² tn Heb “tribes/clans.”

¹ tn Heb “clan” or “extended family.”

⁷ tn Heb “and clans by her sorceries.”

² tn Or “to his family”; or “to his clan.”

¹ tn Or “clan leaders” (so also throughout this chapter).

² tn Heb “to the clan of the Kohathites for to them was the lot.”

¹ tn Heb “The territory of the sons of Ephraim was for their clans.”

¹ tn Heb “This is the inheritance of the tribe of the sons of Judah by their clans.”

² tn Heb “this was the border of the sons of Judah round about, by their clans.”

¹ tn Heb “and it belonged to the sons of Aaron, from the Kohathite clans, from the sons of Levi.”

¹ tn Heb “and the second lot came out for Simeon, for the tribe of the sons of Simeon by their clans.”

¹ tn Heb “This was the inheritance of the sons of Benjamin by its borders round about, by their clans.”

¹ tn Heb “This is the inheritance of the sons of Gad by their clans, the cities and their towns.”

¹ tn Heb “This is the inheritance of the sons of Reuben by their clans, the cities and their towns.”

³ tn Heb “according to those that were numbered of him,” meaning, in accordance with the number of people in his clan.

² tn The expression is literally “the house of their fathers.” This expression means that the household or family descended from a single ancestor. It usually indicates a subdivision of a tribe, that is, a clan, or the subdivision of a clan, that is, a family. Here it refers to a clan (S. R. Driver, Exodus, 46).

¹ tn Heb “and their brothers, according to all the clans of Issachar, the warriors [were] 87,000 listed in the genealogical records for all.”

¹ tn The words “their clan leaders were” are added in the translation for clarification. See v. 38a, which makes this clear.

³ tn Heb “and [there was] to Naomi a relative, to her husband, a man mighty in substance, from the clan of Elimelech, and his name [was] Boaz.”

¹ tn Heb “The lot was to the tribe of the sons of Judah by their clans to the border of Edom, the wilderness of Zin toward the south, southward.”