Numbers 31:1-6

1 The Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
2 "Avenge the Israelites on the Midianites; afterward you shall be gathered to your people."
3 So Moses said to the people, "Arm some of your number for the war, so that they may go against Midian, to execute the Lord's vengeance on Midian.
4 You shall send a thousand from each of the tribes of Israel to the war."
5 So out of the thousands of Israel, a thousand from each tribe were conscripted, twelve thousand armed for battle.
6 Moses sent them to the war, a thousand from each tribe, along with Phinehas son of Eleazar the priest, with the vessels of the sanctuary and the trumpets for sounding the alarm in his hand.

Footnotes 1

  • [a]. Gk: Heb adds [to the war]
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