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Verse 1

Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

Verse 2

"Avenge the children of Israel for the Midianites. Afterward you shall be gathered to your people."

Verse 3

Moses spoke to the people, saying, "Arm men from among you for the war, that they may go against Midian, to execute Yahweh's vengeance on Midian.

Verse 4

Of every tribe one thousand, throughout all the tribes of Israel, you shall send to the war."

Verse 5

So there were delivered, out of the thousands of Israel, a thousand of every tribe, twelve thousand armed for war.

Verse 6

Moses sent them, one thousand of every tribe, to the war, them and Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, to the war, with the vessels of the sanctuary and the trumpets for the alarm in his hand.

Verse 7

They warred against Midian, as Yahweh commanded Moses; and they killed every male.

Verse 8

They killed the kings of Midian with the rest of their slain: Evi, and Rekem, and Zur, and Hur, and Reba, the five kings of Midian: Balaam also the son of Beor they killed with the sword.

Verse 9

The children of Israel took captive the women of Midian and their little ones; and all their livestock, and all their flocks, and all their goods, they took for a prey.

Verse 10

All their cities in the places in which they lived, and all their encampments, they burnt with fire.

Verse 11

They took all the spoil, and all the prey, both of man and of animal.

Verse 12

They brought the captives, and the prey, and the spoil, to Moses, and to Eleazar the priest, and to the congregation of the children of Israel, to the camp at the plains of Moab, which are by the Jordan at Jericho.

Verse 13

Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and all the princes of the congregation, went forth to meet them outside of the camp.

Verse 14

Moses was angry with the officers of the army, the captains of thousands and the captains of hundreds, who came from the service of the war.

Verse 15

Moses said to them, "Have you saved all the women alive?

Verse 16

Behold, these caused the children of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to commit trespass against Yahweh in the matter of Peor, and so the plague was among the congregation of Yahweh.

Verse 17

Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who has known man by lying with him.

Verse 18

But all the girls, who have not known man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.

Verse 19

"Encamp outside of the camp seven days: whoever has killed any person, and whoever has touched any slain, purify yourselves on the third day and on the seventh day, you and your captives.

Verse 20

As to every garment, and all that is made of skin, and all work of goats' [hair], and all things made of wood, you shall purify yourselves."

Verse 21

Eleazar the priest said to the men of war who went to the battle, "This is the statute of the law which Yahweh has commanded Moses:

Verse 22

however the gold, and the silver, the brass, the iron, the tin, and the lead,

Verse 23

everything that may withstand the fire, you shall make to go through the fire, and it shall be clean; nevertheless it shall be purified with the water for impurity: and all that doesn't withstand the fire you shall make to go through the water.

Verse 24

You shall wash your clothes on the seventh day, and you shall be clean; and afterward you shall come into the camp."

Verse 25

Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

Verse 26

"Take the sum of the prey that was taken, both of man and of animal, you, and Eleazar the priest, and the heads of the fathers' [houses] of the congregation;

Verse 27

and divide the prey into two parts: between the men skilled in war, who went out to battle, and all the congregation.

Verse 28

Levy a tribute to Yahweh of the men of war who went out to battle: one soul of five hundred, [both] of the persons, and of the cattle, and of the donkeys, and of the flocks:

Verse 29

take it of their half, and give it to Eleazar the priest, for Yahweh's wave offering.

Verse 30

Of the children of Israel's half, you shall take one drawn out of every fifty, of the persons, of the cattle, of the donkeys, and of the flocks, [even] of all the livestock, and give them to the Levites, who perform the duty of the tabernacle of Yahweh."

Verse 31

Moses and Eleazar the priest did as Yahweh commanded Moses.

Verse 32

Now the prey, over and above the booty which the men of war took, was six hundred seventy-five thousand sheep,

Verse 33

and seventy-two thousand head of cattle,

Verse 34

and sixty-one thousand donkeys,

Verse 35

and thirty-two thousand persons in all, of the women who had not known man by lying with him.

Verse 36

The half, which was the portion of those who went out to war, was in number three hundred thirty-seven thousand five hundred sheep:

Verse 37

and Yahweh's tribute of the sheep was six hundred seventy-five.

Verse 38

The cattle were thirty-six thousand; of which Yahweh's tribute was seventy-two.

Verse 39

The donkeys were thirty thousand five hundred; of which Yahweh's tribute was sixty-one.

Verse 40

The persons were sixteen thousand; of whom Yahweh's tribute was thirty-two persons.

Verse 41

Moses gave the tribute, which was Yahweh's wave offering, to Eleazar the priest, as Yahweh commanded Moses.

Verse 42

Of the children of Israel's half, which Moses divided off from the men who warred

Verse 43

(now the congregation's half was three hundred thirty-seven thousand five hundred sheep,

Verse 44

and thirty-six thousand head of cattle,

Verse 45

and thirty thousand five hundred donkeys,

Verse 46

and sixteen thousand persons),

Verse 47

even of the children of Israel's half, Moses took one drawn out of every fifty, both of man and of animal, and gave them to the Levites, who performed the duty of the tabernacle of Yahweh; as Yahweh commanded Moses.

Verse 48

The officers who were over the thousands of the army, the captains of thousands, and the captains of hundreds, came near to Moses;

Verse 49

and they said to Moses, "Your servants have taken the sum of the men of war who are under our command, and there lacks not one man of us.

Verse 50

We have brought Yahweh's offering, what every man has gotten, of jewels of gold, armlets, and bracelets, signet rings, earrings, and necklaces, to make atonement for our souls before Yahweh."

Verse 51

Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold of them, even all worked jewels.

Verse 52

All the gold of the wave offering that they offered up to Yahweh, of the captains of thousands, and of the captains of hundreds, was sixteen thousand seven hundred fifty shekels.

Verse 53

([For] the men of war had taken booty, every man for himself.)

Verse 54

Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold of the captains of thousands and of hundreds, and brought it into the Tent of Meeting, for a memorial for the children of Israel before Yahweh.

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