² tn Heb “the tribe of our fathers.”

¹ tn Heb “sons,” here referring to the tribe.

² tn Heb “house.” In other words, the tribe of Levi.

¹ tn The Hebrew text simply has “and the tribe of Gad.”

¹ tn The Hebrew text has “and the tribe of Naphtali.”

¹ tn Heb “the sons,” here referring to the tribe.

¹ tn Heb “and to the sons of Gershom by their clans from the tribe of Issachar, and from the tribe of Asher, and from the tribe of Naphtali, and from the tribe of Manasseh in Bashan, thirteen cities.”

³ tn Heb “And Israel is the tribe of his possession.”

¹ tn Heb “assigned to the half-tribe of Manasseh, and it belonged to the half-tribe of Manasseh.”

¹ tn Heb “and to the sons of Merari by their clans from the tribe of Reuben, and from the tribe of Gad, and from the tribe of Zebulun by lot, twelve cities.”

¹ tn Heb “and they gave by lot from the tribe of the sons of Judah, and from the tribe of the sons of Simeon, and from the tribe of the sons of Benjamin these cities, which they called them by names.”

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 sn Judah, like Ephraim, was the other major tribe west of the Jordan. The Davidic king, symbolized here by the royal scepter, came from this tribe.

³ sn Judah, like Ephraim, was the other major tribe west of the Jordan River. The Davidic king, symbolized here by the royal scepter, came from this tribe.

¹ tn This part has been supplied; the text simply has “the tribe of Zebulun.”

¹ tn Here too the Hebrew text simply has “and the tribe of Benjamin.”

³ tn Heb “one man one man of the tribe of his fathers.”

¹ tc Some scholars emend “tribe” to “sons.” Cf. Num 1:10.

¹ tn That is, the possession of land, or property, among the other families of their tribe.

¹ tn This sense is created by repetition: “one leader, one leader from the tribe.”