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What does Numbers 1:16 mean?
"These are those who were called of the congregation, the princes of the tribes of their fathers; they were the heads of the thousands of Israel."
— Numbers 1:16 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
Of Asher: Pagiel the son of Ochran.
Of Gad: Eliasaph the son of Deuel.
Of Naphtali: Ahira the son of Enan.”
These are those who were called of the congregation, the princes of the tribes of their fathers; they were the heads of the thousands of Israel.
Moses and Aaron took these men who are mentioned by name.
They assembled all the congregation together on the first day of the second month; and they declared their ancestry by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, one by one.
As Yahweh commanded Moses, so he counted them in the wilderness of Sinai.
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