Numbers 31
1 and to speak: speak LORD to(wards) Moses to/for to say
The Lord told Moses,
2 to avenge vengeance son: descendant/people Israel from with [the] Midianite (after *LP) to gather to(wards) kinsman your
“Punish the Midianites because of what they did to the Israelites. After that you will join your forefathers in death.”
3 and to speak: speak Moses to(wards) [the] people to/for to say to arm from with you human to/for army: war and to be upon Midian to/for to give: put vengeance LORD in/on/with Midian
Moses instructed the people, “Have some of your men get ready for battle, so they can go and attack the Midianites and carry out the Lord's punishment on them.
4 thousand to/for tribe thousand to/for tribe to/for all tribe Israel to send: depart to/for army: war
You are to contribute one thousand men from each Israelite tribe.”
5 and to commit from thousand Israel thousand to/for tribe two ten thousand to arm army: war
So one thousand men were chosen from each Israelite tribe, making twelve thousand troops ready for battle.
6 and to send: depart [obj] them Moses thousand to/for tribe to/for army: war [obj] them and [obj] Phinehas son: child Eleazar [the] priest to/for army: war and article/utensil [the] holiness and trumpet [the] shout in/on/with hand his
Moses sent them into battle, one thousand from each tribe, together with Phinehas, son of Eleazar the priest. He carried with him the holy objects from the sanctuary and the trumpets used for giving signals.
7 and to serve upon Midian like/as as which to command LORD [obj] Moses and to kill all male
They attacked the Midianites, as the Lord had told Moses to do, and they killed all the men.
8 and [obj] king Midian to kill upon slain: killed their [obj] Evi and [obj] Rekem and [obj] Zur and [obj] Hur and [obj] Reba five king Midian and [obj] Balaam son: child Beor to kill in/on/with sword
Among those killed were the five kings of Midian, Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba. They also killed Balaam, son of Beor, with the sword.
9 and to take captive son: descendant/people Israel [obj] woman Midian and [obj] child their and [obj] all animal their and [obj] all livestock their and [obj] all strength: rich their to plunder
The Israelites captured the Midianite women and children, and they took as plunder all their herds, flocks, and possessions.
10 and [obj] all city their in/on/with seat their and [obj] all encampment their to burn in/on/with fire
They set fire to all the Midianite towns and camps where they had lived,
11 and to take: take [obj] all [the] spoil and [obj] all [the] prey in/on/with man and in/on/with animal
and carried away all the plunder and loot, including people and animals.
12 and to come (in): bring to(wards) Moses and to(wards) Eleazar [the] priest and to(wards) congregation son: descendant/people Israel [obj] [the] captivity and [obj] [the] prey and [obj] [the] spoil to(wards) [the] camp to(wards) Plains (of Moab) (Plains of) Moab which upon Jordan Jericho
They brought the prisoners, loot, and plunder to Moses, to Eleazar the priest, and to the rest of the Israelites where they were camped on the plains of Moab, beside the Jordan opposite Jericho.
13 and to come out: come Moses and Eleazar [the] priest and all leader [the] congregation to/for to encounter: meet them to(wards) from outside to/for camp
Moses, Eleazar the priest, and all the Israelite leaders went out of the camp to meet them.
14 and be angry Moses upon to reckon: overseer [the] strength: soldiers ruler [the] thousand and ruler [the] hundred [the] to come (in): come from army: duty [the] battle
Moses was angry with the army officers, the commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds, who returned from the battle.
15 and to say to(wards) them Moses to live all female
“Why did you let all the women live?” he asked them.
16 look! they(fem.) to be to/for son: descendant/people Israel in/on/with word Balaam to/for to commit unfaithfulness in/on/with LORD upon word: thing Peor and to be [the] plague in/on/with congregation LORD
“You realize that these were the women seduced the Israelite men, leading them to be unfaithful to the Lord at Peor, following Balaam's advice! That's why the Lord's people suffered from the plague!
17 and now to kill all male in/on/with child and all woman to know man to/for bed male to kill
So go and kill all the boys and every woman who has had slept with a man.
18 and all [the] child in/on/with woman which not to know bed male to live to/for you
Let all the girls who are virgins live. They are yours.
19 and you(m. p.) to camp from outside to/for camp seven day all to kill soul: person and all to touch in/on/with slain: killed to sin in/on/with day [the] third and in/on/with day [the] seventh you(m. p.) and captivity your
All those of you who killed someone or touched a dead body must stay outside the camp for seven days. Purify yourselves and your prisoners on the third day and the seventh day.
20 and all garment and all article/utensil skin and all deed: work goat and all article/utensil tree: wood to sin
Also purify all your clothing garment and anything made of leather, goat's hair, or wood.”
21 and to say Eleazar [the] priest to(wards) human [the] army [the] to come (in): come to/for battle this statute [the] instruction which to command LORD [obj] Moses
Eleazar the priest told the soldiers who had gone into battle, “These are the legal regulations that the Lord has ordered Moses to be carried out:
22 surely [obj] [the] gold and [obj] [the] silver: money [obj] [the] bronze [obj] [the] iron [obj] [the] tin and [obj] [the] lead
All that's made of gold, silver, bronze, iron, tin, and lead—
23 all word: thing which to come (in): come in/on/with fire to pass in/on/with fire and be pure surely in/on/with water impurity to sin and all which not to come (in): come in/on/with fire to pass in/on/with water
anything that doesn't burn—must be put through fire to make it clean. But it still has to be purified using water of purification. Anything that burns must be put through the water.
24 and to wash garment your in/on/with day [the] seventh and be pure and after to come (in): come to(wards) [the] camp
Wash your clothes on the seventh day and you will be clean. Then you can enter the camp.”
