Numbers 31:3-5

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

³ So Moses spoke to the people, ‘Equip some of your men for war. They will go against Midian to inflict the Lord’s vengeance^(A) on them. ⁴ Send one thousand men to war from each Israelite tribe.’ ⁵ So one thousand were recruited from each Israelite tribe out of the thousands^[a] in Israel – twelve thousand equipped for war.