Numbers 31
1 And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying,
Then the Lord said to Moses,
2 'Execute the vengeance of the sons of Israel against the Midianites — afterwards thou art gathered unto thy people.'
Give the Midianites punishment for the wrong they did to the children of Israel: and after that you will go to rest with your people.
3 And Moses speaketh unto the people, saying, 'Be ye armed some of you for the host, and they are against Midian, to put the vengeance of Jehovah on Midian;
So Moses said to the people, Let men from among you be armed for war to put into effect against Midian the Lord's punishment on them.
4 a thousand for a tribe — a thousand for a tribe, to all the tribes of Israel — ye do send to the host.'
From every tribe of Israel send a thousand to the war.
5 And there are given out of the thousands of Israel a thousand for a tribe, twelve thousand armed ones of the host;
So from the thousands of Israel a thousand were taken from every tribe, twelve thousand men armed for war.
6 and Moses sendeth them, a thousand for a tribe, to the host, them and Phinehas son of Eleazar the priest, to the host; and the holy vessels, and the trumpets of the shouting, in his hand.
And Moses sent them out to war, a thousand from every tribe, and with them Phinehas, the son of Eleazar the priest, taking in his hands the vessels of the holy place and the horns for sounding the note of war.
7 And they war against Midian, as Jehovah hath commanded Moses, and slay every male;
And they made war on Midian, as the Lord gave orders to Moses; and they put to death every male.
8 and the kings of Midian they have slain, besides their pierced ones, Evi, and Rekem, and Zur, and Hur, and Reba, five kings of Midian; and Balaam son of Beor, they have slain with the sword.
They put the kings of Midian to death with the rest, Evi and Reken and Zur and Hur and Reba, the five kings of Midian: and Balaam, the son of Beor, they put to death with the sword.
9 And the sons of Israel take captive the women of Midian, and their infants; and all their cattle, and all their substance, and all their wealth they have plundered;
The women of Midian with their little ones the children of Israel took prisoner; and all their cattle and flocks and all their goods they took for themselves;
10 and all their cities, with their habitations, and all their towers, they have burnt with fire.
And after burning all their towns and all their tent-circles,
11 And they take all the spoil, and all the prey, among man and among beast;
They went away with the goods they had taken, man and beast.
12 and they bring in, unto Moses, and unto Eleazar the priest, and unto the company of the sons of Israel, the captives, and the prey, and the spoil, unto the camp, unto the plains of Moab, which [are] by Jordan, [near] Jericho.
And the prisoners and the goods and everything they had taken, they took to Moses and Eleazar the priest and the people of Israel, to the tent-circle in the lowlands of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho.
13 And Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and all the princes of the company, go out to meet them, unto the outside of the camp,
Then Moses and Eleazar the priest and the chiefs of the people went out to them before they had come into the tent-circle.
14 and Moses is wroth against the inspectors of the force, chiefs of the thousands, and chiefs of the hundreds, who are coming in from the host of the battle.
And Moses was angry with the chiefs of the army, the captains of thousands and the captains of hundreds who had come back from the war.
15 And Moses saith unto them, 'Have ye kept alive every female?
And Moses said to them, Why have you kept all the women safe?
16 lo, they — they have been to the sons of Israel, through the word of Balaam, to cause a trespass against Jehovah in the matter of Peor, and the plague is in the company of Jehovah.
It was these who, moved by Balaam, were the cause of Israel's sin against the Lord in the question of Peor, because of which disease came on the people of the Lord.
17 'And now, slay ye every male among the infants, yea, every woman known of man by the lying of a male ye have slain;
So now put every male child to death, and every woman who has had sex relations with a man.
18 and all the infants among the women, who have not known the lying of a male, ye have kept alive for yourselves.
But all the female children who have had no sex relations with men, you may keep for yourselves.
19 'And ye, encamp ye at the outside of the camp seven days — any who hath slain a person, and any who hath come against a pierced one, ye cleanse yourselves on the third day, and on the seventh day — ye and your captives;
You yourselves will have to keep outside the tent-circle for seven days, anyone of you who has put any person to death or come near a dead body; and on the third day and on the seventh day make yourselves and your prisoners clean.
20 and every garment, and every skin vessel, and every work of goats' [hair], and every wooden vessel, ye yourselves cleanse.'
And every bit of clothing, and anything made of leather or goats' hair or wood, you are to make clean.
21 And Eleazar the priest saith unto the men of the host who go in to battle, 'This [is] the statute of the law which Jehovah hath commanded Moses:
Then Eleazar the priest said to the men of war who had been to the fight, This is the rule of the law which the Lord has given to Moses:
22 only, the gold, and the silver, the brass, the iron, the tin, and the lead,
But gold and silver and brass and iron and tin and lead,
23 every thing which may go into fire, ye cause to pass over through fire, and it hath been clean; only, with the water of separation it is cleansed, and all that may not go into fire, ye cause to pass over through water;
And anything which may be heated, is to go through the fire and be made clean; but in addition it is to be put in the water of cleaning: and anything which may not go through the fire is to be put in the water.
24 and ye have washed your garments on the seventh day, and have been clean, and afterwards ye come in unto the camp.'
And on the seventh day, after washing your clothing, you will be clean, and then you may come into the tent-circle.
