Numbers 1:4

1:4 And to help you21 there is to be a man from each22 tribe, each man23 the head24 of his family.25

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21	tn Heb “and with you.”
22	tn The construction uses the noun in a distributive sense: “a man, a man for a tribe,” meaning a man for each tribe.
23	tn The clause expresses a distributive function, “a man” means “each man.”
24	sn See J. R. Bartlett, “The Use of the Word ראשׁ as a Title in the Old Testament,” VT 19 (1969): 1–10.
25	tn Heb “the house of his fathers.”