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“Joab gave the sum of the census of the people to David. All those of Israel were one million one hundred thousand men who drew a sword; and in Judah were four hundred seventy thousand men who drew a sword.”
1 Chronicles 21:5
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Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.
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