“These men were appointed from the congregation; they were the leaders of the tribes of their fathers, the heads of the clans of Israel.”
Numbers 1:16 (BSB)
Context Reading
14from Gad, Eliasaph son of Deuel; 15and from Naphtali, Ahira son of Enan.” 16These men were appointed from the congregation; they were the leaders of the tribes of their fathers, the heads of the clans of Israel. 17So Moses and Aaron took these men who had been designated by name, 18and on the first day of the second month they assembled the whole congregation and recorded their ancestry by clans and families, counting one by one the names of those twenty years of age or older,