So there were delivered out of the thousands of Yisrael, a thousand of every tribe, twelve thousand armed for war.
Of every tribe a thousand, throughout all the tribes of Yisrael, shall ye send to the war.
And Moshe sent them to the war, a thousand of every tribe, them and Pinchas the son of Eleazar the kohen, to the war, with the holy instruments, and the shofars to blow in his hand.