Numbers:31

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* Then spake Yahweh unto Moses , saying : * Exact thou the avenging of the sons of Israel , from the Midianites , and , afterwards , shalt thou be withdrawn unto thy kinsfolk . * So Moses spake unto the people saying , Arm ye from among you men , for the war , and let them go against Midian , to render the avenging of Yahweh upon Midian . * A thousand from each tribe , of all the tribes of Israel , shall ye send forth unto the war . * And there volunteered out of the thousands of Israel , a thousand of each tribe , twelve thousand , armed for war . * And Moses sent them a thousand of each tribe to the war , them , and Phinehas son of Eleazar the priest , to the war , with the vessels of the sanctuary , and the alarm trumpets , in his hand . * So they made war upon Midian , as Yahweh had commanded Moses , and slew every male : * and the kings of Midian , slew they besides their other slain namely , Evi , and Rekem , and Zur , and Hur , and Reba , five kings of Midian , Balaam also , son of Beor , slew they with the sword . * And the sons of Israel took captive the women of Midian and their little ones , all their cattle also and all their flocks and all their substance , carried they off as a prey ; * all their cities also in their sites , and all their encampments , burned they up with fire . * Then took they all the spoil , and all the booty , both of man and beast ; * and brought in unto Moses and unto Eleazar the priest and unto the assembly of the sons of Israelthe captives and the booty , and the spoil unto the camp , unto the waste plains of Moab , which are by Jordan , near Jericho . * And Moses , and Eleazar the priest and all the princes of the assembly , went forth to meet them , unto the outside of the camp . * Then was Moses sore displeased with the officers of the force , the princes of thousands , and the princes of hundreds who were coming in from the warring host . * And Moses said unto them , Have ye saved alive every female ? * Lo ! they , became unto the sons of Israel , by the advice of Balaam , the cause of daring acts of treachery against Yahweh , over the affair of Peor , and then came the plague against the assembly of Yahweh ! * Now , therefore , slay ye every male among the young , every woman also that hath cohabited with man , slay ye . * But all the young of womankind that hay , not cohabited with man , preserve alive for yourselves . * Ye , then , pitch outside the camp , for seven days , whosoever hath killed a person and whoever hath touched the slain , cleanse yourselves (from sin ) on the third day and on the seventh day ye and your captives ,. * Every garment also , and every article of skin and every thing made of goats-hair , and every article of wood , shall ye cleanse (from sin ). * Then said Eleazar the priest unto the men of the host , who had been to the war : This , is the statute of the law , which Yahweh hath commanded Moses : * Surely the gold and the silver , the bronze the iron , the tin and the lead , * whatsoever thing can go into fire , ye shall pass through fire and it shall be clean , only with the water of separation , shall ye cleanse it (from sin ). But whatsoever cannot go into fire , ye shall pass through water . * And ye shall wash your clothes on the seventh day , and be clean , and after-wards , shall ye come into the camp . * Then spake Yahweh unto Moses , saying : * Reckon thou up the sum of the booty that was captured , both of man and of beat , thou and Eleazar the priest , and the ancestral heads of the assembly ; * and divide the booty into two parts , between them who took upon them the war , who went out in the host , and all the assembly . * Then shalt thou levy a tribute unto Yahwehfrom the men of war , who went forth in the host , one living thing , out of five hundred , of the human beings , and of the herd , and of the asses and of the flock : * out of their half , shall ye take unto Eleazar the priest as a heave-offering unto Yahweh . * And out of the half allotted to the sons of Israel , shalt thou take one allotted portion out of fifty of the human beings , of the herd , of the asses and of the flock of all b the cattle , and shalt give them unto the Levites , who keep the charge of the habitation of Yahweh . * And Moses and Eleazar the priest did , As Yahweh commanded Moses . * And it came to pass that the booty , over and above the prey which the people of the host had seized , was , of the flock , six hundred and seventy-five thousand ; * and , of the herd , seventy-two thousand ; * and , of the asses , sixty-one thousand ; * and , of the human persons , even of the woman-kind who had not cohabited with man , all the per-sons , thirty-two thousand . * And the half , the share of them who had gone forth in the host , was , the number of the flockthree hundred and thirty-seven thousand and five hundred ; * and so , the tribute unto Yahweh , out of the flock , wassix hundred and seventy-five ; * and the herd , thirty-six thousand , and the tribute of them unto Yahwehseventy-two ; * and the asses , thirty thousand and five hundred , and the tribute of them unto Yahweh , sixty-one ; * and the human persons , sixteen thousand , and the tribute of them unto Yahweh , thirty-two persons . * And Moses gave the tributethe heave-offering of Yahweh , unto Eleazar the priest , As Yahweh commanded Moses . * And , of the half , allotted unto the sons of Israel , which Moses halved away from the men who had gone out in the host , * the half allotted unto the assembly , wasof the flock , three hundred and thirty-seven thousand , and five hundred ; * and , of the herd , six and thirty thousand ; * and , of asses , thirty thousand and five hundred ; * and , human persons , sixteen thousand . * So then Moses tookout of the half belonging to the sons of Israel the allotted portion one out of fifty , of the human beings and of the beasts , and gave them unto the Levites , the keepers of the charge of the habitation of Yahweh , As Yahweh commanded Moses . * Then came near unto Moses the officers who belonged unto the thousands of the host , the princes of thousands and the princes of hundreds ; * and said unto Moses , Thy servants have reckoned up the sum of the men of war who are in our hand , and there is not missed from among us , a man ! * Therefore have we brought near an offering unto Yahweh , what , each man , hath foundarticles of gold , ankle chains and bracelets , rings earrings and buckles , to put a propitiatory-covering over our souls before Yahweh . * So Moses , and Eleazar the priest took the gold of them , all the wrought articles . * And all the gold of the heave-offering which they offered up unto Yahweh , wassixteen thousand seven hundred and fifty shekels , of the princes of thousands , and of the princes of hundreds . * The men of the host , had taken prey , each man for himself . * So then Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold of the princes of thousands , and hundreds , and brought it into the tent of meeting , as a memorial for the sons of Israel before Yahweh .

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