Coverdale(i)
1 And the LORDE spake vnto Moses, & sayde:
2 Auenge the childre of Israel of the Madianites, yt thou mayest afterwarde be gathered vnto yi people.
3 The spake Moses vnto the people, & sayde: Harnesse some men amonge you to the warre agaynst the Madianites (yt they maye auenge ye LORDE vpon the Madianites)
4 out of euery trybe a thousande, yt out of euery trybe of Israel ye maye sende some to the battayll.
5 And from amonge the thousandes of Israel they toke one thousande out of euery tribe, euen twolue thousande prepared vnto the battayll.
6 And Moses sent them with Phineas the sonne of Eleasar the prest in to the battayll, and the holy vessels and ye trompettes to blowe in his hande.
7 And they fought agaynst ye Madianites as ye LORDE comaunded Moses, & slew all ye males,
8 & the kynge of the Madianites slew they also amonge the other that were slaine namely, Eui, Rekem, Zur, Hur and Reba, the fyue kynges of the Madianites. And they slew Balaam the sonne of Beor wt the swerde.
9 And ye children of Israel toke the wemen of the Madianites presoners, & their childre: all their catell, all their substaunce, and all their goodes spoiled they,
10 and all their cities of their dwellynges & castels burnt they wt fyre.
11 And they toke all ye spoyles, & all yt they coulde catche men & catell,
12 and brought the vnto Moses & to Eleasar the prest, and to ye congregacion of the children of Israel (namely ye presoners, and the catell yt were take, and the good that was spoyled) in to the hoost in the felde of the Moabites, which lyeth besyde Iordane ouer against Iericho.