OLD TESTAMENT

Numbers 1:16

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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.

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Verse 16. Army. Hebrew “of a thousand.” The Vulg. commonly styles them tribunes. They were “people of name in the assembly,” as the Hebrew indicates. Calmet.

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or, chiefs, or, leaders

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