Text -- Numbers 1:4 (NET)

1:4 And to help you there is to be a man from each tribe, each man the head of his family.

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Num 1:4

¹ tn Heb “and with you.”

² tn The construction uses the noun in a distributive sense: “a man, a man for a tribe,” meaning a man for each tribe.

³ tn The clause expresses a distributive function, “a man” means “each man.”

⁴ sn See J. R. Bartlett, “The Use of the Word ראשׁ as a Title in the Old Testament,” VT 19 (1969): 1-10.

⁵ tn Heb “the house of his fathers.”