rsv Numbers:31:2-6
rsv@Numbers:31:2 @ "Avenge the people of Israel on the Mid'ianites; afterward you shall be gathered to your people."
rsv@Numbers:31:3 @ And Moses said to the people, "Arm men from among you for the war, that they may go against Mid'ian, to execute the LORD's vengeance on Mid'ian.
rsv@Numbers:31:4 @ You shall send a thousand from each of the tribes of Israel to the war."
rsv@Numbers:31:5 @ So there were provided, out of the thousands of Israel, a thousand from each tribe, twelve thousand armed for war.
rsv@Numbers:31:6 @ And Moses sent them to the war, a thousand from each tribe, together with Phin'ehas the son of Elea'zar the priest, with the vessels of the sanctuary and the trumpets for the alarm in his hand.