Numbers 31:4
Good News Translation
From each tribe of Israel send a thousand men to war."

New Revised Standard Version
You shall send a thousand from each of the tribes of Israel to the war.”

Contemporary English Version
Each tribe will send 1,000 men to fight."

New American Bible
From each of the tribes of Israel you will send a thousand men to the campaign.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
Let a thousand men be chosen out of every tribe of Israel to be sent to the war.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

Of every tribe a thousand.

Leviticus 26:8 Five of yours shall pursue a hundred others: and a hundred of you ten thousand. Your enemies shall fall before you by the sword.

Judges 7:2 And the Lord said to Gedeon: The people that are with thee are many, and Madian shall not be delivered into their hands: lest Israel should glory against me, and say: I was delivered by my own strength.

1 Samuel 14:6 And Jonathan said to the young man that bore his armour: Come, let us go over to the garrison of these uncircumcised, it may be the Lord will do for us: because it is easy for the Lord to save either by many, or by few.

Context
Vengeance on Midian
3And Moses forthwith said: Arm of you men to fight, who may take the revenge of the Lord on the Madianites. 4Let a thousand men be chosen out of every tribe of Israel to be sent to the war.5And they gave a thousand of every tribe, that is to say, twelve thousand men well appointed for battle.…
Cross References
Numbers 31:3
And Moses forthwith said: Arm of you men to fight, who may take the revenge of the Lord on the Madianites.

Numbers 31:5
And they gave a thousand of every tribe, that is to say, twelve thousand men well appointed for battle.

Numbers 31:3
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