Numbers 1:4

4 Ask one clan chief from each tribe to help you."

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 "You and Aaron are to take a census of the people of Israel by clans and families. List the names of all the men

3 twenty years old or older who are fit for military service.

4 Ask one clan chief from each tribe to help you."

5 These are the men, leaders within their tribes, who were chosen from the community for this work: