^{2 Ref} Avenge the children of Israel of the Midianites: afterward you shall be gathered to your people.

^{3 Ref} Moses spoke to the people, saying, Arm you men from among you for the war, that they may go against Midian, to execute Yahweh's vengeance on Midian.

^{4 Ref} Of every tribe one thousand, throughout all the tribes of Israel, shall you send to the war.

⁵ So there were delivered, out of the thousands of Israel, a thousand of every tribe, twelve thousand armed for war.

^{6 Ref} Moses sent them, one thousand of every tribe, to the war, them and Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, to the war, with the vessels of the sanctuary and the trumpets for the alarm in his hand.

^{7 Ref} They warred against Midian, as Yahweh commanded Moses; and they killed every male.

^{8 Ref} They killed the kings of Midian with the rest of their slain: Evi, and Rekem, and Zur, and Hur, and Reba, the five kings of Midian: Balaam also the son of Beor they killed with the sword.

^{9 Ref} The children of Israel took captive the women of Midian and their little ones; and all their cattle, and all their flocks, and all their goods, they took for a prey.

^{10 Ref} All their cities in the places in which they lived, and all their encampments, they burnt with fire.

^{11 Ref} They took all the spoil, and all the prey, both of man and of animal.

^{12 Ref} They brought the captives, and the prey, and the spoil, to Moses, and to Eleazar the priest, and to the congregation of the children of Israel, to the camp at the plains of Moab, which are by the Jordan at Jericho.