Numbers 31

1 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

Then the Lord said to Moses,

2 Avenge the wrongs of the children of Israel on the Madianites, and afterwards you shall be added to your people.

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.

3 And Moses spoke to the people, saying, Arm some of you, and set yourselves in array before the Lord against Madian, to inflict vengeance on Madian from the Lord.

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.

4 Send a thousand of each tribe from all the tribes of the children of Israel to set themselves in array.

From every tribe of Israel send a thousand to the war.

5 And they numbered of the thousands of Israel a thousand of [each] tribe, twelve thousands; [these were] armed for war.

So from the thousands of Israel a thousand were taken from every tribe, twelve thousand men armed for war.

6 And Moses sent them away a thousand of every tribe with their forces, and Phinees the son of Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest: and the holy instruments, and the signal trumpets [were] in their hands.

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.

7 And they set themselves in array against Madian, as the Lord commanded Moses; and they killed every male.

And they made war on Midian, as the Lord gave orders to Moses; and they put to death every male.

8 And they killed the kings of Madian together with their slain [subjects]; even Evi and Rocon, and Sur, and Ur, and Roboc, five kings of Madian; and they killed with the sword Balaam the son of Beor with their [other] slain.

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.

9 And they made a prey of the women of Madian, and their store, and their cattle, and all their possessions: and they spoiled their forces.

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;

10 And they burnt with fire all their cities in the places of their habitation and they burnt their villages with fire.

And after burning all their towns and all their tent-circles,

11 And they took all their plunder, and all their spoils, both man and beast.

They went away with the goods they had taken, man and beast.

12 And they brought to Moses and to Eleazar the priest, and to all the children of Israel, the captives, and the spoils, and the plunder, to the camp to Araboth Moab, which is at Jordan by Jericho.

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.

13 And Moses and Eleazar the priest and all the rulers of the synagogue went forth out of the camp to meet them.

Then Moses and Eleazar the priest and the chiefs of the people went out to them before they had come into the tent-circle.

14 And Moses was angry with the captains of the host, the heads of thousands and the heads of hundreds who came from the battle-array.

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.

15 And Moses said to them, Why have you saved every female alive?

And Moses said to them, Why have you kept all the women safe?

16 For they were [the occasion] to the children of Israel by the word of Balaam of their revolting and despising the word of the Lord, because of Phogor; and there was a plague in the congregation of the Lord.

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.

17 Now then kill every male in all the spoil, kill every woman, who has known the lying with man.

So now put every male child to death, and every woman who has had sex relations with a man.

18 And as for all the captivity of women, who have not known the lying with man, save you them alive.

But all the female children who have had no sex relations with men, you may keep for yourselves.

19 And you shall encamp outside the [great] camp seven days; every one who has slain and who touches a dead body, shall be purified on the third day, and you and your captivity [shall purify yourselves] on the seventh day.

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.

20 And you shall purify every garment and every leather utensil, and all furniture of goat skin, and every wooden vessel.

And every bit of clothing, and anything made of leather or goats' hair or wood, you are to make clean.

21 And Eleazar the priest said to the men of the host that came from the battle-array, This [is] the ordinance of the law which the Lord has commanded Moses.

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:

22 Beside the gold, and the silver, and the brass, and the iron, and lead, and tin,

But gold and silver and brass and iron and tin and lead,

23 every thing that shall pass through the fire shall so be clean, nevertheless it shall be purified with the water of sanctification; and whatever will not pass through the fire shall pass through water.

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.

24 And on the seventh day you shall wash your garments, and be clean; and afterwards you shall come into the camp.

And on the seventh day, after washing your clothing, you will be clean, and then you may come into the tent-circle.

25 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

And the Lord said to Moses,

26 Take the sum of the spoils of the captivity both of man and beast, you and Eleazar the priest, and the heads of the families of the congregation.

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:

27 And you shall divide the spoils between the warriors that went out to battle, and the whole congregation.

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:

28 And you shall take a tribute for the Lord from the warriors that went out to battle; one soul out of five hundred, from the men, and from the cattle, even from the oxen, and from the sheep, and from the asses; and you shall take from their half.

