Numbers 31:3
And Moses forthwith said: Arm of you men to fight, who may take the revenge of the Lord on the Madianites.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Statimque Moyses : Armate, inquit, ex vobis viros ad pugnam, qui possint ultionem Domini expetere de Madianitis.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ ἐλάλησεν Μωυσῆς πρὸς τὸν λαὸν λέγων Ἐξοπλίσατε ἐξ ὑμῶν ἄνδρας, παρατάξασθαι ἔναντι Κυρίου ἐπὶ Μαδιάν, ἀποδοῦναι ἐκδίκησιν παρὰ τοῦ κυρίου τῇ Μαδιάν·
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וַיְדַבֵּ֤ר מֹשֶׁה֙ אֶל הָעָ֣ם לֵאמֹ֔ר הֵחָלְצ֧וּ מֵאִתְּכֶ֛ם אֲנָשִׁ֖ים לַצָּבָ֑א וְיִהְיוּ֙ עַל מִדְיָ֔ן לָתֵ֥ת נִקְמַת יְהוָ֖ה בְּמִדְיָֽן
The Fathers on this verse
St Irenaeus Fragments from the Lost Writings of, XXV
“To inflict vengeance from the Lord on Midian.” For this man (Balaam), when he speaks no longer in the Spirit of God, but contrary to God’s law, by setting up a different law with regard to fornication, is certainly not then to be counted as a prophet, but as a soothsayer. For he who did not keep to the commandment of God, received the just recompense of his own evil devices.