The First Book of Moses, Commonly Called Numbers (WEB)
31: 1Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, 31:2Avenge the children of Israel of the Midianites:
afterward you shall be gathered to your people. 31:3Moses 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. 31:4Of every tribe one thousand, throughout all the tribes of Israel, shall you
send to the war. 31:5So there were delivered, out of the thousands of Israel, a thousand of every
tribe, twelve thousand armed for war. 31:6Moses 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. 31:7They warred against Midian, as Yahweh commanded
Moses; and they killed every male. 31:8They 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. 31:9The 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.
31:10All their cities in the places in which they lived, and all their encampments, they burnt with
fire. 31:11They took all the spoil, and all the prey, both of man and of animal. 31:12They 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.
31:13Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and all the princes of the congregation, went forth to meet them
outside of the camp. 31:14Moses 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. 31:15Moses said to them, Have
you saved all the women alive? 31:16Behold, 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. 31:17Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and
kill every woman who has known man by lying with him. 31:18But all the girls, who have not
known man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves. 31:19Encamp 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. 31:20As 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. 31:21Eleazar 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: 31:22however the gold, and the silver, the brass,
the iron, the tin, and the lead, 31:23everything 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. 31:24You shall wash your
clothes on the seventh day, and you shall be clean; and afterward you shall come into the camp.
31:25Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, 31:26Take 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;
31:27and divide the prey into two parts: between the men skilled in war, who went out to battle, and
all the congregation. 31:28Levy 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:
31:29take it of their half, and give it to Eleazar the priest, for Yahweh's heave-offering. 31:30Of 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. 31:31Moses and Eleazar the priest did as Yahweh commanded Moses.
31:32Now the prey, over and above the booty which the men of war took, was six hundred
seventy-five thousand sheep, 31:33and seventy-two thousand oxen, 31:34and seventy-one thousand
donkeys, 31:35and thirty-two thousand persons in all, of the women who had not known man by
lying with him. 31:36The half, which was the portion of those who went out to war, was in number
three hundred thirty-seven thousand five hundred sheep: 31:37and Yahweh's tribute of the sheep was
six hundred seventy-five. 31:38The oxen were thirty-six thousand; of which Yahweh's tribute was
seventy-two. 31:39The donkeys were thirty thousand five hundred; of which Yahweh's tribute was
sixty-one. 31:40The persons were sixteen thousand; of whom Yahweh's tribute was thirty-two
persons. 31:41Moses gave the tribute, which was Yahweh's heave-offering, to Eleazar the priest, as
Yahweh commanded Moses. 31:42Of the children of Israel's half, which Moses divided off from the
men who warred 31:43(now the congregation's half was three hundred thirty-seven thousand five
hundred sheep, 31:44and thirty-six thousand oxen, 31:45and thirty thousand five hundred donkeys,
31:46and sixteen thousand persons), 31:47even 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. 31:48The officers who were over the
thousands of the host, the captains of thousands, and the captains of hundreds, came near to
Moses; 31:49and 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. 31:50We 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. 31:51Moses and Eleazar the priest took the
gold of them, even all worked jewels. 31:52All 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. 31:53(For the men of war had taken booty, every man for himself.)
31:54Moses 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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