So there were delivered out of the thousands of Israel, a thousand of every tribe, twelve thousand armed for war.
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
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4 additional translationsASV
So there were delivered, out of the thousands of Israel, a thousand of every tribe, twelve thousand armed for war.
WEB
So a thousand men were recruited from each tribe of Israel—twelve thousand armed for war.
YLT
And there are given out of the thousands of Israel a thousand for a tribe, twelve thousand armed ones of the host;
DBT
And there were levied out of the thousands of Israel, a thousand by tribe, twelve thousand armed for war.
About this book
Old Testament▾
About this book
Old TestamentNumbers — Israel on the move — and Israel on the ground in rebellion. Two censuses bracket thirty-eight wilderness years; God's faithfulness holds where the people's does not.
- Author
- Moses — the wilderness narrator; ‘Moses wrote their goings out according to their journeys’ (33:2)
- Date
- The wilderness years, c. 15th–13th century BC