Numbers 31:2-6 »Get even with the Midianites for what they did to the Israelites. After that you will join your ancestors in death.«

NSB⁽ⁱ⁾ ² »Get even with the Midianites for what they did to the Israelites. After that you will join your ancestors in death.« ³ Moses said to the people: »Your men must get ready to go to war against the Midianites. Jehovah will use them to get even with Midian. ⁴ »Send one thousand men from each of the tribes of Israel.« ⁵ Thus one thousand men from each tribe were supplied from the divisions of Israel, twelve thousand men ready for war. ⁶ Moses sent them off to war. There were one thousand men from each tribe along with Phinehas, son of the priest Eleazar. Phinehas took with him the holy articles and the trumpets for the fanfare.