NU-31:1  And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,

NU-31:2  Avenge the children of Israel of the Midianites:

afterward shalt thou

be gathered unto thy people.

NU-31:3  And Moses spake unto the people, saying, Arm some of

yourselves unto

the war, and let them go against the Midianites, and avenge the

LORD of

Midian.

NU-31:4  Of every tribe a thousand, throughout all the tribes of

Israel, shall

ye send to the war.

NU-31:5  So there were delivered out of the thousands of Israel,

a thousand of

[every] tribe, twelve thousand armed for war.

NU-31:6  And Moses sent them to the war, a thousand of [every]

tribe, them and

Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, to the war, with the

holy instruments,

and the trumpets to blow in his hand.

NU-31:7  And they warred against the Midianites, as the LORD

commanded Moses;

and they slew all the males.

NU-31:8  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: Balaam also the son of Beor they slew with the sword.

NU-31:9  And the children of Israel took [all] the women of

Midian captives,

and their little ones, and took the spoil of all their cattle,

and all their

flocks, and all their goods.

NU-31:10  And they burnt all their cities wherein they dwelt,

and all their

goodly castles, with fire.

NU-31:11  And they took all the spoil, and all the prey, [both]

of men and of

beasts.

NU-31:12  And they brought the 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.

NU-31:13  And Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and all the princes

of the

congregation, went forth to meet them without the camp.

NU-31:14  And Moses was wroth with the officers of the host,

[with] the

captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, which came

from the

battle.

NU-31:15  And Moses said unto them, Have ye saved all the women

alive?

NU-31:16  Behold, these caused the children of Israel, through

the counsel of

Balaam, to commit trespass against the LORD in the matter of

Peor, and there

was a plague among the congregation of the LORD.

NU-31:17  Now therefore kill every male among the little ones,

and kill every

woman that hath known man by lying with him.

NU-31:18  But all the women children, that have not known a man

by lying with

him, keep alive for yourselves.

NU-31:19  And do ye abide without the camp seven days: whosoever

hath killed

any person, and whosoever hath touched any slain, purify [both]

yourselves and

your captives on the third day, and on the seventh day.

NU-31:20  And purify all [your] raiment, and all that is made of

skins, and

all work of goats' [hair], and all things made of wood.

NU-31:21  And Eleazar the priest said unto the men of war which

went to the

battle, This [is] the ordinance of the law which the LORD

commanded Moses;

NU-31:22  Only the gold, and the silver, the brass, the iron,

the tin, and the

lead,

NU-31:23  Every thing that may abide the fire, ye shall make

[it] go through

the fire, and it shall be clean: nevertheless it shall be

purified with the

water of separation: and all that abideth not the fire ye shall

make go

through the water.

NU-31:24  And ye shall wash your clothes on the seventh day, and

ye shall be

clean, and afterward ye shall come into the camp.

NU-31:25  And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,

NU-31:26  Take the sum of the prey that was taken, [both] of man

and of beast,

thou, and Eleazar the priest, and the chief fathers of the

congregation:

NU-31:27  And divide the prey into two parts; between them that

took the war

upon them, who went out to battle, and between all the

congregation:

NU-31:28  And levy a tribute unto the LORD of the 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:

NU-31:29  Take [it] of their half, and give [it] unto Eleazar

the priest,

[for] an heave offering of the LORD.

NU-31:30  And of the children of Israel's half, thou shalt take

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.

NU-31:31  And Moses and Eleazar the priest did as the LORD

commanded Moses.

NU-31:32  And the booty, [being] the rest of the prey which the

men of war had

caught, was six hundred thousand and seventy thousand and five

thousand sheep,

NU-31:33  And threescore and twelve thousand beeves,

NU-31:34  And threescore and one thousand asses,

NU-31:35  And thirty and two thousand persons in all, of women

that had not

known man by lying with him.

NU-31:36  And the half, [which was] the portion of them that

went out to war,

was in number three hundred thousand and seven and thirty

thousand and five

hundred sheep:

NU-31:37  And the LORD'S tribute of the sheep was six hundred

and threescore

and fifteen.

NU-31:38  And the beeves [were] thirty and six thousand; of

which the LORD'S

tribute [was] threescore and twelve.

NU-31:39  And the asses [were] thirty thousand and five hundred;

of which the

LORD'S tribute [was] threescore and one.

NU-31:40  And the persons [were] sixteen thousand; of which the

LORD'S tribute

[was] thirty and two persons.

NU-31:41  And Moses gave the tribute, [which was] the LORD'S

heave offering,

unto Eleazar the priest, as the LORD commanded Moses.

NU-31:42  And of the children of Israel's half, which Moses

divided from the

men that warred,

NU-31:43  (Now the half [that pertained unto] the congregation

was three

hundred thousand and thirty thousand [and] seven thousand and

five hundred

sheep,

NU-31:44  And thirty and six thousand beeves,

NU-31:45  And thirty thousand asses and five hundred,

NU-31:46  And sixteen thousand persons;)

NU-31:47  Even of the 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.

NU-31:48  And the officers which [were] over thousands of the

host, the

captains of thousands, and captains of hundreds, came near unto

Moses:

NU-31:49  And they said unto Moses, Thy servants have taken the

sum of the men

of war which [are] under our charge, and there lacketh not one

man of us.

NU-31:50  We have therefore brought an oblation for the LORD,

what every man

hath gotten, of jewels of gold, chains, and bracelets, rings,

earrings, and

tablets, to make an atonement for our souls before the LORD.

NU-31:51  And Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold of them,

 [even] all

wrought jewels.

NU-31:52  And all the gold of the offering that they offered up

to the LORD,

of the captains of thousands, and of the captains of hundreds,

was sixteen

thousand seven hundred and fifty shekels.

NU-31:53  ([For] the men of war had taken spoil, every man for

himself.)

NU-31:54  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 memorial for the children of Israel before

the LORD.

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