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

a thousand for a tribe, a thousand for a tribe, to all the tribes of Israel, ye do send to the host.'

Let one thousand men be chosen from each tribe of Israel, who shall be sent to war."

Mille de singulis tribubus, de omnibus tribubus Israel mittetis ad bellum.

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.