Numbers 1:16
These are the most noble princes of the multitude by their tribes and kindreds, and the chiefs of the army of Israel:
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Hi nobilissimi principes multitudinis per tribus et cognationes suas, et capita exercitus Israël,
- Septuagint (Swete)
- οὗτοι ἐπίκλητοι τῆς συναγωγῆς, ἄρχοντες τῶν φυλῶν κατὰ πατριάς, χιλίαρχοι Ἰσραήλ εἰσιν.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- אֵ֚לֶּה קריאי הָעֵדָ֔ה נְשִׂיאֵ֖י מַטּ֣וֹת אֲבוֹתָ֑ם רָאשֵׁ֛י אַלְפֵ֥י יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל הֵֽם
Haydock's commentary
Army. Hebrew, "of a thousand." The Vulgate commonly styles them tribunes. They were "people of name in the assembly," as the Hebrew indicates. (Calmet)
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.