“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.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Numbers 1 contains 54 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.