25 and to say LORD to(wards) Moses to/for to say
The Lord told Moses,
26 to lift: count [obj] head: count prey [the] captivity in/on/with man and in/on/with animal you(m. s.) and Eleazar [the] priest and head: leader father [the] congregation
“You, Eleazar the priest, and the Israelite family leaders are to take a record of the people and animals that were captured.
27 and to divide [obj] [the] prey between to capture [the] battle [the] to come out: come to/for army: war and between all [the] congregation
Then divide them between the troops who went into battle and the rest of the Israelites.
28 and to exalt tribute to/for LORD from with human [the] battle [the] to come out: come to/for army: war one soul: person from five [the] hundred from [the] man and from [the] cattle and from [the] donkey and from [the] flock
Take as a contribution to the Lord from what is allocated to the troops who went into battle one out of every five hundred people, cattle, donkeys, or sheep.
29 from half their to take: take and to give: give to/for Eleazar [the] priest contribution LORD
Take this from their half share and give it to Eleazar the priest as an offering to the Lord.
30 and from half son: descendant/people Israel to take: take one to grasp from [the] fifty from [the] man from [the] cattle from [the] donkey and from [the] flock from all [the] animal and to give: give [obj] them to/for Levi to keep: guard charge tabernacle LORD
From the Israelites; half share, take one out of every fifty people, cattle, donkeys, or sheep, or other animals, and give them to the Levites who take care of the Lord's Tabernacle.”
31 and to make: do Moses and Eleazar [the] priest like/as as which to command LORD [obj] Moses
Moses and Eleazar the priest did as the Lord had ordered Moses.
32 and to be [the] prey remainder [the] plunder which to plunder people: soldiers [the] army flock six hundred thousand and seventy thousand and five thousand
This was the list of plunder remaining that had been looted by the troops: 675,000 sheep,
33 and cattle two and seventy thousand
72,000 cattle,
34 and donkey one and sixty thousand
61,000 donkeys,
35 and soul: person man from [the] woman which not to know bed male all soul: person two and thirty thousand
and 32,000 virgins.
36 and to be [the] half portion [the] to come out: come in/on/with army number [the] flock three hundred thousand and thirty thousand and seven thousand and five hundred
This was the half share for those who had gone to fight: 337,500 sheep,
37 and to be [the] tribute to/for LORD from [the] flock six hundred five and seventy
with a contribution for the Lord of 675,
38 and [the] cattle six and thirty thousand and tribute their to/for LORD two and seventy
36,000 cattle, with a Lord's contribution of 72,
39 and donkey thirty thousand and five hundred and tribute their to/for LORD one and sixty
30,500 donkeys, with a Lord's contribution of 61,
40 and soul: person man six ten thousand and tribute their to/for LORD two and thirty soul: person
and 16,000 people, with a Lord's contribution of 32.
41 and to give: give Moses [obj] tribute contribution LORD to/for Eleazar [the] priest like/as as which to command LORD [obj] Moses
Moses gave the contribution to Eleazar the priest as an offering to the Lord as the Lord had ordered Moses.
42 and from half son: descendant/people Israel which to divide Moses from [the] human [the] to serve
The Israelites' half share left after Moses had given the half share to the troops who had gone to fight,
43 and to be half [the] congregation from [the] flock three hundred thousand and thirty thousand seven thousand and five hundred
consisted of: 337,500 sheep,
44 and cattle six and thirty thousand
36,000 cattle,
45 and donkey thirty thousand and five hundred
30,500 donkeys,
46 and soul: person man six ten thousand
and 16,000 people.
47 and to take: take Moses from half son: descendant/people Israel [obj] [the] to grasp one from [the] fifty from [the] man and from [the] animal and to give: give [obj] them to/for Levi to keep: guard charge tabernacle LORD like/as as which to command LORD [obj] Moses
Moses took from the Israelites' half one out of every fifty people and animals and gave them the Levites who take care of the Lord's Tabernacle, as the Lord had ordered him.
48 and to present: come to(wards) Moses [the] to reckon: overseer which to/for thousand [the] army ruler [the] thousand and ruler [the] hundred
The army officers, the commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds, came to Moses
49 and to say to(wards) Moses servant/slave your to lift: count [obj] head: leader human [the] battle which in/on/with hand: power our and not to reckon: missing from us man: anyone
and told him, “We, your servants, have checked the troops we command and not a single man is missing.
50 and to present: bring [obj] offering LORD man: anyone which to find article/utensil gold armlet and bracelet ring ring and bracelet to/for to atone upon soul: myself our to/for face: before LORD
So we have brought the Lord an offering of the gold objects each man received—armlets, bracelets, rings, earrings, and necklaces—in order that we may be right before the Lord.”
51 and to take: recieve Moses and Eleazar [the] priest [obj] [the] gold from with them all article/utensil deed: work
Moses and Eleazar the priest accepted from them all the objects made out of gold.
52 and to be all gold [the] contribution which to exalt to/for LORD six ten thousand seven hundred and fifty shekel from with ruler [the] thousand and from with ruler [the] hundred
The gold that the commanders of thousands and of hundreds gave as an offering to the Lord weighed in total 16,750 shekels.
53 human [the] army to plunder man: anyone to/for him
(The men who had fought in the battle had each taken plunder for himself.)
54 and to take: recieve Moses and Eleazar [the] priest [obj] [the] gold from with ruler [the] thousand and [the] hundred and to come (in): bring [obj] him to(wards) tent meeting memorial to/for son: descendant/people Israel to/for face: before LORD
Moses and Eleazar the priest accepted the gold from the commanders of thousands and of hundreds and took it into the Tent of Meeting as a memorial offering for the Israelites in the presence of the Lord.
