Numbers 1:4

4 Pick one man from each tribe who is head of his family 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 "Number the congregation of the People of Israel by clans and families, writing down the names of every male.

3 You and Aaron are to register, company by company, every man who is twenty years and older who is able to fight in the army.

4 Pick one man from each tribe who is head of his family to help you.

5 These are the names of the men who will help you: from Reuben: Elizur son of Shedeur

6 from Simeon: Shelumiel son of Zurishaddai