Numbers 31:5
New International Version
So twelve thousand men armed for battle, a thousand from each tribe, were supplied from the clans of Israel.

New Living Translation
So they chose 1,000 men from each tribe of Israel, a total of 12,000 men armed for battle.

English Standard Version
So there were provided, out of the thousands of Israel, a thousand from each tribe, twelve thousand armed for war.

Berean Standard Bible
So a thousand men were recruited from each tribe of Israel—twelve thousand armed for war.

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

New King James Version
So there were recruited from the divisions of Israel one thousand from each tribe, twelve thousand armed for war.

New American Standard Bible
So there were selected from the thousands of Israel, a thousand from each tribe, twelve thousand armed for war.

NASB 1995
So there were furnished from the thousands of Israel, a thousand from each tribe, twelve thousand armed for war.

NASB 1977
So there were furnished from the thousands of Israel, a thousand from each tribe, twelve thousand armed for war.

Legacy Standard Bible
So there were furnished from the thousands of Israel, one thousand from each tribe, twelve thousand armed for war.

Amplified Bible
So out of the thousands of Israel, a thousand from each tribe were selected, twelve thousand armed for war.

Christian Standard Bible
So one thousand were recruited from each Israelite tribe out of the thousands in Israel—twelve thousand equipped for war.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
So 1,000 were recruited from each Israelite tribe out of the thousands in Israel—12,000 equipped for war.

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

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And they chose a thousand from the tribes of the sons of Israel, a thousand from a tribe, twelve thousand armed in the army.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And they numbered of the thousands of Israel a thousand of each tribe, twelve thousands; these were armed for war.

Contemporary English Version
Twelve thousand men were picked from the tribes of Israel, and after they were prepared for battle,

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

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

GOD'S WORD® Translation
So 1,000 men from each tribe were supplied from the divisions of Israel-12,000 men ready for war.

Good News Translation
So a thousand men were chosen from each tribe, a total of twelve thousand men ready for battle.

International Standard Version
So 1,000 men from every tribe—12,000 from the thousands of Israel—were mustered and equipped for war.

JPS Tanakh 1917
So there were delivered, out of the thousands of Israel, a thousand of every tribe, twelve thousand armed for war.

Literal Standard Version
And there are given out of the thousands of Israel one thousand for a tribe—twelve thousand armed ones [for] war;

Majority Standard Bible
So a thousand men were recruited from each tribe of Israel—twelve thousand armed for war.

New American Bible
From the contingents of Israel, therefore, a thousand men of each tribe were levied, so that there were twelve thousand men armed for war.

NET Bible
So a thousand from every tribe, twelve thousand armed for battle in all, were provided out of the thousands of Israel.

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

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

Webster's Bible Translation
So there were delivered out of the thousands of Israel, a thousand of every tribe, twelve thousand armed for war.

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

Young's Literal Translation
And there are given out of the thousands of Israel a thousand for a tribe, twelve thousand armed ones of the host;

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Context
Vengeance on Midian
4Send into battle a thousand men from each tribe of Israel.” 5So a thousand men were recruited from each tribe of Israel— twelve thousand armed for war. 6And Moses sent the thousand from each tribe into battle, along with Phinehas son of Eleazar the priest, who took with him the vessels of the sanctuary and the trumpets for signaling.…

Cross References
Numbers 31:4
Send into battle a thousand men from each tribe of Israel."

Numbers 31:6
And Moses sent the thousand from each tribe into battle, along with Phinehas son of Eleazar the priest, who took with him the vessels of the sanctuary and the trumpets for signaling.


Treasury of Scripture

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Verse 5. - There were delivered, or "levied." יִמָּסְרוּ. Septuagint, ἐξηρίθμησαν The Hebrew word is only used here and in verse 16 (see note there), and in these two places not in the same sense. The context, however, leaves little or no doubt as to the meaning which it must bear.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
So a thousand men
מֵאַלְפֵ֣י (mê·’al·p̄ê)
Preposition-m | Noun - masculine plural construct
Strong's 505: A thousand

were recruited
וַיִּמָּֽסְרוּ֙ (way·yim·mā·sə·rū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Nifal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's 4560: To sunder, set apart, apostatize

from each tribe
לַמַּטֶּ֑ה (lam·maṭ·ṭeh)
Preposition-l, Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 4294: A staff, rod, shaft, branch, a tribe

of Israel—
יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל (yiś·rā·’êl)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3478: Israel -- 'God strives', another name of Jacob and his desc

twelve
שְׁנֵים־ (šə·nêm-)
Number - md
Strong's 8147: Two (a cardinal number)

thousand
אֶ֖לֶף (’e·lep̄)
Number - masculine singular
Strong's 505: A thousand

armed
חֲלוּצֵ֥י (ḥă·lū·ṣê)
Verb - Qal - QalPassParticiple - masculine plural construct
Strong's 2502: To pull off, to strip, to depart, to deliver, equip, present, strengthen

for war.
צָבָֽא׃ (ṣā·ḇā)
Noun - common singular
Strong's 6635: A mass of persons, reg, organized for, war, a campaign


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