Numbers 31:4 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

You shall send a thousand from each of the tribes of Israel to the war.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

Of every tribe a thousand, throughout all the tribes of Israel, shall ye send to the war.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

From each of the tribes of Israel you shall send 1,000 to the war.

American Standard Version (1901)

Of every tribe a thousand, throughout all the tribes of Israel, shall ye send to the war.

Common English Bible

You will send out for battle one thousand from each of the tribes of Israel.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

Let one thousand men be chosen from each tribe of Israel, who shall be sent to war."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

Let a thousand men be chosen out of every tribe of Israel to be sent to the war.

Numbers 31:4 Cross References

Leviticus 26:8

Five of you shall give chase to a hundred, and a hundred of you shall give chase to ten thousand; your enemies shall fall before you by the sword.

Numbers 31:3

So Moses spoke to the people, saying, “Arm some of your number for the war, so that they may go against Midian, to execute the Lord’s vengeance on Midian.

Numbers 31:5

So out of the thousands of Israel, a thousand from each tribe were conscripted, twelve thousand armed for battle.

Judges 7:2

The Lord said to Gideon, “The troops with you are too many for me to give the Midianites into their hand. Israel would only take the credit away from me, saying, ‘My own hand has delivered me.’

1 Samuel 14:6

Jonathan said to the young man who carried his armor, “Come, let us go over to the garrison of these uncircumcised; it may be that the Lord will act for us, for nothing can hinder the Lord from saving by many or by few.”