Numbers 7:2

Then the leaders of Israel, the heads of their clans, ¹  made an offering. They were the leaders of the tribes; they were the ones who had been supervising ²  the numbering.

Ex 35:27; Nu 1:4-16; Nu 2:1-34; Nu 10:1-36; 1Ch 29:6-8; 2Ch 35:8; Ezr 2:68,69; Ne 7:70-72

¹ tn Heb “the house of their fathers.”

² tn The form is the Qal active participle from the verb “to stand” (עָמַד, ’amad). The form describes these leaders as “the ones standing over [the ones numbered].” The expression, along with the clear indication of the first census in chapter 1, shows that this was a supervisory capacity.