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and he organized them as a great army is marshaled for a campaign.
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He collected a vast number of camels and asses and mules for transport, and innumerable sheep and oxen and goats for provision;
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also plenty of food for every man, and a huge amount of gold and silver from the royal palace.
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So he set out with his whole army, to go ahead of King Nebuchadnezzar and to cover the whole face of the earth to the west with their chariots and horsemen and picked troops of infantry.
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Along with them went a mixed crowd like a swarm of locusts, like the dust of the earth -- a multitude that could not be counted.
Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright 1952 [2nd edition, 1971] by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.