Numbers 31:5

What does Numbers 31:5 mean?

A plain-English look at Numbers 31:5 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

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

BBE

Bible in Basic English · 1949

So from the thousands of Israel a thousand were taken from every tribe, twelve thousand men armed for war.

YLT

Young's Literal Translation · 1862

And there are given out of the thousands of Israel a thousand for a tribe, twelve thousand armed ones of the host;

DRA

Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752

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

DBY

Darby Bible · 1890

And there were levied out of the thousands of Israel, a thousand by tribe, twelve thousand armed for war.

Context

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

v.5This passage

v.6And Moses sent them, a thousand of every tribe, to the war, them and Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, to the war, with the vessels of the sanctuary and the trumpets for the alarm in his hand.

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