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* And the Lorde spake vnto Moses , saying , * Reuenge the children of Israel of the Midianites , and afterwarde shalt thou be gathered vnto thy people . * And Moses spake unto the people , saying , Arm some of yourselves unto the war , and let them go (note :)As he had commanded in ( Num_25:17 ), declaring also that the injury done against his people is done against him .(:note ) against the Midianites , and avenge the LORD of Midian . * A thousande of euery tribe throughout all the tribes of Israel , shall ye sende to the warre . * So there were taken out of the thousands of Israel , twelue thousande prepared vnto warre , of euery tribe a thousand . * And Moses sent them to the war , a thousand of [every ] tribe , them and (note :)For his great zeal that he bare for the Lord , ( Num_25:13 ).(:note ) Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest , to the war , with the holy instruments , and the trumpets to blow in his hand . * And they warred against Midian , as the Lorde had commaunded Moses , and slue all the males . * And they slew the kings of Midian , beside the rest of them that were slain ; [namely ], Evi , and Rekem , and Zur , and Hur , and Reba , five kings of Midian : (note :)The false prophet who gave counsel how to cause the Israelites to offend their God .(:note ) Balaam also the son of Beor they slew with the sword . * But the children of Israel tooke the women of Midian prisoners , and their children , and spoyled all their cattell , and all their flockes , and all their goods . * And they burnt all their cities , wherein they dwelt , and all their villages with fire . * And they tooke all the spoyle and all the pray both of men and beastes . * And they brought the (note :)As the women and little children .(:note ) captives , and the prey , and the spoil , unto Moses , and Eleazar the priest , and unto the congregation of the children of Israel , unto the camp at the plains of Moab , which [are ] by Jordan [near ] Jericho . * Then Moses and Eleazar the Priest , and all the princes of the Congregation went out of the campe to meete them . * And Moses was angry with the captaines of the hoste , with the captaines ouer thousands , and captaines ouer hundreds , which came from the warre and battel . * And Moses said unto them , Have ye saved all the (note :)As though he said , you should have spared none .(:note ) women alive ? * Behold , these caused the children of Israel , through the counsel of Balaam , to commit trespass against the LORD (note :)For worshipping of Peor .(:note ) in the matter of Peor , and there was a plague among the congregation of the LORD . * Now therefore kill every male among the (note :)That is , all the boy children .(:note ) little ones , and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him . * But all the women children that haue not knowen carnall copulation , keepe aliue for your selues . * And ye shal remaine without the host seuen dayes , all that haue killed any person , and all that haue touched any dead , and purifie both your selues and your prisoners the third day and the seuenth . * Also ye shall purifie euery garment and all that is made of skins &amp ; al worke of goates heare , and all things made of wood . * And Eleazar ye Priest sayd vnto the men of warre , which went to the battel , This is the ordinance of the law which the Lorde commanded Moses , * As for gold , and siluer , brasse , yron , tynne , and lead : * Every thing that may abide the fire , ye shall make [it ] go through the fire , and it shall be clean : nevertheless it shall be (note :)The third day and before it is molten .(:note ) purified with the water of separation : and all that abideth not the fire ye shall make go through the It shall be washed . water . * Ye shal wash also your clothes the seuenth day , and ye shalbe cleane : and afterward ye shal come into the Hoste . * And the Lord spake vnto Moses , saying , * Take the summe of the praie that was taken , both of persons and of cattell , thou and Eleazar the Priest , and the chiefe fathers of the Congregation . * And deuide the praye betweene the souldiers that went to the warre , and all the Congregation . * And levy a tribute unto the LORD of the (note :)Of the prey that falls to the soldiers .(:note ) men of war which went out to battle : one soul of five hundred , [both ] of the persons , and of the beeves , and of the asses , and of the sheep : * Yee shall take it of their halfe and giue it vnto Eleazar the Priest , as an heaue offring of the Lorde . * And of the children of Israel 's half , thou shalt take (note :)The Israelites who had not been at war , of every fiftieth paid one to the Lord : and the soldiers one of every five hundred .(:note ) one portion of fifty , of the persons , of the beeves , of the asses , and of the flocks , of all manner of beasts , and give them unto the Levites , which keep the charge of the tabernacle of the LORD . * And Moses and Eleazar the priest did as the Lord had commanded Moses . * And the bootie , to wit , the rest of the praie which the men of warre had spoyled , was sixe hundreth seuentie and fiue thousand sheepe , * And seuentie and two thousand beeues , * And three score and one thousand asses , * And two and thirtie thousande persons in all , of women that had lyen by no man . * And the halfe , to wit , the part of them that went out to warre touching the nomber of sheepe , was three hundreth seuen and thirtie thousand , and fiue hundreth . * And the (note :)This is the portion that the soldiers gave to the Lord .(:note ) LORD 'S tribute of the sheep was six hundred and threescore and fifteen . * And the beeues were six &amp ; thirty thousad , whereof the Lordes tribute was seuentie &amp ; two . * And the asses were thirtie thousande and fiue hundreth , whereof the Lordes tribute was three score and one : * And (note :)Meaning , of the maids , or virgins who had not slept with a man .(:note ) the persons [were ] sixteen thousand ; of which the LORD 'S tribute [was ] thirty and two persons . * And Moses gaue the tribute of the Lordes offring vnto Eleazar the Priest , as the Lorde had commanded Moses . * And of the children of Israel 's (note :)Of that part which was given to them in dividing the spoil .(:note ) half , which Moses divided from the men that warred , * (For the halfe that perteined vnto the Congregation , was three hundreth thirtie and seuen thousand sheepe and fiue hundreth , * And sixe and thirtie thousand beeues , * And thirtie thousand asses , &amp ; fiue hudreth , * And sixteene thousande persons ) * Even of the (note :)Which had not been at war .(:note ) children of Israel 's half , Moses took one portion of fifty , [both ] of man and of beast , and gave them unto the Levites , which kept the charge of the tabernacle of the LORD ; as the LORD commanded Moses . * Then the captaines which were ouer thousandes of the hoste , the captaines ouer the thousandes , and the captaines ouer the hundreds came vnto Moses : * And saide to Moses , Thy seruants haue taken the summe of the men of warre which are vnder our authoritie , and there lacketh not one man of vs . * * And Moses and Eleazar the Priest tooke the golde of them , and all wrought iewels , * And all the golde of the offring that they offered vp to the Lorde (of the captaines ouer thousands and hundreds ) was sixteene thousande seuen hundreth and fiftie shekels , * ([For ] the men of war had taken spoil , every man for (note :)And gave no portion to their captains .(:note ) himself .) * And Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold of the captains of thousands and of hundreds , and brought it into the tabernacle of the congregation , [for ] a (note :)that the Lord might remember the children of Israel .(:note ) memorial for the children of Israel before the LORD .

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