Numbers 31:6–13

⁶Moses sent one thousand from each tribe to war. They went with Phinehas son of Eleazar the priest, in whose care were the holy objects and signal trumpets.

⁷They waged war against Midian, as the Lord had commanded Moses, and killed every male.^{f 8}Along with the others slain by them, they killed the Midianite kings—Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba, the five kings of Midian.^a They also killed Balaam son of Beor^b with the sword. ⁹The Israelites took the Midianite women and their dependents captive, and they plundered all their cattle, flocks, and property.^{c 10}Then they burned all the cities where the Midianites lived, as well as all their encampments, ¹¹and took away all the spoils of war and the captives, both people and animals. ¹²They brought the prisoners, animals, and spoils of war to Moses, the priest Eleazar, and the Israelite community at the camp on the plains of Moab by the Jordan across from Jericho.

¹³Moses, the priest Eleazar, and all the leaders of the community went to meet them outside the camp.