These are the Israelites, numbered according to their families. ¹  All those numbered in the camps, by their divisions, are 603,550.

The rest ¹  turned and ran toward the wilderness, heading toward the cliff of Rimmon. But the Israelites ²  caught ³  five thousand of them on the main roads. They stayed right on their heels ⁴  all the way to Gidom and struck down two thousand more.

So a thousand from every tribe, twelve thousand armed for battle in all, were provided out of the thousands of Israel.

They marched out of the city with the servants of the district governors in the lead and the army behind them.

One nation was crushed by another, and one city by another, for God caused them to be in great turmoil. ¹ 

Letters were sent ¹  to all the Jews in the hundred and twenty-seven provinces of the empire of Ahasuerus – words of true peace ²  –

You set up all the boundaries ¹  of the earth; you created the cycle of summer and winter. ² 

Now when you come together at the same place, you are not really eating the Lord’s Supper.

chief Dishon, chief Ezer, chief Dishan. These were the chiefs of the Horites, according to their chief lists in the land of Seir.

It was the same Aaron and Moses to whom the Lord said, “Bring the Israelites out of the land of Egypt by their regiments.” ¹ 

At the end of the 430 years, on the very day, all the regiments ¹  of the Lord went out of the land of Egypt.

And on this very day the Lord brought the Israelites out of the land of Egypt by their regiments.

The standard ¹  of the camp of the Judahites set out first according to their companies, and over his company was Nahshon son of Amminadab.

Then the tabernacle was dismantled, and the sons of Gershon and the sons of Merari set out, carrying the tabernacle.

The standard of the camp of Reuben set out according to their companies; over his company was Elizur son of Shedeur.

And the standard of the camp of the Ephraimites set out according to their companies; over his company was Elishama son of Ammihud.

The Reubenites, Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh answered the leaders ¹  of the Israelite clans:

The men of Israel (not counting Benjamin) had mustered four hundred thousand sword-wielding soldiers, every one an experienced warrior. ¹ 

The Benjaminites attacked from Gibeah and struck down twenty-two thousand Israelites that day. ¹ 

That day twenty-five thousand ¹  sword-wielding Benjaminites fell in battle, all of them capable warriors. ²