Num 31
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And YHWH spoke to Moses, saying,
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Avenge the children of Israel of the Midianites: afterward shall you be gathered to
your people.
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And Moses spoke to the people, saying, Arm you men from among you for the war, that
they may go against Midian, to execute YHWH`s vengeance on Midian.
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Of every tribe a thousand, throughout all the tribes of Israel, shall you send to
the war.
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So there were delivered, out of the thousands of Israel, a thousand of every tribe,
twelve thousand armed for war.
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And Moses sent them, a 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.
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And they warred against Midian, as YHWH commanded Moses; and they slew every male.
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And they slew 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
slew with the sword.
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And 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.
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And all their cities in the places wherein they dwelt, and all their encampments,
they burnt with fire.
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And they took all the spoil, and all the prey, both of man and of beast.
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And 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.
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And Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and all the princes of the congregation, went forth
to meet them without the camp.
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And Moses was wroth with the officers of the host, the captains of thousands and the
captains of hundreds, who came from the service of the war.
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And Moses said to them, Have you saved all the women alive?
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Behold, these caused the children of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to commit
trespass against YHWH in the matter of Peor, and so the plague was among the congregation
of YHWH.
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Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that has
known man by lying with him.
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But all the women-children, that have not known man by lying with him, keep alive
for yourselves.
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And encamp you without 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.
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And 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.
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And Eleazar the priest said to the men of war that went to the battle, This is the
statute of the law which YHWH has commanded Moses:
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nevertheless the gold, and the silver, the brass, the iron, the tin, and the lead,
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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 abides not the fire you shall make to go through the water.
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And you shall wash your clothes on the seventh day, and you shall be clean; and afterward
you shall come into the camp.
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And YHWH spoke to Moses, saying,
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Take the sum of the prey that was taken, both of man and of beast, you, and Eleazar
the priest, and the heads of the fathers` [houses] of the congregation;
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and divide the prey into two parts: between the men skilled in war, that went out
to battle, and all the congregation.
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And levy a tribute to YHWH of the men of war that went out to battle: one soul of
five hundred, [both] of the persons, and of the oxen, and of the asses, and of the
flocks:
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take it of their half, and give it to Eleazar the priest, for YHWH`s heave-offering.
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And of the children of Israel`s half, you shall take one drawn out of every fifty,
of the persons, of the oxen, of the asses, and of the flocks, [even] of all the cattle,
and give them to the Levites, that keep the charge of the tabernacle of YHWH.
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And Moses and Eleazar the priest did as YHWH commanded Moses.
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Now the prey, over and above the booty which the men of war took, was six hundred
thousand and seventy thousand and five thousand sheep,
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and threescore and twelve thousand oxen,
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and threescore and one thousand asses,
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and thirty and two thousand persons in all, of the women that had not known man by
lying with him.
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And the half, which was the portion of them that went out to war, was in number three
hundred thousand and thirty thousand and seven thousand and five hundred sheep:
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and YHWH`s tribute of the sheep was six hundred and threescore and fifteen.
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And the oxen were thirty and six thousand; of which YHWH`s tribute was threescore
and twelve.
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And the asses were thirty thousand and five hundred; of which YHWH`s tribute was threescore
and one.
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And the persons were sixteen thousand; of whom YHWH`s tribute was thirty and two persons.
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And Moses gave the tribute, which was YHWH`s heave-offering, to Eleazar the priest,
as YHWH commanded Moses.
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And of the children of Israel`s half, which Moses divided off from the men that warred
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(now the congregation`s half was three hundred thousand and thirty thousand, seven
thousand and five hundred sheep,
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and thirty and six thousand oxen,
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and thirty thousand and five hundred asses,
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and sixteen thousand persons),
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even of the children of Israel`s half, Moses took one drawn out of every fifty, both
of man and of beast, and gave them to the Levites, that kept the charge of the tabernacle
of YHWH; as YHWH commanded Moses.
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And the officers that were over the thousands of the host, the captains of thousands,
and the captains of hundreds, came near to Moses;
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and they said to Moses, Your servants have taken the sum of the men of war that are
under our charge, and there lacks not one man of us.
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And we have brought YHWH`s oblation, 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 YHWH.
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And Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold of them, even all wrought jewels.
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And all the gold of the heave-offering that they offered up to YHWH, of the captains
of thousands, and of the captains of hundreds, was sixteen thousand seven hundred
and fifty shekels.
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([For] the men of war had taken booty, every man for himself.)
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And 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 YHWH.