These were the ones chosen from the congregation, the chiefs of their ancestral tribes, the heads of the clans of Israel.

But if they blow only one, then the chiefs, the heads of the tribes of Israel, shall gather themselves to you.

and with him ten chiefs, one from each of the tribal families of Israel, every one of them the head of a family among the clans of Israel.

Then the people of Reuben, the people of Gad, and the half-tribe of Manasseh said in answer to the heads of the families of Israel,

But you, O Bethlehem Ephrathah, who are too little to be among the clans of Judah, from you shall come forth for me one who is to be ruler in Israel, whose coming forth is from of old, from ancient days.