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Numbers 31:1-6
Twelve thousand are sent
The War Against Midian · Numbers 31
Open this scene in the reader →1Then Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
2Take vengeance for the sons of Israel on the Midianites. Afterward you will be gathered to your people.
3So Moses spoke to the people, saying, “Arm men from among you for the army, and let them go against Midian to execute Yahweh’s vengeance on Midian.”
4A thousand from each tribe, from all the tribes of Israel, you shall send to the army.
5So from the thousands of Israel, a thousand from each tribe were assigned: twelve thousand armed for war.
6So Moses sent them to the war, a thousand from each tribe, them and Phinehas son of Eleazar the priest, to the war, with the holy vessels and the trumpets for the battle cry in his hand.
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