Exodus 32:27
“For the sons of Levi ran upon them, those who ran to [help] Moses and girded on their swords. For the sons of Levi did not know whom they should slay, because those that worshipped were mingled with those that worshipped not. But He, for Whom it was easy to distinguish, distinguished those who were defiled from those…”
Source: Septuagint
27And he says to them, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, Put every one his sword on his thigh, and go through and return from gate to gate through the camp, and slay every one his brother, and every one his neighbor, and every one him that is nearest to him.
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25And when Moses saw that the people was scattered—for Aaron had scattered them so as to be a rejoicing to their enemies—
26then stood Moses at the gate of the camp, and said, Who is on the Lord’s side? let him come to me. Then all the sons of Levi came to him.
— Exodus 32:27 —
28And the sons of Levi did as Moses spoke to them, and there fell of the people in that day to the number of three thousand men.
29And Moses said to them, Ye have filled your hands this day to the Lord each one on his son or on his brother, so that blessing should be given to you.