The children of Reuben, and the children of Gad, and the half-tribe of Manasseh, passed over armed before the children of Israel, as Moses spoke to them:
"Thus, it is the amazing symbolism of these events, as we found so frequently in Exodus, that bears eloquent and indestructible testimony of the divine nature of this narrative.  It is beyond the power of any man who ever lived to have concocted a story like this, even if he had had one hundred prior sources to help him!  The hand of the infinite God is in every line of this sacred narrative!