Numbers 31

1 And YHWH speaks to Moses, saying,

And the Lord spoke unto Moses, saying,

2 “Execute the vengeance of the sons of Israel against the Midianites—afterward you are gathered to your people.”

Execute the vengeance of the children of Israel on the Midianites, after which thou shalt be gathered unto thy 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 unto the people, saying, Arm from yourselves some men for the army, and let them go against the Midianites, to execute the vengeance of the Lord on Midian.

4 one thousand for a tribe—you send one thousand for a tribe, of all the tribes of Israel, to the war.”

A thousand each for every tribe, of all the tribes of Israel, shall ye send to the army.

5 And there are given out of the thousands of Israel one thousand for a tribe—twelve thousand armed ones [for] war;

And there were levied out of the thousands of Israel, a thousand of every tribe, twelve thousand armed for the army.

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, a thousand of every tribe, to the army; them and Phinehas the son of Elazar the priest, to the army, with the holy vessels, and the trumpets for blowing the alarm in his hand.

7 And they war against Midian, as YHWH has commanded Moses, and slay every male;

And they marched out against the Midianites, as the Lord had commanded Moses; and they slew 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 the kings of Midian they slew, besides the rest of their men that were slain; namely, Evi and Rekem, and Zur, and Chur, and Reba, the five kings of Midian; and Bil'am the son of Beor they slew with the sword.

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 the children of Israel took captives the women of Midian, and their little ones; and all their cattle, and all their flocks, and all their goods, they took as spoil.

10 and they have burned all their cities, with their habitations, and all their towers, with fire.

And all their cities wherein they dwelt, and all their castles they burnt with fire.

11 And they take all the spoil and all the prey, among man and among beast;

And they took all the spoil, and all the booty, both of men and of cattle.

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 unto Moses, and to Elazar the priest, and unto the congregation of the children of Israel, the captives, and the booty, and the spoil, unto the camp, to the plains of Moab, which are by the Jordan opposite 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 Elazar the priest, and all the princes of the congregation, went forth to meet them, to without the camp.

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 wroth with the officers of the host, the captains over the thousands, and the captains over the hundreds, who had come from the war-campaign.

15 And Moses says to them, “Have you kept every female alive?

And Moses said unto them, Have ye allowed all the females to live?

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.

Behold, these chiefly were the cause unto the children of Israel, through the counsel of Bil'am, to commit the gross trespass against the Lord in the matter of Peor; through which there was the plague among 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;

And now kill ye every male among the little ones, and every woman that hath known man by lying with him shall ye kill.

18 and all the infants among the women who have not known the lying of a male you have kept alive for yourselves.

But all among the women-children, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.

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;

But ye, —you must abide without the camp seven days: all ye who have killed any person, and all who have touched any one slain, shall purify yourselves on the third day, and on the seventh day; both you and your captives.

20 and every garment, and every skin vessel, and every work of goats’ [hair], and every wooden vessel, you yourselves cleanse.”

And every garment, and whatever is made of skins, and every work of goats' hair, and every vessel made of wood, shall ye purify unto yourselves.

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 Elazar the priest said unto the men of the army who had gone to the battle, This is the ordinance of the law which the Lord hath commanded Moses:

22 only the gold, and the silver, the bronze, the iron, the tin, and the lead,

Nevertheless the gold, and the silver, the copper, the iron, the tin, and the lead,

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 cometh into the fire shall ye make go through the fire, and it shall be clean; only it shall be purified with the waters of sprinkling: and whatsoever doth not come into the fire shall ye cause to go through the water.

24 and you have washed your garments on the seventh day and have been clean, and afterward you come into the camp.”

And ye shall wash your clothes on the seventh day, and ye shall be clean, and after that may ye come into the camp.

25 And YHWH speaks to Moses, saying,

And the Lord said unto Moses, as followeth,

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 booty of the captives, both of man and of cattle, thou, with Elazar the priest, and the chiefs 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 thou shalt divide the booty, between those that carried on the war, who went out to the army, and between all the 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 thou shalt levy a tribute unto the Lord from the men of war who went out to the army, one individual from every five hundred, of the persons, and of the beef-cattle, and of the asses, and of the sheep;

29 you take from their half and have given [it] to Eleazar the priest [as] a raised-offering of YHWH.

