VIN(i)
1 the LORD said to Moses:
2 "Seek vengeance for the Israelites on the Midianites; afterward you will be gathered to your people."
3 Moses said to the people: "Your men must get ready to go to war against the Midianites. the LORD will use them to get even with Midian.
4 "Send one thousand men from each of the tribes of Israel."
5 So theywere assigned from the thousands of Israel, a thousand from each tribe, twelve thousand equipped for battle.
6 Moses sent them, one thousand of every tribe, to the war with Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, to the war, with the vessels of the sanctuary and the trumpets for the alarm in his hand.
7 They fought against Midian, as the LORD commanded Moses. They 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. They also killed Balaam the son of Beor with the sword.
9 The Israelites took the Midianite women and children as prisoners of war. They also took all their animals, their livestock, and their valuables as loot.
10 They burned the cities where the Midianites lived and all their settlements.
11 They took everything as loot including all the people and animals,
12 They brought the captives, the war-booty, and the plunder to Moses, and to Eleazar the priest, and to the community of the Israelites, to the camp to the desert-plateau of Moab, which was on the Jordan across Jericho.