Numbers 31

1 Then spake Yahweh unto Moses, saying:

And the Lord spake vnto Moses, saying,

2 Exact thou the avenging of the sons of Israel, from the Midianites, —and, afterwards, shalt thou be withdrawn unto thy kinsfolk.

Reuenge the children of Israel of the Midianites, and afterwarde shalt thou be gathered vnto thy people.

3 So Moses spake unto the people saying, Arm ye from among you men, for the war, and let them go against Midian, to render the avenging of Yahweh upon Midian.

And Moses spake to the people, saying, Harnesse some of you vnto warre, and let them goe against Midian, to execute the vengeance of the Lord against Midian.

4 A thousand from each tribe, —of all the tribes of Israel, shall ye send forth unto the war.

A thousande of euery tribe throughout all the tribes of Israel, shall ye sende to the warre.

5 And there volunteered out of the thousands of Israel, a thousand of each tribe, —twelve thousand, armed for war.

So there were taken out of the thousands of Israel, twelue thousande prepared vnto warre, of euery tribe a thousand.

6 And Moses sent them a thousand of each tribe to the war, —them, and Phinehas son of Eleazar the priest, to the war, with the vessels of the sanctuary, and the alarm trumpets, in his hand.

And Moses sent them to the warre, euen a thousand of euery tribe, and sent them with Phinehas the sonne of Eleazar the Priest to the warre: and the holy instruments, that is, the trumpets to blow were in his hand.

7 So they made war upon Midian, as Yahweh had commanded Moses, and slew every male:

And they warred against Midian, as the Lord had commanded Moses, and slue all the males.

8 and the kings of Midian, slew they besides their other slain namely, Evi, and Rekem, and Zur, and Hur, and Reba, five kings of Midian, —Balaam also, son of Beor, slew they with the sword.

They slue also the Kings of Midian among them that were slaine: Eui and Rekem, and Zur, and Hur and Reba fiue kings of Midian, and they slue Balaam the sonne of Beor with the sworde:

9 And the sons of Israel took captive the women of Midian and their little ones, —all their cattle also and all their flocks and all their substance, carried they off as a prey;

But the children of Israel tooke the women of Midian prisoners, and their children, and spoyled all their cattell, and all their flockes, and all their goods.

10 all their cities also in their sites, and all their encampments, burned they up with fire.

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

11 Then took they all the spoil, and all the booty, —both of man and beast;

And they tooke all the spoyle and all the pray both of men and beastes.

12 and brought in unto Moses and unto Eleazar the priest and unto the assembly of the sons of Israel—the captives and the booty, and the spoil unto the camp, —unto the waste plains of Moab, which are by Jordan, near Jericho.

And they brought the captiues and that which they had taken, and the spoyle vnto Moses and to Eleazar the Priest, and vnto the Congregation of the children of Israel, into ye campe in the playne of Moab, which was by Iorden toward Iericho.

13 And Moses, and Eleazar the priest and all the princes of the assembly, went forth to meet them, —unto the outside of the camp.

Then Moses and Eleazar the Priest, and all the princes of the Congregation went out of the campe to meete them.

14 Then was Moses sore displeased with the officers of the force, —the princes of thousands, and the princes of hundreds who were coming in from the warring host.

And Moses was angry with the captaines of the hoste, with the captaines ouer thousands, and captaines ouer hundreds, which came from the warre and battel.

15 And Moses said unto them, —Have ye saved alive every female?

And Moses sayde vnto them, What? haue ye saued all the women?

16 Lo! they, became unto the sons of Israel, by the advice of Balaam, the cause of daring acts of treachery against Yahweh, over the affair of Peor, —and then came the plague against the assembly of Yahweh!

Behold, these caused the children of Israel through the counsell of Balaam to commit a trespasse against the Lord, as concerning Peor, and there came a plague among the Congregation of the Lord.

17 Now, therefore, slay ye every male among the young, —every woman also that hath cohabited with man, slay ye.

Now therefore, slay all the males among the children, and kill all the women that haue knowen man by carnall copulation.

18 But all the young of womankind that have, not cohabited with man, preserve alive for yourselves.

But all the women children that haue not knowen carnall copulation, keepe aliue for your selues.

