds, and captains of fifties, and captains of tens, and officers, according to your tribes.
- Numbers 25:4
And Jehovah said unto Moses, Take all the chiefs of the people, and hang them up unto Jehovah before the sun, that the fierce anger of Jehovah may turn away from Israel.
- Numbers 25:14
Now the name of the man of Israel that was slain, who was slain with the Midianitish woman, was Zimri, the son of Salu, a prince of a fathers’ house among the Simeonites.
- Numbers 10:14
And in the first place the standard of the camp of the children of Judah set forward according to their hosts: and over his host was Nahshon the son of Amminadab.
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