Numbers 31:1-13
Vengeance on Midian
31Then Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, 2“aTake full vengeance for the sons of Israel on the Midianites; afterward you will be bgathered to your people.” 3And Moses spoke to the people, saying, “Arm men from among you for the war, that they may 1go against Midian to execute aYahweh’s vengeance on Midian. 4“One thousand from each tribe of all the tribes of Israel you shall send to the war.” 5So there were 1furnished from the thousands of Israel, one thousand from each tribe, twelve thousand armed for war. 6And Moses sent them, one thousand from each tribe, to the war, and Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, to the war with them, aand the holy vessels and bthe trumpets for the alarm in his hand. 7So they made war against Midian, just as Yahweh had commanded Moses, and athey killed every male. 8They killed the kings of Midian along with the rest of their slain: aEvi and Rekem and bZur and Hur and Reba, the five kings of Midian; they also killed cBalaam the son of Beor with the sword. 9And the sons of Israel captured the women of Midian and their little ones; and all their cattle and all their flocks and all their goods they plundered. 10Then they burned all their cities where they lived and all their camps with fire. 11aAnd they took all the spoil and all the loot, both of man and of beast. 12And they brought the captives and the loot and the spoil to Moses and to Eleazar the priest and to the congregation of the sons of Israel, to the camp at the plains of Moab, which are by the Jordan opposite Jericho.
13And Moses and Eleazar the priest and all the leaders of the congregation went out to meet them outside the camp.