“Of every tribe a thousand, throughout all the tribes of Israel, shall ye send to the war.”
Send from each tribe of Israel a thousand men to the war — exactly twelve thousand fighters, one thousand from each of the twelve tribes. The numerical precision (1,000 × 12) suggests corporate solidarity: the whole people participates in the judgment, yet no tribe dominates. This delegation anticipates the future tribal apportionment of the land.
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