Numbers 1:4

4 Take with you from each tribe someone who is head of a clan.

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 entire assembly of the people of Isra'el, by clans and families. Record the names of all the men

3 twenty years old and over who are subject to military service in Isra'el. You and Aharon are to enumerate them company by company.

4 Take with you from each tribe someone who is head of a clan.

5 These are the men to take with you: From Re'uven, Elitzur the son of Sh'de'ur;

6 From Shim'on, Shlumi'el the son of Tzurishaddai;