Numbers 31:1
Then the Lord said to Moses,
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Numbers 31:2
Give the Midianites punishment for the wrong they did to the children of Israel: and after that you will go to rest with your people.
Numbers 31:3
So Moses said to the people, Let men from among you be armed for war to put into effect against Midian the Lord's punishment on them.
Numbers 31:4
From every tribe of Israel send a thousand to the war.
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Numbers 25:16
Then the Lord said to Moses,
Numbers 25:17
Take up arms against the Midianites and overcome them;
Numbers 25:18
For they are a danger to you with their false ways, causing sin to come on you in the question of Peor, and because of Cozbi, their sister, the daughter of the chief of Midian, who was put to death at the time of the disease which came on you because of Peor.
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Numbers 1:1
And the Lord said to Moses in the waste land of Sinai, in the Tent of meeting, on the first day of the second month, in the second year after they came out of the land of Egypt,
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