Numbers 1:4

4 A man from each tribe shall be with you, each man the head of his ancestral house.

Numbers 1:4 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 1:4

And with you there shall be a man of every tribe
Excepting Levi, of which Moses and Aaron were, to assist in taking the account, and to see that it was an exact and perfect one:

everyone head of the house of his fathers;
and prince of the tribe he belonged to, as appears from ( Numbers 1:16 ) and ( Numbers 7:2 ) , where an account is given of the same persons as princes of the tribes that offered at the dedication of the altar, who here assisted in the taking this account; the Targum of Jonathan calls them each a prince, as Prince Elizur

Numbers 1:4 In-Context

2 Take a census of the whole congregation of Israelites, in their clans, by ancestral houses, according to the number of names, every male individually;

3 from twenty years old and upward, everyone in Israel able to go to war. You and Aaron shall enroll them, company by company.

4 A man from each tribe shall be with you, each man the head of his ancestral house.

5 These are the names of the men who shall assist you: From Reuben, Elizur son of Shedeur.

6 From Simeon, Shelumiel son of Zurishaddai.