Numbers 31:5 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

So there were provided out of the thousands of Israel 1,000 from each tribe, 12,000 armed for war.

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Common English Bible

From the thousands of Israel, one thousand from each tribe were selected. Twelve thousand were equipped for battle.

Catholic Public Domain Version

And they gave one thousand from each tribe, that is, twelve thousand foot soldiers for battle.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

And they gave a thousand of every tribe: that is to say, twelve thousand men well appointed for battle.

Numbers 31:5 Cross References

Numbers 31:4

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

Numbers 31:6

And Moses sent them, a thousand of every tribe, to the war, them and 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.