And Moses spake to the people, saying, Harness some of you unto war, and let them go against Midian, to execute the vengeance of the Lord [a]against Midian.

A thousand of every tribe throughout all the tribes of Israel shall ye send to the war.

So there were taken out of the thousands of Israel, twelve thousand prepared unto war, of every tribe a thousand.

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 31:3 As he had commanded, Num. 25:17, declaring also that the injury done against his people is done against him.

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