Numbers 31:4-6

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

⁴ You shall send a thousand from each of the tribes of Israel to the war.’ ⁵ So out of the thousands of Israel, a thousand from each tribe were conscripted, twelve thousand armed for battle. ⁶ Moses sent them to the war, a thousand from each tribe, along with Phinehas son of Eleazar the priest,^[a] with the vessels of the sanctuary and the trumpets for sounding the alarm in his hand.