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 1:44

1:44 These were the men whom Moses and Aaron numbered ⁶  along with the twelve leaders of Israel, each of whom ⁷  was from his own family.

Numbers 36:7

36:7 In this way the inheritance of the Israelites will not be transferred ⁸  from tribe to tribe. But every one of the Israelites must retain the ancestral heritage.

Numbers 2:34

2:34 So the Israelites did according to all that the Lord commanded Moses; that is the way ⁹  they camped under their standards, and that is the way they traveled, each with his clan and family.

Numbers 13:2

13:2 “Send out men to investigate ¹⁰  the land of Canaan, which I am giving ¹¹  to the Israelites. You are to send one man from each ancestral tribe, ¹²  each one a leader among them.”

Numbers 36:8

36:8 And every daughter who possesses an inheritance from any of the tribes of the Israelites must become the wife of a man from any family in her father’s tribe, so that every Israelite ¹³  may retain the inheritance of his fathers.

[1:4]  ¹ tn Heb “and with you.”

[1:4]  ² tn The construction uses the noun in a distributive sense: “a man, a man for a tribe,” meaning a man for each tribe.

[1:4]  ³ tn The clause expresses a distributive function, “a man” means “each man.”

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

[1:4]  ⁵ tn Heb “the house of his fathers.”

[1:44]  ⁶ tn The construction uses both the passive participle הַפְּקֻדִים (happÿqudim) and the verb פָּקַד (paqad), giving a literal translation of “these were the numbered ones, whom Moses and Aaron numbered.”

[1:44]  ⁷ tn Heb “they were one man for the house of his fathers.”

[36:7]  ¹¹ tn Heb “turned aside.”

[2:34]  ¹⁶ tn The Hebrew word is כֵּן (ken, “thus, so”).

[13:2]  ²¹ tn The imperfect tense with the conjunction is here subordinated to the preceding imperative to form the purpose clause. It can thus be translated “send…to investigate.”

[13:2]  ²² tn The participle here should be given a future interpretation, meaning “which I am about to give” or “which I am going to give.”

[13:2]  ²³ tn Heb “one man one man of the tribe of his fathers.”

[36:8]  ²⁶ tn The subject is “Israelites” and the verb is plural to agree with it, but the idea is collective as the word for “man” indicates: “so that the Israelites may possess – [each] man the inheritance of his fathers.”