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Numbers 31:3

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Moses spoke to the people, saying, “Arm men from among you for war, that they may go against Midian, to execute Yahweh’s vengeance on Midian.

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Numbers 31:3 in other translations

And Moses spake unto the people, saying, Arm ye men from among you for the war, that they may go against Midian, to execute Jehovah’s vengeance on Midian.

Numbers 31:3 · American Standard Version

Numbers 31:3 in context

  1. 1Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
  2. 2“Avenge the children of Israel on the Midianites. Afterward you shall be gathered to your people.”
  3. 3Moses spoke to the people, saying, “Arm men from among you for war, that they may go against Midian, to execute Yahweh’s vengeance on Midian.
  4. 4You shall send one thousand out of every tribe, throughout all the tribes of Israel, to the war.”
  5. 5So there were delivered, out of the thousands of Israel, a thousand from every tribe, twelve thousand armed for war.