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2 Avenge the sons of Israel with vengeance on the Midianites; and afterward you shall be gathered to your people.
3 Then Moses spoke to the people, saying:Outfit men from among you as a militia host that they may come against Midian to deliver the vengeance of Yahweh on Midian.
4 A thousand per stock, a thousand per stock from all the stocks of Israel shall you send as the militia host.
5 So they withdrew from the thousands of Israel a thousand per stock, twelve thousand outfitted as the militia host.
6 Then Moses sent them out, a thousand per stock, as the militia host, and with them Phineas son of Eleazar the priest for the militia host, with the furnishings of the sanctuary and the bugles for the blast in his hand.
7 They rallied against the Midian just as Yahweh had instructed Moses, and they killed every male.
8 As for the kings of Midian, they killed them along with their men wounded to death:Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur and Reba, five kings of Midian. Also Balaam son of Beor they killed with the sword.
9 The sons of Israel captured the women of Midian and their little ones; they plundered all their beasts, all their cattle and all their estate.
10 All their walled cities with their dwellings and all their nomadic domiciles they burned with fire.
11 They took all the loot and all the booty, including human and beast.
12 Then they brought the captives and the booty and the loot, to Moses and to Eleazar the priest and to all the congregation of the sons of Israel, at the camp, on the plains of Moab which are along the Jordan across from Jericho.