Numbers 31:5
So there were delivered out of the thousands of Israel, a thousand of every tribe, twelve thousand armed for war.
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Gill's Exposition
So they were delivered out of the thousands of Israel,.... Several thousands very probably offered themselves voluntarily to go to the war, or however were summoned together on this account, and out…
Academic commentary, 1882–1921
Cambridge Bible
and there were delivered The use of this verb וַיִמָּסְרוּ would, if the reading were certain, mark the chapter as a late composition. It occurs in Num 31:31 (see, however, note), but not elsewhere in…