Numbers 31
1 And YHWH speaks to Moses, saying,
And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
2 “Execute the vengeance of the sons of Israel against the Midianites—afterward you are gathered to your people.”
Avenge the wrongs of the children of Israel on the Madianites, and afterwards you shall be added to your people.
3 And Moses speaks to the people, saying, “Arm men from [among] you for the war, and they are against Midian, to put the vengeance of YHWH on Midian;
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.
4 one thousand for a tribe—you send one thousand for a tribe, of all the tribes of Israel, to the war.”
Send a thousand of each tribe from all the tribes of the children of Israel to set themselves in array.
5 And there are given out of the thousands of Israel one thousand for a tribe—twelve thousand armed ones [for] war;
And they numbered of the thousands of Israel a thousand of [each] tribe, twelve thousands; [these were] armed for war.
6 and Moses sends them, one thousand for a tribe, to the war; [he sent] them and Phinehas son of Eleazar the priest to the war, with the holy vessels and the trumpets of shouting in his hand.
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.
7 And they war against Midian, as YHWH has commanded Moses, and slay every male;
And they set themselves in array against Madian, as the Lord commanded Moses; and they killed every male.
8 and they have slain the kings of Midian besides their pierced ones: Evi, and Rekem, and Zur, and Hur, and Reba—five kings of Midian; and they have slain Balaam son of Beor with the sword.
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.
9 And the sons of Israel take the women of Midian and their infants captive; and they have plundered all their livestock, and all their substance, and all their wealth;
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.
10 and they have burned all their cities, with their habitations, and all their towers, with fire.
And they burnt with fire all their cities in the places of their habitation and they burnt their villages with fire.
11 And they take all the spoil and all the prey, among man and among beast;
And they took all their plunder, and all their spoils, both man and beast.
12 and they bring in the captives, and the prey, and the spoil to Moses, and to Eleazar the priest, and to the congregation of the sons of Israel, to the camp, to the plains of Moab, which [are] by the Jordan, [near] Jericho.
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.
13 And Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and all the princes of the congregation, go out to meet them, to the outside of the camp,
And Moses and Eleazar the priest and all the rulers of the synagogue went forth out of the camp to meet them.
14 and Moses is angry against the inspectors of the force, chiefs of the thousands, and chiefs of the hundreds, who are coming in from the warfare of battle.
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.
15 And Moses says to them, “Have you kept every female alive?
And Moses said to them, Why have you saved every female alive?
16 Behold, they have been to the sons of Israel, through the word of Balaam, to cause a trespass against YHWH in the matter of Peor, and the plague is in the congregation of YHWH.
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.
17 And now, slay every male among the infants, indeed, slay every woman knowing a man by the lying of a male;
Now then kill every male in all the spoil, kill every woman, who has known the lying with man.
18 and all the infants among the women who have not known the lying of a male you have kept alive for yourselves.
And as for all the captivity of women, who have not known the lying with man, save you them alive.
19 And you, encamp at the outside of the camp [for] seven days; any who has slain a person, and any who has come against a pierced one, cleanse yourselves on the third day and on the seventh day—you and your captives;
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.
20 and every garment, and every skin vessel, and every work of goats’ [hair], and every wooden vessel, you yourselves cleanse.”
And you shall purify every garment and every leather utensil, and all furniture of goat skin, and every wooden vessel.
21 And Eleazar the priest says to the men of war who go to battle, “This [is] the statute of the law which YHWH has commanded Moses:
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.
22 only the gold, and the silver, the bronze, the iron, the tin, and the lead,
Beside the gold, and the silver, and the brass, and the iron, and lead, and tin,
23 everything which may go into fire, you cause to pass over through fire, and it has been clean; it is surely cleansed with the water of separation; and all that may not go into fire, you cause to pass over through water;
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.
24 and you have washed your garments on the seventh day and have been clean, and afterward you come into the camp.”
And on the seventh day you shall wash your garments, and be clean; and afterwards you shall come into the camp.
25 And YHWH speaks to Moses, saying,
And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
26 “Take up the sum of the prey of the captives, among man and among beast, you, and Eleazar the priest, and the heads of the fathers of the congregation;
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.
27 and you have halved the prey between those handling the battle, who go out to the war, and all the congregation;
And you shall divide the spoils between the warriors that went out to battle, and the whole congregation.
