31 Then Yahweh told Mosheh (Moses), 2 “Avenge the Midyanites for what they did to you Israelis. After that, you’ll go to join your ancestors.”

3 So Mosheh told the people, “Equip some of your men to battle against Midyan to execute Yahweh’s vengeance on them—4 one thousand men from each tribe to go to war.”

5 So a thousand men were conscripted from each tribe—twelve thousand equipped for battle 6 and Mosheh sent them off to war. The priest Pinehas (Eleazar’s son) went with them, taking some sacred objects as well as the signal trumpets. 7 Then they fought Midyan just as Yahweh had commanded Mosheh, and they killed every male. 8 Among them, they killed five Midyan kings: Evi, Rekem, Tsur, Hur, and Reva, in addition to Beor’s son Bileam (Balaam).

9 The Israelis took the Midyan women and children captive, and took all their cattle, sheep and goats, and all their possessions as plunder, 10 then they burnt down all their cities and houses and camps. 11 They took all the spoil and plunder including the people and animals back, 12 and brought it to Mosheh and the priest Eleazar, and to the assembled Israelis who were all still camped on the Moav plains beside the Yarden river opposite Yeriho (Jericho).