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Avenge the children of Israel upon the Midianites; afterwards shalt thou be gathered unto thy peoples.
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And Moses spoke to the people, saying, Arm from amongst you men for military service, that they go against Midian to execute Jehovah's vengeance upon Midian.
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Of every tribe a thousand, of all the tribes of Israel, shall ye send to the war.
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And there were levied out of the thousands of Israel, a thousand by tribe, twelve thousand armed for war.
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And Moses sent them to the war, a thousand by the tribe, them and Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, to the war, and the holy instruments, even the alarm-trumpets in his hand.