Moses said to them, "If you will do this thing, if you will arm yourselves to go before the Lord to the war,
KJV
And Moses said unto them, If ye will do this thing, if ye will go armed before the LORD to war,
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And Moses said unto them,.... Being better disposed towards them, and more satisfied with the reasonableness of their request, it being explained unto him:
if ye will do this thing; which they had promised:
if ye will go armed before the Lord to war; they had said they would go ready armed before the children of Israel, but Moses expresses it "before the Lord"; which is more agreeable to their encampment and order in marching, for not the standard of Reuben but that of Judah went foremost, yet the standard of Reuben marched directly before the sanctuary bore by the Kohathites,
Num 10:18
, and so might be properly said to go before the Lord, who dwelt there.
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