⁵ They came up with their livestock and their tents like swarms of locusts.^(A) It was impossible to count them or their camels;^(B) they invaded the land to ravage it.

¹² The Midianites, the Amalekites^(A) and all the other eastern peoples had settled in the valley, thick as locusts.^(B) Their camels^(C) could no more be counted than the sand on the seashore.^(D)