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Numbers 31:4 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" You shall send one thousand out of every tribe, throughout all the tribes of Israel, to the war.” "

Numbers 31:4

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2 “Avenge the children of Israel on the Midianites. Afterward you shall be gathered to your people.”

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

4 You shall send one thousand out of every tribe, throughout all the tribes of Israel, to the war.”

5 So there were delivered, out of the thousands of Israel, a thousand from every tribe, twelve thousand armed for war.

6 Moses sent them, one thousand of every tribe, to the war with Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, to the war, with the vessels of the sanctuary and the trumpets for the alarm in his hand.

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Judges 20:10

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"“Take a census of all the congregation of the children of Israel, from twenty years old and upward, by their fathers’ houses, all who are able to go out to war in Israel.”"

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Numbers 31:1

"The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,"

Numbers 31:2

"“Avenge the children of Israel on the Midianites. Afterward you shall be gathered to your people.”"

Numbers 31:3

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

Numbers 31:5

"So there were delivered, out of the thousands of Israel, a thousand from every tribe, twelve thousand armed for war."

Numbers 31:6

"Moses sent them, one thousand of every tribe, to the war with Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, to the war, with the vessels of the sanctuary and the trumpets for the alarm in his hand."

Numbers 31:7

"They fought against Midian, as the LORD commanded Moses. They killed every male."

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