Numbers 31
1 Then the Lord said to Moses,
Then spake Yahweh unto Moses, saying:
2 Give the Midianites punishment for the wrong they did to the children of Israel: and after that you will go to rest with your people.
Exact thou the avenging of the sons of Israel, from the Midianites, —and, afterwards, shalt thou be withdrawn unto thy kinsfolk.
3 So Moses said to the people, Let men from among you be armed for war to put into effect against Midian the Lord's punishment on them.
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.
4 From every tribe of Israel send a thousand to the war.
A thousand from each tribe, —of all the tribes of Israel, shall ye send forth unto the war.
5 So from the thousands of Israel a thousand were taken from every tribe, twelve thousand men armed for war.
And there volunteered out of the thousands of Israel, a thousand of each tribe, —twelve thousand, armed for war.
6 And Moses sent them out to war, a thousand from every tribe, and with them Phinehas, the son of Eleazar the priest, taking in his hands the vessels of the holy place and the horns for sounding the note of 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.
7 And they made war on Midian, as the Lord gave orders to Moses; and they put to death every male.
So they made war upon Midian, as Yahweh had commanded Moses, and slew every male:
8 They put the kings of Midian to death with the rest, Evi and Reken and Zur and Hur and Reba, the five kings of Midian: and Balaam, the son of Beor, they put to death with the sword.
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.
9 The women of Midian with their little ones the children of Israel took prisoner; and all their cattle and flocks and all their goods they took for themselves;
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;
10 And after burning all their towns and all their tent-circles,
all their cities also in their sites, and all their encampments, burned they up with fire.
11 They went away with the goods they had taken, man and beast.
Then took they all the spoil, and all the booty, —both of man and beast;
12 And the prisoners and the goods and everything they had taken, they took to Moses and Eleazar the priest and the people of Israel, to the tent-circle in the lowlands of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho.
and brought in unto Moses and unto Eleazar the priest and unto the assembly of the sons of Israel—the captives and the booty, and the spoil unto the camp, —unto the waste plains of Moab, which are by Jordan, near Jericho.
13 Then Moses and Eleazar the priest and the chiefs of the people went out to them before they had come into the tent-circle.
And Moses, and Eleazar the priest and all the princes of the assembly, went forth to meet them, —unto the outside of the camp.
14 And Moses was angry with the chiefs of the army, the captains of thousands and the captains of hundreds who had come back from the war.
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.
15 And Moses said to them, Why have you kept all the women safe?
And Moses said unto them, —Have ye saved alive every female?
16 It was these who, moved by Balaam, were the cause of Israel's sin against the Lord in the question of Peor, because of which disease came on the people of the Lord.
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!
17 So now put every male child to death, and every woman who has had sex relations with a man.
Now, therefore, slay ye every male among the young, —every woman also that hath cohabited with man, slay ye.
18 But all the female children who have had no sex relations with men, you may keep for yourselves.
But all the young of womankind that have, not cohabited with man, preserve alive for yourselves.
19 You yourselves will have to keep outside the tent-circle for seven days, anyone of you who has put any person to death or come near a dead body; and on the third day and on the seventh day make yourselves and your prisoners clean.
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,
20 And every bit of clothing, and anything made of leather or goats' hair or wood, you are to make clean.
Every garment also, and every article of skin and every thing made of goat’s-hair, and every article of wood, shall ye cleanse (from sin).
21 Then Eleazar the priest said to the men of war who had been to the fight, This is the rule of the law which the Lord has given to Moses:
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:
22 But gold and silver and brass and iron and tin and lead,
Surely the gold and the silver, —the bronze the iron, the tin and the lead,
23 And anything which may be heated, is to go through the fire and be made clean; but in addition it is to be put in the water of cleaning: and anything which may not go through the fire is to be put in the water.
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.
24 And on the seventh day, after washing your clothing, you will be clean, and then you may come into the tent-circle.
And ye shall wash your clothes on the seventh day, and be clean, —and after-wards, shall ye come into the camp.
25 And the Lord said to Moses,
Then spake Yahweh unto Moses, saying:
26 Get an account of everything which was taken in the war, of man and of beast, you and Eleazar the priest and the heads of families of the people:
Reckon thou up the sum of the booty that was captured, both of man and of beast, —thou and Eleazar the priest, and the ancestral heads of the assembly;
27 And let division be made of it into two parts, one for the men of war who went out to the fight, and one for all the people:
and divide the booty into two parts, between them who took upon them the war, who went out in the host, —and all the [rest of the] assembly.