19 Ye, then, pitch outside the camp, for seven days, —whosoever hath killed a person and whoever hath touched the slain, cleanse yourselves (from sin) on the third day and on the seventh day ye and your captives,

And ye shall remaine without the host seuen dayes, all that haue killed any person, and all that haue touched any dead, and purifie both your selues and your prisoners the third day and the seuenth.

20 Every garment also, and every article of skin and every thing made of goat’s-hair, and every article of wood, shall ye cleanse (from sin).

Also ye shall purifie euery garment and all that is made of skins and al worke of goates heare, and all things made of wood.

21 Then said Eleazar the priest unto the men of the host, who had been to the war: This, is the statute of the law, which Yahweh hath commanded Moses:

And Eleazar ye Priest sayd vnto the men of warre, which went to the battel, This is the ordinance of the law which the Lord commanded Moses,

22 Surely the gold and the silver, —the bronze the iron, the tin and the lead,

As for gold, and siluer, brasse, yron, tynne, and lead:

23 whatsoever thing can go into fire, ye shall pass through fire and it shall be clean, only with the water of separation, shall ye cleanse it (from sin). But whatsoever cannot go into fire, ye shall pass through water.

Euen all that may abide the fire, yee shall make it goe through the fire, and it shalbe cleane: yet, it shalbe purified with the water of purification: and all that suffereth not the fire, yee shall cause to passe by the water.

24 And ye shall wash your clothes on the seventh day, and be clean, —and after-wards, shall ye come into the camp.

Ye shall wash also your clothes the seuenth day, and ye shalbe cleane: and afterward ye shall come into the Hoste.

25 Then spake Yahweh unto Moses, saying:

And the Lord spake vnto Moses, saying,

26 Reckon thou up the sum of the booty that was captured, both of man and of beast, —thou and Eleazar the priest, and the ancestral heads of the assembly;

Take the summe of the praie that was taken, both of persons and of cattell, thou and Eleazar the Priest, and the chiefe fathers of the Congregation.

27 and divide the booty into two parts, between them who took upon them the war, who went out in the host, —and all the [rest of the] assembly.

And deuide the praye betweene the souldiers that went to the warre, and all the Congregation.

28 Then shalt thou levy a tribute unto Yahweh—from the men of war, who went forth in the host, one living thing, out of five hundred, —of the human beings, and of the herd, and of the asses and of the flock:

And thou shalt take a tribute vnto ye Lord of the men of warre, which went out to battel: one person of fiue hundreth, both of the persons, and of the beeues, and of the asses, and of the sheepe.

29 out of their half, shall ye take [them], —and thou shall give [them] unto Eleazar the priest as a heave-offering unto Yahweh.

Yee shall take it of their halfe and giue it vnto Eleazar the Priest, as an heaue offring of the Lord.

30 And out of the half allotted to the sons of Israel, shalt thou take one allotted portion out of fifty of the human beings, of the herd, of the asses and of the flock of all the cattle, —and shalt give them unto the Levites, who keep the charge of the habitation of Yahweh.

But of the halfe of the children of Israel thou shalt take one, taken out of fiftie, both of the persons, of the beeues, of the asses, and of the sheepe, euen of all the cattel: and thou shalt giue them vnto the Leuites, which haue the charge of the Tabernacle of the Lord.

31 And Moses and Eleazar the priest did, —As Yahweh commanded Moses.

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

32 And it came to pass that the booty, over and above the prey which the people of the host had seized, was, —of the flock, six hundred and seventy-five thousand;

And the bootie, to wit, the rest of the praie which the men of warre had spoyled, was sixe hundreth seuentie and fiue thousand sheepe,

33 and, of the herd, seventy-two thousand;

And seuentie and two thousand beeues,

34 and, of the asses, sixty-one thousand;

And three score and one thousand asses,

35 and, of the human persons, even of the woman-kind who had not cohabited with man, —all the persons, thirty-two thousand.

And two and thirtie thousande persons in all, of women that had lyen by no man.

36 And the half, the share of them who had gone forth in the host, was, —the number of the flock—three hundred and thirty-seven thousand and five hundred;

And the halfe, to wit, the part of them that went out to warre touching the nomber of sheepe, was three hundreth seuen and thirtie thousand, and fiue hundreth.

