4. A thousand from each tribe of every tribe of Israel you will send to battle.”
5. So theywere assigned from the thousands of Israel, a thousand from each tribe, twelve thousand equipped for battle.
6. Moses sent them, a thousand from each tribe, to the battle, and Phinehas son of Eleazar the priest to the battle with them, and the vessels of the sanctuary and the trumpets of the blast were in his hand.
7. And they fought against Midian just as Yahweh commanded Moses, and they killed every male.
8. They killed the kings of Midian in addition to the ones they had slain: Evi and Rekem and Zur and Hur and Reba, the five kings of Midian; they also killed Balaam son of Beor by the sword.