28 And from the men of war who went out let there be offered to the Lord one out of every five hundred, from the persons, and from the oxen and asses and sheep:
Then shalt thou levy a tribute unto Yahweh—from 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:
29 Take this from their part and give it to Eleazar the priest as an offering to be lifted up to the Lord.
out of their half, shall ye take [them], —and thou shall give [them] unto Eleazar the priest as a heave-offering unto Yahweh.
30 And from the part given to the children of Israel, take one out of every fifty, from the persons, and from the oxen and asses and sheep, and give it to the Levites who have the care of the House of the Lord.
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 the cattle, —and shalt give them unto the Levites, who keep the charge of the habitation of Yahweh.
31 So Eleazar and Moses did as the Lord had given orders to Moses.
And Moses and Eleazar the priest did, —As Yahweh commanded Moses.
32 Now the beasts taken, in addition to what the fighting-men took for themselves, were six hundred and seventy-five thousand sheep,
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;
33 And seventy-two thousand oxen,
and, of the herd, seventy-two thousand;
34 And sixty-one thousand asses;
and, of the asses, sixty-one thousand;
35 And thirty-two thousand persons, that is, women who had never had sex relations with a man.
and, of the human persons, even of the woman-kind who had not cohabited with man, —all the persons, thirty-two thousand.
36 And the half given as their part to the men who went to the war, was three hundred and thirty-seven thousand, five hundred sheep,
And the half, the share of them who had gone forth in the host, was, —the number of the flock—three hundred and thirty-seven thousand and five hundred;
37 Of which the Lord's part was six hundred and seventy-five.
and so, the tribute unto Yahweh, out of the flock, was—six hundred and seventy-five;
38 The number of oxen was thirty-six thousand, of which the Lord's part was seventy-two;
and the herd, thirty-six thousand, —and the tribute of them unto Yahweh—seventy-two;
39 The number of asses was thirty thousand, five hundred, of which the Lord's part was sixty-one.
and the asses, thirty thousand and five hundred, —and the tribute of them unto Yahweh, sixty-one;
40 And the number of persons was sixteen thousand, of which the Lord's part was thirty-two persons.
and the human persons, sixteen thousand, —and the tribute of them unto Yahweh, thirty-two persons.
41 And Moses gave the Lord's part, lifted up as an offering, to Eleazar the priest, as the Lord had given orders to Moses.
And Moses gave the tribute—the heave-offering of Yahweh, unto Eleazar the priest, —As Yahweh commanded Moses.
42 And from the half given to the children of Israel, which Moses had kept separate from that given to the fighting-men,
And, of the half, allotted unto the sons of Israel, —which Moses halved away from the men who had gone out in the host,
43 (Now the people's half was three hundred and thirty-seven thousand, five hundred sheep,
the half allotted unto the assembly, was—of the flock, three hundred and thirty-seven thousand, and five hundred;
44 And thirty-six thousand oxen,
and, of the herd, six and thirty thousand;
45 And thirty thousand, five hundred asses,
and, of asses, thirty thousand and five hundred;
46 And sixteen thousand persons; )
and, human persons, sixteen thousand.
47 Even from the children of Israel's half, Moses took one out of every fifty, men and beasts, and gave them to the Levites who had the care of the House of the Lord; as the Lord gave orders to Moses.
So then Moses took—out 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.
48 Then the men in authority over the thousands of the army, the captains of thousands and captains of hundreds, came to 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;
49 And said to him, Your servants have taken note of the number of all the fighting-men under our orders, and every one is present;
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!
50 And we have here an offering for the Lord from what every man took in the war, ornaments of gold, leg-chains and arm-rings, finger-rings, ear-rings, and neck-ornaments, to make our souls free from sin before the Lord.
Therefore have we brought near an offering unto Yahweh, what, each man, hath found—articles of gold, ankle chains and bracelets, rings earrings and buckles, —to put a propitiatory-covering over our souls before Yahweh.
51 So Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold from them, even all the worked ornaments.
So Moses, and Eleazar the priest took the gold of them, —all the wrought articles.
52 And the gold which the captains of thousands and captains of hundreds gave, as an offering to be lifted up before the Lord, came to sixteen thousand, seven hundred and fifty shekels.
And all the gold of the heave-offering which they offered up unto Yahweh, was—sixteen thousand seven hundred and fifty shekels, —of the princes of thousands, and of the princes of hundreds.
53 (For every man of the army had taken goods for himself in the war.)
The men of the host, had taken prey, each man for himself.
54 Then Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold given by the captains of thousands and captains of hundreds, and took it into the Tent of meeting, to be a sign in memory of the children of Israel before the Lord.
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.
