Numbers 31:2-4

21st Century King James Version

² “Avenge the children of Israel on the Midianites. Afterward shalt thou be gathered unto thy people.”

³ And Moses spoke unto the people, saying, “Arm some of yourselves unto the war, and let them go against the Midianites and avenge the Lord on Midian.

⁴ From every tribe a thousand, throughout all the tribes of Israel, shall ye send to the war.”