Numbers 31:3-5

Holman Christian Standard Bible

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 1,000 men to war from each Israelite tribe.” ⁵ So 1,000 were recruited from each Israelite tribe out of the thousands^[a] in Israel—12,000 equipped for war.