## Arm some of your men for war ##

AT: "Give weapons to some of your men"

## go against Midian and carry out Yahweh’s vengeance on it ##

AT: "go fight a war against the Midianites and punish them for what they did to Yahweh"

## a thousand...twelve thousand ##

"1,000...12,000" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/translate-numbers]])

## Israel’s thousands and thousands of men ##

AT: "Israel's many men"

## one thousand were provided from every tribe for war ##

AT: "every tribe sent 1,000 men to war" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-activepassive]])