The Slaughter of Midian

31 Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, (A)Take vengeance on the Midianites for the sons of Israel; afterward you will be (B)gathered to your people.” So Moses spoke to the people, saying, “Arm men from among you for the war, so that they may [a]go against Midian to execute (C)the Lords vengeance on Midian. You shall send a thousand from each tribe of all the tribes of Israel to the war.” So there were selected from the thousands of Israel, a thousand from each tribe, twelve thousand armed for war. And Moses sent them, a thousand from each tribe, to the war, and Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, to the war with them, (D)and the holy implements and (E)the trumpets for the alarm in his hand. So they made war against Midian, just as the Lord had commanded Moses, and (F)they killed every male.

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