These are those who were called of the congregation, the princes† of the tribes of their fathers; they were the heads of the thousands of Israel.
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
Numbers 1:16 in context
Numbers 1:13–19
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Of Asher: Pagiel the son of Ochran.
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Of Gad: Eliasaph the son of Deuel.
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Of Naphtali: Ahira the son of Enan.”
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These are those who were called of the congregation, the princes† of the tribes of their fathers; they were the heads of the thousands of Israel.
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Moses and Aaron took these men who are mentioned by name.
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They assembled all the congregation together on the first day of the second month; and they declared their ancestry by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, one by one.
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As the LORD commanded Moses, so he counted them in the wilderness of Sinai.
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- or, chiefs, or, leaders
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