Numbers 1:16 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition

¹⁶ These were the renowned of the congregation, princes of the tribes of their fathers, heads of thousands in Israel.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁶ These were the renowned of the congregation, princes of the tribes of their fathers, heads of thousands in Israel.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁶ These were those chosen from the congregation, the leaders of their ancestral tribes, heads of thousands [the highest class of officers] in Israel.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁶ These are they that were called of the congregation, the princes of the tribes of their fathers; they were the heads of the thousands of Israel.

Common English Bible

¹⁶ These are the ones appointed from the community, chiefs of their ancestral tribes and leaders of the divisions of Israel.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁶ These are the very noble leaders of the multitude, by their tribes and kinships, and the heads of the army of Israel.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁶ These are the most noble princes of the multitude by their tribes and kindreds, and the chiefs of the army of Israel,

Numbers 1:16 Cross References

Exodus 18:21

Moreover thou shalt provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, and rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens:

Exodus 18:25

And Moses chose able men out of all Israel, and made them heads over the people, rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.

Micah 5:2

But thou, Bethlehem Eph´ratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting.

Numbers 1:15

Of Naph´tali; Ahi´ra the son of Enan.

Numbers 1:17

And Moses and Aaron took these men which are expressed by their names:

Numbers 1:4

And with you there shall be a man of every tribe; every one head of the house of his fathers.

Numbers 10:4

And if they blow but with one trumpet, then the princes, which are heads of the thousands of Israel, shall gather themselves unto thee.

Numbers 11:17

And I will come down and talk with thee there: and I will take of the spirit which is upon thee, and will put it upon them; and they shall bear the burden of the people with thee, that thou bear it not thyself alone.

Numbers 16:2

and they rose up before Moses, with certain of the children of Israel, two hundred and fifty princes of the assembly, famous in the congregation, men of renown:

Numbers 26:9

And the sons of Eli´ab; Nem´u-el, and Dathan, and Abi´ram. This is that Dathan and Abi´ram, which were famous in the congregation, who strove against Moses and against Aaron in the company of Korah, when they strove against the Lord:

Numbers 30:1

And Moses spake unto the heads of the tribes concerning the children of Israel, saying, This is the thing which the Lord hath commanded.

Numbers 7:2

that the princes of Israel, heads of the house of their fathers, who were the princes of the tribes, and were over them that were numbered, offered:

Deuteronomy 1:15

So I took the chief of your tribes, wise men, and known, and made them heads over you, captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, and captains over fifties, and captains over tens, and officers among your tribes.

Judges 6:15

And he said unto him, O my Lord, wherewith shall I save Israel? behold, my family is poor in Manas´seh, and I am the least in my father's house.

1 Samuel 22:7

then Saul said unto his servants that stood about him, Hear now, ye Benjamites; will the son of Jesse give every one of you fields and vineyards, and make you all captains of thousands, and captains of hundreds;

1 Samuel 23:23

See therefore, and take knowledge of all the lurking places where he hideth himself, and come ye again to me with the certainty, and I will go with you: and it shall come to pass, if he be in the land, that I will search him out throughout all the thousands of Judah.