28 and you have raised a tribute to YHWH from the men of battle, who go out to the war, one body out of five hundred, of man, and of the herd, and of the donkeys, and of the flock;
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.
29 you take from their half and have given [it] to Eleazar the priest [as] a raised-offering of YHWH.
And you shall give [them] to Eleazar the priest [as] the first fruits of the Lord.
30 And from the sons of Israel’s half you take one possession out of fifty, of man, of the herd, of the donkeys, and of the flock, of all the livestock, and you have given them to the Levites keeping the charge of the Dwelling Place of YHWH.”
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.
31 And Moses does—Eleazar the priest also—as YHWH has commanded Moses.
And Moses and Eleazar the priest did as the Lord commanded Moses.
32 And the prey, the remainder of the spoil which the people of the host have spoiled, is six hundred thousand and seventy thousand and five thousand of the flock;
And that which remained of the spoil which the warriors took, was—of the sheep, six hundred and seventy-five thousand:
33 and seventy-two thousand of the herd;
and oxen, seventy-two thousand:
34 and sixty-one thousand donkeys;
and asses, sixty-one thousand.
35 and of mankind—of the women who have not known the lying of a male—all the persons [are] thirty-two thousand.
And persons of women who had not known lying with man, all the souls, thirty-two thousand.
36 And the half, the portion of those who go out into the war, is [in] number three hundred thousand and thirty thousand and seven thousand and five hundred of the flock.
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.
37 And the tribute to YHWH of the sheep is six hundred seventy-five;
And the tribute to the Lord from the sheep was six hundred and seventy-five.
38 and the herd [is] thirty-six thousand, and their tribute to YHWH [is] seventy-two;
And the oxen, six and thirty thousand, and the tribute to the Lord seventy-two.
39 and the donkeys [are] thirty thousand and five hundred, and their tribute to YHWH [is] sixty-one;
And asses, thirty thousand and five hundred, and the tribute to the Lord, sixty-one:
40 and of mankind [are] sixteen thousand, and their tribute to YHWH [is] thirty-two persons.
and the persons, sixteen thousand, and the tribute of them to the Lord, thirty-two souls.
41 And Moses gives the tribute—YHWH’s raised-offering—to Eleazar the priest, as YHWH has commanded Moses.
And Moses gave the tribute to the Lord, the heave-offering of God, to Eleazar the priest, as the Lord commanded Moses;
42 And of the sons of Israel’s half, which Moses halved from the men who war—
from the half belonging to the children of Israel, whom Moses separated from the men of war.
43 and the congregation’s half is three hundred thousand and thirty thousand [and] seven thousand and five hundred of the flock;
And the half [taken] from the sheep, belonging to the congregation, was three hundred and thirty-seven thousand and five hundred.
44 and thirty-six thousand of the herd;
And the oxen, thirty-six thousand;
45 and thirty thousand and five hundred donkeys;
asses, thirty thousand and five hundred;
46 and sixteen thousand of mankind—
and persons, sixteen thousand.
47 Moses takes from the sons of Israel’s half one possession from the fifty, of man and of beast, and gives them to the Levites keeping the charge of the Dwelling Place of YHWH, as YHWH has commanded Moses.
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.
48 And the inspectors whom the thousands of the host have (heads of the thousands and heads of the hundreds), draw near to Moses,
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,
49 and they say to Moses, “Your servants have taken up the sum of the men of war who [are] with us, and not a man of us has been missed;
Your servants have taken the sum of the men of war with us, and not one is missing.
50 and we bring YHWH’s offering near, each of that which he has found of vessels of gold—chain, and bracelet, seal-ring, [ear]-ring, and bead—to make atonement for ourselves before YHWH.”
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.
51 And Moses receives—Eleazar the priest also—the gold from them, every vessel of workmanship;
And Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold from them, even every wrought article.
52 and all the gold of the raised-offering which they have lifted up to YHWH is sixteen thousand seven hundred and fifty shekels, from heads of the thousands and from heads of the hundreds;
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.
53 (the men of the host have each taken spoil for himself);
For the men of war took plunder every one for himself.
54 and Moses takes—Eleazar the priest also—the gold from the heads of the thousands and of the hundreds, and they bring it into the Tent of Meeting [as] a memorial for the sons of Israel before YHWH.
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.
