These are the men called from the community; they are leaders of their ancestral tribes, the heads of Israel's clans."

However, if one is sounded, only the leaders, the heads of Israel's clans, are to gather before you.

[They sent] 10 leaders with him-one family leader for each tribe of Israel. All of them were heads of their families among the clans of Israel.

The Reubenites, Gadites, and half the tribe of Manasseh answered the leaders of the Israelite clans,

Bethlehem Ephrathah, you are small among the clans of Judah; One will come from you to be ruler over Israel for Me. His origin is from antiquity, from eternity.