Numbers 1:4

1:4 And to help you ¹  there is to be a man from each ²  tribe, each man ³  the head ⁴  of his family. ⁵ 

Numbers 3:15

3:15 “Number the Levites by their clans ⁶  and their families; every male from a month old and upward you are to number.” ⁷ 

Numbers 3:20

3:20 The sons of Merari by their families were Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites by their clans.

Numbers 3:30

3:30 Now the leader of the clan of the families of the Kohathites was Elizaphan son of Uzziel.

Numbers 4:2

4:2 “Take a census ⁸  of the Kohathites from among the Levites, by their families and by their clans,

Numbers 4:22

4:22 “Also take a census of the Gershonites, by their clans and by their families.

Numbers 4:29

The Service of the Merarites

4:29 “As for the sons of Merari, you are to number them by their families and by their clans.

Numbers 4:34

Summary

4:34 So Moses and Aaron and the leaders of the community numbered the Kohathites by their families and by clans,

Numbers 4:42

4:42 Those numbered from the families of the Merarites, by their families, by their clans,

Numbers 4:46

4:46 All who were numbered of the Levites, whom Moses, Aaron, and the leaders of Israel numbered by their families and by their clans,

Numbers 36:11

36:11 For the daughters of Zelophehad – Mahlah, Tirzah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Noah – were married to the sons of their uncles. ⁹ 

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.”

⁶ tn Heb “the house of their fathers.” So also in v. 20.

⁷ tn Heb “you are to/shall number them.”

¹¹ tn Heb “lift up the head.” The form נָשֹׂא (naso’) is the Qal infinitive absolute functioning here as a pure verb form. This serves to emphasize the basic verbal root idea (see GKC 346 §113.bb).

¹⁶ tn They married in the family as they were instructed. But the meaning of דּוֹד (dod) is not necessarily restricted to “uncle.”