1The Lord said to Moses,
2“Before you die, make sure that the Midianites are punished for what they did to Israel.”
3Then Moses told the people, “The Lord wants to punish the Midianites. So tell our men to prepare for battle.
4Each tribe will send 1,000 men to fight.”
5Twelve thousand men were picked from the tribes of Israel, and after they were prepared for battle,
6Moses sent them off to war. Phinehas the son of Eleazar went with them and took along some things from the sacred tent and the trumpets for sounding the battle signal.
7The Israelites fought against the Midianites, just as the Lord had commanded Moses. They killed all the men,
8including Balaam son of Beor and the five Midianite kings, Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba.
9The Israelites captured every woman and child, then led away the Midianites' cattle and sheep, and took everything else that belonged to them.
10They also burned down the Midianite towns and villages.
11Israel's soldiers gathered together everything they had taken from the Midianites, including the captives and the animals.
12-13Then they returned to their own camp in the hills of Moab across the Jordan River from Jericho, where Moses, Eleazar, and the other Israelite leaders met the troops outside camp.
14Moses became angry with the army commanders
15and said, “I can't believe you let the women live!
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