then Moshe stood in the gate of the camp, and said, *Whoever is on the LORD's side, come to me!* All the sons of Levi gathered themselves together to him.
He said to them, *Thus says the LORD, the God of Yisra'el, 'Every man put his sword on his thigh, and go back and forth from gate to gate throughout the camp, and every man kill his brother, and every man his companion, and every man his neighbor.'*
who said of his father, and of his mother, I have not seen him; Neither did he acknowledge his brothers, Nor did he know his own children: For they have observed your word, and keep your covenant.
It happened, when Yehoshua was by Yericho, that he lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, there stood a man over against him with his sword drawn in his hand: and Yehoshua went to him, and said to him, Are you for us, or for our adversaries?