37 and so, the tribute unto Yahweh, out of the flock, was—six hundred and seventy-five;

And the Lordes tribute of the sheepe was sixe hundreth and seuentie and fiue:

38 and the herd, thirty-six thousand, —and the tribute of them unto Yahweh—seventy-two;

And the beeues were six and thirty thousad, whereof the Lordes tribute was seuentie and two.

39 and the asses, thirty thousand and five hundred, —and the tribute of them unto Yahweh, sixty-one;

And the asses were thirtie thousande and fiue hundreth, whereof the Lordes tribute was three score and one:

40 and the human persons, sixteen thousand, —and the tribute of them unto Yahweh, thirty-two persons.

And of persons sixtene thousand, whereof the Lordes tribute was two and thirtie persons.

41 And Moses gave the tribute—the heave-offering of Yahweh, unto Eleazar the priest, —As Yahweh commanded Moses.

And Moses gaue the tribute of the Lordes offring vnto Eleazar the Priest, as the Lord had commanded Moses.

42 And, of the half, allotted unto the sons of Israel, —which Moses halved away from the men who had gone out in the host,

And of the halfe of the children of Israel, which Moses deuided from the men of warre,

43 the half allotted unto the assembly, was—of the flock, three hundred and thirty-seven thousand, and five hundred;

(For the halfe that perteined vnto the Congregation, was three hundreth thirtie and seuen thousand sheepe and fiue hundreth,

44 and, of the herd, six and thirty thousand;

And sixe and thirtie thousand beeues,

45 and, of asses, thirty thousand and five hundred;

And thirtie thousand asses, and fiue hudreth,

46 and, human persons, sixteen thousand.

And sixteene thousande persons)

47 So then Moses took—out of the half belonging to the sons of Israel the allotted portion one out of fifty, of the human beings and of the beasts, —and gave them unto the Levites, the keepers of the charge of the habitation of Yahweh, As Yahweh commanded Moses.

Moses, I say, tooke of the halfe that perteined vnto the children of Israel, one taken out of fiftie, both of the persons, and of the cattell, and gaue them vnto the Leuites, which haue the charge of the Tabernacle of the Lord, as the Lord had commanded Moses.

48 Then came near unto Moses the officers who belonged unto the thousands of the host, —the princes of thousands and the princes of hundreds;

Then the captaines which were ouer thousandes of the hoste, the captaines ouer the thousandes, and the captaines ouer the hundreds came vnto Moses:

49 and said unto Moses, Thy servants have reckoned up the sum of the men of war who are in our hand, —and there is not missed from among us, a man!

And saide to Moses, Thy seruants haue taken the summe of the men of warre which are vnder our authoritie, and there lacketh not one man of vs.

50 Therefore have we brought near an offering unto Yahweh, what, each man, hath found—articles of gold, ankle chains and bracelets, rings earrings and buckles, —to put a propitiatory-covering over our souls before Yahweh.

We haue therefore brought a present vnto the Lord, what euery man found of iewels of golde, bracelets, and cheines, rings, eare ringes, and ornaments of the legges, to make an atonement for our soules before the Lord.

51 So Moses, and Eleazar the priest took the gold of them, —all the wrought articles.

And Moses and Eleazar the Priest tooke the golde of them, and all wrought iewels,

52 And all the gold of the heave-offering which they offered up unto Yahweh, was—sixteen thousand seven hundred and fifty shekels, —of the princes of thousands, and of the princes of hundreds.

And all the golde of the offring that they offered vp to the Lord (of the captaines ouer thousands and hundreds) was sixteene thousande seuen hundreth and fiftie shekels,

53 The men of the host, had taken prey, each man for himself.

(For the men of warre had spoyled, euery man for him selfe)

54 So then Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold of the princes of thousands, and hundreds, —and brought it into the tent of meeting, as a memorial for the sons of Israel before Yahweh.

And Moses and Eleazar the Priest tooke the golde of the captaines ouer the thousandes, and ouer the hundreds, and brought it into the Tabernacle of the Congregation, for a memoriall of the children of Israel before the Lord.