Numbers 31:1-4 ▼

1 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

2 “Avenge the children of Israel on the Midianites. Afterward you shall be gathered to your people.”

3 Moses spoke to the people, saying, “Arm men from among you for war, that they may go against Midian, to execute Yahweh’s vengeance on Midian.

4 You shall send one thousand out of every tribe, throughout all the tribes of Israel, to the war.”