Numbers 31:4

4 mille viri de singulis tribubus eligantur Israhel qui mittantur ad bellum

Numbers 31:4 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 31:4

Of every tribe a thousand
So that the whole number of those that were armed were 12,000 as after given:

throughout all the tribes of Israel;
this is observed, as Jarchi thinks, to comprehend the tribe of Levi, which in some cases was left out of the account:

shall ye send to the war;
to fight with Midian.

Numbers 31:4 In-Context

2 ulciscere prius filios Israhel de Madianitis et sic colligeris ad populum tuum

3 statimque Moses armate inquit ex vobis viros ad pugnam qui possint ultionem Domini expetere de Madianitis

4 mille viri de singulis tribubus eligantur Israhel qui mittantur ad bellum

5 dederuntque millenos de cunctis tribubus id est duodecim milia expeditorum ad pugnam

6 quos misit Moses cum Finees filio Eleazari sacerdotis vasa quoque sancta et tubas ad clangendum tradidit ei