25 And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying,
And the Lord said to Moses,
26 'Take up the sum of the prey of the captives, among man and among beast, thou, and Eleazar the priest, and the heads of the fathers of the company;
Get an account of everything which was taken in the war, of man and of beast, you and Eleazar the priest and the heads of families of the people:
27 and thou hast halved the prey between those handling the battle who go out to the host and all the company;
And let division be made of it into two parts, one for the men of war who went out to the fight, and one for all the people:
28 and thou hast raised a tribute to Jehovah from the men of war, who go out to the host, one body out of five hundred, of man, and of the herd, and of the asses, and of the flock;
And from the men of war who went out let there be offered to the Lord one out of every five hundred, from the persons, and from the oxen and asses and sheep:
29 from their half ye do take, and thou hast given to Eleazar the priest — the heave-offering of Jehovah.
Take this from their part and give it to Eleazar the priest as an offering to be lifted up to the Lord.
30 'And from the sons of Israel's half thou dost take one possession out of fifty, of man, of the herd, of the asses, and of the flock, of all the cattle, and thou hast given them to the Levites keeping the charge of the tabernacle of Jehovah.'
And from the part given to the children of Israel, take one out of every fifty, from the persons, and from the oxen and asses and sheep, and give it to the Levites who have the care of the House of the Lord.
31 And Moses doth — Eleazar the priest also — as Jehovah hath commanded Moses.
So Eleazar and Moses did as the Lord had given orders to Moses.
32 And the prey, the residue of the spoil which the people of the host have spoiled, is of the flock six hundred thousand, and seventy thousand, and five thousand;
Now the beasts taken, in addition to what the fighting-men took for themselves, were six hundred and seventy-five thousand sheep,
33 and of the herd two and seventy thousand;
And seventy-two thousand oxen,
34 and of asses one and sixty thousand;
And sixty-one thousand asses;
35 and of human beings — of the women who have not known the lying of a male — all the persons [are] two and thirty thousand.
And thirty-two thousand persons, that is, women who had never had sex relations with a man.
36 And the half — the portion of those who go out into the host — the number of the flock is three hundred thousand, and thirty thousand, and seven thousand and five hundred.
And the half given as their part to the men who went to the war, was three hundred and thirty-seven thousand, five hundred sheep,
37 And the tribute to Jehovah of the sheep is six hundred five and seventy;
Of which the Lord's part was six hundred and seventy-five.
38 and the herd [is] six and thirty thousand, and their tribute to Jehovah [is] two and seventy;
The number of oxen was thirty-six thousand, of which the Lord's part was seventy-two;
39 and the asses [are] thirty thousand and five hundred, and their tribute to Jehovah [is] one and sixty;
The number of asses was thirty thousand, five hundred, of which the Lord's part was sixty-one.
40 and the human beings [are] sixteen thousand, and their tribute to Jehovah [is] two and thirty persons.
And the number of persons was sixteen thousand, of which the Lord's part was thirty-two persons.
41 And Moses giveth the tribute — Jehovah's heave-offering — to Eleazar the priest, as Jehovah hath commanded Moses.
And Moses gave the Lord's part, lifted up as an offering, to Eleazar the priest, as the Lord had given orders to Moses.
42 And of the sons of Israel's half, which Moses halved from the men who war —
And from the half given to the children of Israel, which Moses had kept separate from that given to the fighting-men,
43 and the company's half is, of the flock three hundred thousand, and thirty thousand, seven thousand and five hundred;
(Now the people's half was three hundred and thirty-seven thousand, five hundred sheep,
44 and of the herd six and thirty thousand;
And thirty-six thousand oxen,
45 and of asses thirty thousand and five hundred;
And thirty thousand, five hundred asses,
46 and of human beings sixteen thousand —
And sixteen thousand persons; )
47 Moses taketh from the sons of Israel's half the one possession from the fifty, of man and of beast, and giveth them to the Levites keeping the charge of the tabernacle of Jehovah, as Jehovah hath commanded Moses.
Even from the children of Israel's half, Moses took one out of every fifty, men and beasts, and gave them to the Levites who had the care of the House of the Lord; as the Lord gave orders to Moses.
48 And the inspectors whom the thousands of the host hath, (heads of the thousands and heads of the hundreds), draw near unto Moses,
Then the men in authority over the thousands of the army, the captains of thousands and captains of hundreds, came to Moses,
49 and they say unto Moses, 'Thy servants have taken up the sum of the men of war who [are] with us, and not a man of us hath been missed;
And said to him, Your servants have taken note of the number of all the fighting-men under our orders, and every one is present;
50 and we bring near Jehovah's offering, each that which he hath found, vessels of gold — chain, and bracelet, seal-ring, [ear] -ring, and bead — to make atonement for ourselves before Jehovah.'
And we have here an offering for the Lord from what every man took in the war, ornaments of gold, leg-chains and arm-rings, finger-rings, ear-rings, and neck-ornaments, to make our souls free from sin before the Lord.
51 And Moses receiveth — Eleazar the priest also — the gold from them, every made vessel,
So Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold from them, even all the worked ornaments.
52 and all the gold of the heave-offering which they have lifted up to Jehovah is sixteen thousand seven hundred and fifty shekels, from heads of the thousands, and from heads of the hundreds;
And the gold which the captains of thousands and captains of hundreds gave, as an offering to be lifted up before the Lord, came to sixteen thousand, seven hundred and fifty shekels.
53 (the men of the host have spoiled each for himself);
(For every man of the army had taken goods for himself in the war.)
54 and Moses taketh — Eleazar the priest also — the gold from the heads of the thousands and of the hundreds, and they bring it in unto the tent of meeting — a memorial for the sons of Israel before Jehovah.
Then Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold given by the captains of thousands and captains of hundreds, and took it into the Tent of meeting, to be a sign in memory of the children of Israel before the Lord.
