Numbers 34:18
New International Version
And appoint one leader from each tribe to help assign the land.

New Living Translation
Enlist one leader from each tribe to help them with the task.

English Standard Version
You shall take one chief from every tribe to divide the land for inheritance.

Berean Standard Bible
Appoint one leader from each tribe to distribute the land.

King James Bible
And ye shall take one prince of every tribe, to divide the land by inheritance.

New King James Version
And you shall take one leader of every tribe to divide the land for the inheritance.

New American Standard Bible
And you shall take one leader of each tribe to assign the land as an inheritance.

NASB 1995
“You shall take one leader of every tribe to apportion the land for inheritance.

NASB 1977
“And you shall take one leader of every tribe to apportion the land for inheritance.

Legacy Standard Bible
And you shall take one leader of every tribe to apportion the land for inheritance.

Amplified Bible
You shall take one leader from every tribe to divide the land for the inheritance.

Christian Standard Bible
Take one leader from each tribe to distribute the land.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Take one leader from each tribe to distribute the land.

American Standard Version
And ye shall take one prince of every tribe, to divide the land for inheritance.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And take one Prince from each tribe that they will distribute the land to you.”

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And ye shall take one ruler from each tribe to divide the land to you by lot.

Contemporary English Version
One leader from each tribe will help them,

Douay-Rheims Bible
And one prince of every tribe,

English Revised Version
And ye shall take one prince of every tribe, to divide the land for inheritance.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
You must also take one leader from each tribe to divide the land.

Good News Translation
Take also one leader from each tribe to help them divide it."

International Standard Version
You are to appoint a leader from each tribe to divide the land for inheritance.

JPS Tanakh 1917
And ye shall take one prince of every tribe, to take possession of the land.

Literal Standard Version
And one prince—you take one prince from a tribe to give the land by inheritance.

Majority Standard Bible
Appoint one leader from each tribe to distribute the land.

New American Bible
and you will designate one leader from each of the tribes to apportion the land.

NET Bible
You must take one leader from every tribe to assist in allocating the land as an inheritance.

New Revised Standard Version
You shall take one leader of every tribe to apportion the land for inheritance.

New Heart English Bible
You shall take one prince of every tribe, to divide the land for inheritance.

Webster's Bible Translation
And ye shall take one prince of every tribe, to divide the land by inheritance.

World English Bible
You shall take one prince of every tribe, to divide the land for inheritance.

Young's Literal Translation
and one prince -- one prince -- for a tribe ye do take to give the land by inheritance.

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Context
Leaders for Dividing the Land
17“These are the names of the men who are to assign the land as an inheritance for you: Eleazar the priest and Joshua son of Nun. 18Appoint one leader from each tribe to distribute the land. 19These are their names: Caleb son of Jephunneh from the tribe of Judah;…

Cross References
Numbers 34:17
"These are the names of the men who are to assign the land as an inheritance for you: Eleazar the priest and Joshua son of Nun.

Numbers 34:19
These are their names: Caleb son of Jephunneh from the tribe of Judah;


Treasury of Scripture

And you shall take one prince of every tribe, to divide the land by inheritance.

Numbers 1:4-16
And with you there shall be a man of every tribe; every one head of the house of his fathers…

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Numbers 34
1. The borders of the land
16. The names of the men who shall divide the land














(18) And ye shall take one prince of every tribe . . . --In addition to Eleazar the high priest, and Joshua the commander of the army, one chief man, or prince, was to be selected out of each of the ten tribes which were interested in the division, as at the first census one out of each tribe was associated with Moses and Aaron (Numbers 1:4), and as was probably the case at the second census under Moses and Eleazar. (Comp. Numbers 27:2.) Security was thus afforded for the equity and impartiality of the allotment; the position of the territory only, and not its dimensions, being determined by lot. With the exception of Caleb, the names of the princes selected for this purpose are not mentioned elsewhere.

Verse 18. - One prince of every tribe. This was arranged no doubt in order to insure fairness in fixing the boundaries between the tribes, which had to be done after the situation of the tribe was determined by lot; the further subdivision of the tribal territory was probably left to be managed by the chiefs of the tribe itself. Of these tribe princes (see on Numbers 13:1; Joshua 14:1), Caleb is the only one whose name is known to us, and he had acted in a somewhat similar capacity forty years before. This may of itself account for the tribe of Judah being named first in the list, especially as Reuben was not represented; but the order in which the other names follow is certainly remarkable. Taken in pairs (Judah and Simeon, Manasseh and Ephraim, etc.), they advance regularly from south to north, according to their subsequent position on the map. Differing as this arrangement does so markedly from any previously adopted, it is impossible to suppose that it is accidental. We must conclude either that a coincidence so apparently trivial was Divinely prearranged, or that the arrangement of the names is due to a later hand than that of Moses.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Appoint
תִּקְח֖וּ (tiq·ḥū)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine plural
Strong's 3947: To take

one
אֶחָ֛ד (’e·ḥāḏ)
Number - masculine singular
Strong's 259: United, one, first

leader
וְנָשִׂ֥יא (wə·nā·śî)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 5387: An exalted one, a king, sheik, a rising mist

from each
אֶחָ֖ד (’e·ḥāḏ)
Number - masculine singular
Strong's 259: United, one, first

tribe
מִמַּטֶּ֑ה (mim·maṭ·ṭeh)
Preposition-m | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 4294: A staff, rod, shaft, branch, a tribe

to distribute
לִנְחֹ֥ל (lin·ḥōl)
Preposition-l | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct
Strong's 5157: To inherit, to occupy, to bequeath, distribute, instate

the land.
הָאָֽרֶץ׃ (hā·’ā·reṣ)
Article | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 776: Earth, land


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