and with him ten princes, one prince of a fathers' house for each of the tribes of Yisra'el; and they were everyone of them head of their fathers' houses among the thousands of Yisra'el.
Moshe chose able men out of all Yisra'el, and made them heads over the people, rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.
They came to the children of Re'uven, and to the children of Gad, and to the half-tribe of Menasheh, to the land of Gil`ad, and they spoke with them, saying,