So Moses said to the judges of Israel, “Each of you must execute those of his men who were joined to Baal-peor.”

Reuben was the firstborn of Israel. The Reubenites: from Hanoch, the family of the Hanochites; from Pallu, the family of the Palluites;

These were those numbered of the Israelites, 601,730.

Then you must delegate some of your authority to him, so that the whole community of the Israelites will be obedient.

“Exact vengeance for the Israelites on the Midianites – after that you will be gathered to your people.”

You must send to the battle a thousand men from every tribe throughout all the tribes of Israel.”

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

From the Israelites’ half-share that Moses had separated from the fighting men,

the land that the Lord subdued before the community of Israel, is ideal for cattle, and your servants have cattle.”

We will not return to our homes until every Israelite has his inheritance.

These are the journeys of the Israelites, who went out of the land of Egypt by their divisions under the authority of Moses and Aaron.

The king of Arad, the Canaanite king who lived in the south of the land of Canaan, heard about the approach of the Israelites.

These are the ones whom the Lord commanded to divide up the inheritance among the Israelites in the land of Canaan.

These are the stipulations, statutes, and ordinances that Moses spoke to the Israelites after he had brought them out of Egypt,

You must not pity him, but purge out the blood of the innocent from Israel, so that it may go well with you.

“The Levites will call out to every Israelite with a loud voice:

Then Moses went and spoke these words to all Israel.

So on that day Moses wrote down this song and taught it to the Israelites,

Then Moses recited the words of this song from start to finish in the hearing of the whole assembly of Israel.

When the Most High gave the nations their inheritance, when he divided up humankind, he set the boundaries of the peoples, according to the number of the heavenly assembly.