[1] Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, [2] Avenge the children of Israel of the
Midianites: afterward shall you be gathered to your people. [3] Moses spoke
to the people, saying, Arm you men from among you for the war, that they
may go against Midian, to execute Yahweh`s vengeance on Midian. [4] Of
every tribe one thousand, throughout all the tribes of Israel, shall you
send to the war. [5] So there were delivered, out of the thousands of
Israel, a thousand of every tribe, twelve thousand armed for war. [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. [7] They warred against Midian,
as Yahweh commanded Moses; and they killed every male. [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. [9] The children of Israel took captive the women of
Midian and their little ones; and all their cattle, and all their flocks,
and all their goods, they took for a prey. [10] All their cities in the
places in which they lived, and all their encampments, they burnt with
fire. [11] They took all the spoil, and all the prey, both of man and of
animal. [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. [13] Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and all the princes of the
congregation, went forth to meet them outside of the camp. [14] Moses was
angry with the officers of the host, the captains of thousands and the
captains of hundreds, who came from the service of the war. [15] Moses said
to them, Have you saved all the women alive? [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. [17] Now therefore kill every male among the little
ones, and kill every woman who has known man by lying with him. [18] But
all the girls, who have not known man by lying with him, keep alive for
yourselves. [19] Encamp you 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. [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. [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: [22] however the gold, and the
silver, the brass, the iron, the tin, and the lead, [23] everything that
may abide 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.
[24] You shall wash your clothes on the seventh day, and you shall be
clean; and afterward you shall come into the camp. [25] Yahweh spoke to
Moses, saying, [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; [27] and divide the prey into two parts:
between the men skilled in war, who went out to battle, and all the
congregation. [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
oxen, and of the donkeys, and of the flocks: [29] take it of their half,
and give it to Eleazar the priest, for Yahweh`s heave-offering. [30] Of the
children of Israel`s half, you shall take one drawn out of every fifty, of
the persons, of the oxen, of the donkeys, and of the flocks, [even] of all
the cattle, and give them to the Levites, who keep the charge of the tent
of Yahweh. [31] Moses and Eleazar the priest did as Yahweh commanded Moses.
[32] Now the prey, over and above the booty which the men of war took, was
six hundred seventy-five thousand sheep, [33] and seventy-two thousand
oxen, [34] and seventy-one thousand donkeys, [35] and thirty-two thousand
persons in all, of the women who had not known man by lying with him. [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: [37] and Yahweh`s
tribute of the sheep was six hundred seventy-five. [38] The oxen were
thirty-six thousand; of which Yahweh`s tribute was seventy-two. [39] The
donkeys were thirty thousand five hundred; of which Yahweh`s tribute was
sixty-one. [40] The persons were sixteen thousand; of whom Yahweh`s tribute
was thirty-two persons. [41] Moses gave the tribute, which was Yahweh`s
heave-offering, to Eleazar the priest, as Yahweh commanded Moses. [42] Of
the children of Israel`s half, which Moses divided off from the men who
warred [43] (now the congregation`s half was three hundred thirty-seven
thousand five hundred sheep, [44] and thirty-six thousand oxen, [45] and
thirty thousand five hundred donkeys, [46] and sixteen thousand persons),
[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
kept the charge of the tent of Yahweh; as Yahweh commanded Moses. [48] The
officers who were over the thousands of the host, the captains of
thousands, and the captains of hundreds, came near to Moses; [49] and they
said to Moses, Your servants have taken the sum of the men of war who are
under our charge, and there lacks not one man of us. [50] We have brought
Yahweh`s offering, what every man has gotten, of jewels of gold,
ankle-chains, and bracelets, signet-rings, ear-rings, and armlets, to make
atonement for our souls before Yahweh. [51] Moses and Eleazar the priest
took the gold of them, even all worked jewels. [52] All the gold of the
heave-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. [53] ([For] the men of war had taken booty, every
man for himself.) [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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