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:

29 And you shall give [them] to Eleazar the priest [as] the first fruits of the Lord.

Take this from their part and give it to Eleazar the priest as an offering to be lifted up to the Lord.

30 And from the half belonging to the children of Israel you shall take one in fifty from the men, and from the oxen, and from the sheep, and from the asses, and from all the cattle; and you shall give them to the Levites that keep the charges in the tabernacle of the Lord.

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.

31 And Moses and Eleazar the priest did as the Lord commanded Moses.

So Eleazar and Moses did as the Lord had given orders to Moses.

32 And that which remained of the spoil which the warriors took, was—of the sheep, six hundred and seventy-five thousand:

Now the beasts taken, in addition to what the fighting-men took for themselves, were six hundred and seventy-five thousand sheep,

33 and oxen, seventy-two thousand:

And seventy-two thousand oxen,

34 and asses, sixty-one thousand.

And sixty-one thousand asses;

35 And persons of women who had not known lying with man, all the souls, thirty-two thousand.

And thirty-two thousand persons, that is, women who had never had sex relations with a man.

36 And the half, [even] the portion of them that went out to war, from the number of the sheep, was three hundred and thirty-seven thousand and five hundred.

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,

37 And the tribute to the Lord from the sheep was six hundred and seventy-five.

Of which the Lord's part was six hundred and seventy-five.

38 And the oxen, six and thirty thousand, and the tribute to the Lord seventy-two.

The number of oxen was thirty-six thousand, of which the Lord's part was seventy-two;

39 And asses, thirty thousand and five hundred, and the tribute to the Lord, sixty-one:

The number of asses was thirty thousand, five hundred, of which the Lord's part was sixty-one.

40 and the persons, sixteen thousand, and the tribute of them to the Lord, thirty-two souls.

And the number of persons was sixteen thousand, of which the Lord's part was thirty-two persons.

41 And Moses gave the tribute to the Lord, the heave-offering of God, to Eleazar the priest, as the Lord commanded Moses;

And Moses gave the Lord's part, lifted up as an offering, to Eleazar the priest, as the Lord had given orders to Moses.

42 from the half belonging to the children of Israel, whom Moses separated from the men of war.

And from the half given to the children of Israel, which Moses had kept separate from that given to the fighting-men,

43 And the half [taken] from the sheep, belonging to the congregation, was three hundred and thirty-seven thousand and five hundred.

(Now the people's half was three hundred and thirty-seven thousand, five hundred sheep,

44 And the oxen, thirty-six thousand;

And thirty-six thousand oxen,

45 asses, thirty thousand and five hundred;

And thirty thousand, five hundred asses,

46 and persons, sixteen thousand.

And sixteen thousand persons; )

47 And Moses took of the half belonging to the children of Israel the fifties part, of men and of cattle, and he gave them to the Levites who keep the charges of the tabernacle of the Lord, as the Lord commanded Moses.

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.

48 And all those who were appointed to be officers of thousands of the host, captains of thousands and captains of hundreds, approached Moses, and said to Moses,

Then the men in authority over the thousands of the army, the captains of thousands and captains of hundreds, came to Moses,

49 Your servants have taken the sum of the men of war with us, and not one is missing.

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;

50 And we have brought our gift to the Lord, [every] man who has found an article of gold, whether an armlet, or a chain, or a ring, or a bracelet, or a clasp for hair, to make atonement for us before the Lord.

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.

51 And Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold from them, even every wrought article.

So Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold from them, even all the worked ornaments.

52 And all the wrought gold, even the offering that they offered to the Lord, was sixteen thousand and seven hundred and fifty shekels from the captains of thousands and the captains of hundreds.

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.

53 For the men of war took plunder every one for himself.

(For every man of the army had taken goods for himself in the war.)

54 And Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold from the captains of thousands and captains of hundreds, and brought the vessels into the tabernacle of witness, a memorial of the children of Israel before the Lord.

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.