4Send into battle a thousand men from each of the tribes of Israel."


In Context

1 The Lord said to Moses,

2 "Take vengeance on the Midianites for the Israelites. After that, you will be gathered to your people."

3 So Moses said to the people, "Arm some of your men to go to war against the Midianites and to carry out the Lord 's vengeance on them.

4 Send into battle a thousand men from each of the tribes of Israel."

5 So twelve thousand men armed for battle, a thousand from each tribe, were supplied from the clans of Israel.

6 Moses sent them into battle, a thousand from each tribe, along with Phinehas son of Eleazar, the priest, who took with him articles from the sanctuary and the trumpets for signaling.

Numbers 31:4 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

31:4Of every tribe a thousand, throughout all the tribes of Israel, shall ye send to the war.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

31:4Let a thousand men be chosen out of every tribe of Israel to be sent to the war.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

31:4Of every tribe a thousand, throughout all the tribes of Israel, shall ye send to the war.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

31:4Of every tribe a thousand, of all the tribes of Israel, shall ye send to the war.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

31:4Of every tribe a thousand, throughout all the tribes of Israel, shall ye send to the war.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

31:4Of every tribe a thousand, throughout all the tribes of Israel, shall ye send to the war.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

31:4Of every tribe one thousand, throughout all the tribes of Israel, you shall send to the war.|

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

31:4a thousand for a tribe — a thousand for a tribe, to all the tribes of Israel — ye do send to the host.'

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

31:4Of every tribe a thousand, throughout all the tribes of Israel, shall you send to the war.