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The Book of Numbers 31

31 And Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, 2 “Take vengeance, the vengeance of the sons of Israel, from with the Midianites. Afterward you shall be gathered to your people.” 3 And Moses spoke to the people, saying, “Equip yourselves, some of the men with you, for the war. And they will be against Midian to give the vengeance of Yahweh on Midian. 4 You shall send to the war for all the tribes of Israel, a thousand for a tribe, a thousand for a tribe.” 5 And a thousand for a tribe were provided from the thousands of Israel, 12, 000 equipped for battle. 6 And Moses sent them to the war, a thousand for a tribe, them and Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest to the war. And the vessels of holiness and the blasting trumpets were in his hand. 7 And they waged war against Midian, just as Yahweh had commanded Moses, and they slew every male. 8 And they slew the kings of Midian with their pierced ones: Evi and Rekem and Zur and Hur and Reba, the five kings of Midian; and they slew Balaam the son of Beor by the sword. 9 And the sons of Israel took captive the women of Midian and their children, and they plundered all their animals and all their livestock and all their wealth. 10 And they burned with the fire all their cities with their dwellings and all their encampments. 11 And they took all the spoil and all the booty of human and of animal. 12 And they brought to Moses and to Eleazar the priest and to the congregation of the sons of Israel, the captives and the booty and the spoil to the camp at the plains of Moab, which are beside the Jordan at Jericho.

13 And Moses and Eleazar the priest and all the leaders of the congregation went out to meet them at the outside of the camp. 14 And Moses was furious with the appointed ones of the army, the leaders of the thousands and the leaders of the hundreds, the ones coming from the battle of the war. 15 And Moses said to them, “Have you let every woman live? 16 Look, these were by the word of Balaam for the sons of Israel to commit unfaithfulness against Yahweh concerning the matter of Peor, and the plague was among the congregation of Yahweh. 17 And now, slay every male among the children and slay every woman who has known a man by the bed of a male. 18 And keep alive for yourselves every child among the women who has not known the bed of a male. 19 And you, camp outside of the camp seven days, all who have slain a person and all who have touched a pierced one. Purify yourselves on the third day and on the seventh day, you and your captives, 20 and you shall purify every garment and every vessel of skin and every work of goats and every vessel of wood.”

21 And Eleazar the priest said to the men of the army who had gone to the battle, “This is a statute of the law that Yahweh has commanded Moses: 22 Only the gold and the silver, the bronze, the iron, the tin, and the lead, 23 every thing that can come through the fire you shall pass through the fire, and it will become clean. However, it must be purified with the water of purification, and all that can not come through the fire you shall pass through the water. 24 And you shall wash your garments on the seventh day, and you will be clean, and afterward you may enter into the camp.”

25 And Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, 26 “Lift up the head of the booty of the captives, of human and of animal, you and Eleazar the priest and the heads of the fathers of the congregation. 27 And you shall divide the booty between the wielders of the war who went out to the battle and all the congregation. 28 And you shall raise a tax for Yahweh from with the men of the war who went out to the battle, one life from 500, from human and from cattle and from the donkeys and from the flock. 29 You shall take from half of them and give the contribution of Yahweh to Eleazar the priest. 30 And from the half of the sons of Israel you shall take one taken from the 50, from human, from cattle, from the donkeys and from the flock, from every animal, and you shall give them to the Levites, the keepers of the keeping of the dwelling of Yahweh.” 31 And Moses and Eleazar the priest did just as Yahweh had commanded Moses.

32 And the booty, the remainder of the plunder that the people of the army plundered, was 675, 000 sheep, 33 and 72, 000 cattle, 34 and 61, 000 donkeys, 35 and human lives, from the women who had not known the bed of a male, every life, 32, 000. 36 And the half of the portion of the ones who went out with the army: the number of the sheep was 337, 500. 37 And the tax for Yahweh from the flock was 675. 38 And the cattle were 36, 000 and their tax for Yahweh was 72. 39 And the donkeys were 30, 500, and their tax for Yahweh was 61. 40 And the human lives were 16, 000, and their tax for Yahweh was 32 lives. 41 And Moses gave the tax of the contribution of Yahweh to Eleazar the priest, just as Yahweh had commanded Moses.

42 And from the half of the sons of Israel whom Moses had divided from the men who waged war, 43 and the half of the congregation from the flock was 337, 500, 44 and 36, 000 cattle, 45 and 30, 500 donkeys, 46 and 16, 000 human lives. 47 And Moses took from the half of the sons of Israel the taken, one from the 50, from human and from animal, and he gave them to the Levites, the keepers of the keeping of the dwelling of Yahweh, just as Yahweh had commanded Moses.

48 And the appointed ones who were for the thousands of the army, the leaders of the thousands and the leaders of the hundreds, came near to Moses. 49 And they said to Moses, “Your servants have lifted up the heads of the men of the war who were in our hand, and not a man from us is missing. 50 And we have offered the offering of Yahweh, a man what he found of the objects of gold, armlet, and bracelet, signet ring, earring, and ornament, to make atonement for our lives before the face of Yahweh.” 51 And Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold from with them, every object of craft. 52 And all the gold of the contribution which they raised to Yahweh from with the leaders of the thousands and from with the leaders of the hundreds was 16, 750 shekels. 53 The men of the army had plundered, a man for himself. 54 And Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold from with the leaders of the thousands and the hundreds, and they brought it to the tent of meeting, a memorial for the sons of Israel before the face of Yahweh.

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