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Numbers 31:5-8 English Standard Version (ESV)

5. So there were provided, out of the thousands of Israel, a thousand from each tribe, twelve thousand armed for war.

6. And Moses sent them to the war, a thousand from each tribe, together with Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, with the vessels of the sanctuary and the trumpets for the alarm in his hand.

7. They warred against Midian, as the Lord commanded Moses, and killed every male.

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

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