They sent ten leaders with him #— #one family leader for each tribe of Israel. All of them were heads of their ancestral families among the clans of Israel.
A man from each tribe is to be with you, each one the head of his ancestral family. ,
So Moses chose able men from all Israel and made them leaders over the people as commanders of thousands, hundreds, fifties, and tens.
They went to the Reubenites, Gadites, and half the tribe of Manasseh, in the land of Gilead, and told them,