Yosua 22:32

22:32 Phinehas, son of Eleazar, the priest, and the leaders left the Reubenites and Gadites in the land of Gilead and reported back to the Israelites in the land of Canaan. ¹ 

Bilangan 1:4

1:4 And to help you ²  there is to be a man from each ³  tribe, each man ⁴  the head ⁵  of his family. ⁶ 

[22:32]  ¹ tn Heb “and Phinehas…returned from the sons of Reuben and from the sons of Gad, from the land of Gilead to the land of Canaan, to the sons of Israel. And they brought back to them a word.”

[1:4]  ² tn Heb “and with you.”

[1:4]  ³ tn The construction uses the noun in a distributive sense: “a man, a man for a tribe,” meaning a man for each tribe.

[1:4]  ⁴ tn The clause expresses a distributive function, “a man” means “each man.”

[1:4]  ⁵ sn See J. R. Bartlett, “The Use of the Word ראשׁ as a Title in the Old Testament,” VT 19 (1969): 1-10.

[1:4]  ⁶ tn Heb “the house of his fathers.”