Numbers 31:3 DBY

¹  And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,

²  Avenge the children of Israel upon the Midianites; afterwards shalt thou be gathered unto thy peoples.

³  And Moses spoke to the people, saying, Arm from amongst you men for military service, that they go against Midian to execute Jehovah's vengeance upon Midian.

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

⁵  And there were levied out of the thousands of Israel, a thousand by tribe, twelve thousand armed for war.