Numbers 31:3-5

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

³ And Moses forthwith said: Arm of you men to fight, who may take the revenge of the Lord on the Madianites.

⁴ Let a thousand men be chosen out of every tribe of Israel to be sent to the war.

⁵ And they gave a thousand of every tribe, that is to say, twelve thousand men well appointed for battle.