From their half shall ye take it; and thou shalt give it unto Elazar the priest, for a heave-offering 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 of the children of Israel, shalt thou take one individual, as it may come, from any fifty, of the persons, of beef-cattle, of the asses, and of the flocks, of all manner of cattle; and thou shalt give the same unto the Levites, who keep the charge of the tabernacle of the Lord.

31 And Moses does—Eleazar the priest also—as YHWH has commanded Moses.

And Moses with Elazar the priest did, as the Lord had 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 the booty, being the rest of the spoil which the men of the army had taken, was of sheep and goats, six hundred thousand and seventy thousand and five thousand,

33 and seventy-two thousand of the herd;

And of beef-cattle, seventy and two thousand,

34 and sixty-one thousand donkeys;

And of asses, sixty and 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 of human persons, of women that had not known men by lying with him, in all thirty and 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, the portion of those who had gone out in the army, was, in the number of sheep and goats, three hundred thousand and seven and thirty thousand and five hundred.

37 And the tribute to YHWH of the sheep is six hundred seventy-five;

And the tribute unto the Lord of the flocks was six hundred and seventy and five.

38 and the herd [is] thirty-six thousand, and their tribute to YHWH [is] seventy-two;

And the beef-cattle were thirty and six thousand; and the tribute thereof unto the Lord was seventy and two.

39 and the donkeys [are] thirty thousand and five hundred, and their tribute to YHWH [is] sixty-one;

And the asses were thirty thousand and five hundred; and the tribute thereof unto the Lord was sixty and one.

40 and of mankind [are] sixteen thousand, and their tribute to YHWH [is] thirty-two persons.

And the human persons were sixteen thousand; and the tribute thereof unto the Lord was thirty and two persons.

41 And Moses gives the tribute—YHWH’s raised-offering—to Eleazar the priest, as YHWH has commanded Moses.

And Moses gave the tribute, the Lord's heave-offering, unto Elazar the priest, as the Lord had commanded Moses.

42 And of the sons of Israel’s half, which Moses halved from the men who war—

And from the half of the children of Israel, which Moses divided off from the men that had gone forth in the army, —

43 and the congregation’s half is three hundred thousand and thirty thousand [and] seven thousand and five hundred of the flock;

(Now the half of the congregation was, of sheep and goats three hundred thousand and thirty thousand, seven thousand and five hundred.

44 and thirty-six thousand of the herd;

And beef-cattle, thirty and six thousand,

45 and thirty thousand and five hundred donkeys;

And asses thirty thousand five hundred,

46 and sixteen thousand of mankind—

And human 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 from this half of the children of Israel, as it came, one from every fifty, of man and of cattle, and gave the same unto the Levites, who kept the charge of the tabernacle of the Lord; as the Lord had 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 there came near unto Moses the officers who had been over the thousands of the army, the captains of the thousands, and the captains of the hundreds.

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;

And they said unto Moses, Thy servants have taken the sum of the men of war who have been under our command, and there lacketh not one man of us.

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.”

We have therefore brought an oblation unto the Lord, each what he hath gotten of vessels of gold, chains, and bracelets, finger-rings, earrings, and tablets, to make an atonement for our souls before the Lord.

51 And Moses receives—Eleazar the priest also—the gold from them, every vessel of workmanship;

And Moses with Elazar the priest took the gold from them, all kinds of wrought articles.

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 gold of the offering that they offered up to the Lord, was sixteen thousand seven hundred and fifty shekels, from the captains of the thousands, and from the captains of the hundreds.

53 (the men of the host have each taken spoil for himself);

The men of the army had taken spoil, every man 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 Elazar the priest took the gold from the captains of the thousands and of the hundreds, and they brought it into the tabernacle of the congregation, as a memorial for the children of Israel before the Lord.