Numbers Chapter 31

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  Numbers.
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  The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
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  “Avenge the children of Israel on the Midianites. Afterward you shall be gathered to your people.”
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  Moses spoke to the people, saying, “Arm men from among you for war, that they may go against Midian, to execute the LORD’s vengeance on Midian.
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  You shall send one thousand out of every tribe, throughout all the tribes of Israel, to the war.”
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  So there were delivered, out of the thousands of Israel, a thousand from every tribe, twelve thousand armed for war.
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  Moses sent them, one thousand of every tribe, to the war with Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, to the war, with the vessels of the sanctuary an...
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  They fought against Midian, as the LORD commanded Moses. They killed every male.
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  They killed the kings of Midian with the rest of their slain: Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba, the five kings of Midian. They also killed Balaam the so...
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  The children of Israel took the women of Midian captive with their little ones; and all their livestock, all their flocks, and all their goods, they t...
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  All their cities in the places in which they lived, and all their encampments, they burned with fire.
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  They took all the captives, and all the plunder, both of man and of animal.
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  They brought the captives with the prey and the plunder, to Moses, and to Eleazar the priest, and to the congregation of the children of Israel, to th...
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  Moses and Eleazar the priest, with all the princes of the congregation, went out to meet them outside of the camp.
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  Moses was angry with the officers of the army, the captains of thousands and the captains of hundreds, who came from the service of the war.
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  Moses said to them, “Have you saved all the women alive?
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  Behold, these caused the children of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to commit trespass against the LORD in the matter of Peor, and so the plag...
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  Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who has known man by lying with him.
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  But all the girls, who have not known man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.
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  “Encamp outside of the camp for seven days. Whoever has killed any person, and whoever has touched any slain, purify yourselves on the third day and o...
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  You shall purify every garment, and all that is made of skin, and all work of goats’ hair, and all things made of wood.”
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  Eleazar the priest said to the men of war who went to the battle, “This is the statute of the law which the LORD has commanded Moses.
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  However the gold, and the silver, the bronze, the iron, the tin, and the lead,
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  everything that may withstand the fire, you shall make to go through the fire, and it shall be clean; nevertheless it shall be purified with the water...
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  You shall wash your clothes on the seventh day, and you shall be clean. Afterward you shall come into the camp.”
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  The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
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  “Count the plunder that was taken, both of man and of animal, you, and Eleazar the priest, and the heads of the fathers’ households of the congregatio...
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  and divide the plunder into two parts: between the men skilled in war, who went out to battle, and all the congregation.
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  Levy a tribute to the LORD of the men of war who went out to battle: one soul of five hundred; of the persons, of the cattle, of the donkeys, and of t...
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  Take it from their half, and give it to Eleazar the priest, for the LORD’s wave offering.
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  Of the children of Israel’s half, you shall take one drawn out of every fifty, of the persons, of the cattle, of the donkeys, and of the flocks, of al...
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  Moses and Eleazar the priest did as the LORD commanded Moses.
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  Now the plunder, over and above the booty which the men of war took, was six hundred seventy-five thousand sheep,
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  seventy-two thousand head of cattle,
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  sixty-one thousand donkeys,
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  and thirty-two thousand persons in all, of the women who had not known man by lying with him.
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  The half, which was the portion of those who went out to war, was in number three hundred thirty-seven thousand five hundred sheep;
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  and the LORD’s tribute of the sheep was six hundred seventy-five.
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  The cattle were thirty-six thousand, of which the LORD’s tribute was seventy-two.
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  The donkeys were thirty thousand five hundred, of which the LORD’s tribute was sixty-one.
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  The persons were sixteen thousand, of whom the LORD’s tribute was thirty-two persons.
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  Moses gave the tribute, which was the LORD’s wave offering, to Eleazar the priest, as the LORD commanded Moses.
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  Of the children of Israel’s half, which Moses divided off from the men who fought
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  (now the congregation’s half was three hundred thirty-seven thousand five hundred sheep,
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  thirty-six thousand head of cattle,
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  thirty thousand five hundred donkeys,
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  and sixteen thousand persons),
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  even of the children of Israel’s half, Moses took one drawn out of every fifty, both of man and of animal, and gave them to the Levites, who performed...
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  The officers who were over the thousands of the army, the captains of thousands, and the captains of hundreds, came near to Moses.
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  They said to Moses, “Your servants have taken the sum of the men of war who are under our command, and there lacks not one man of us.
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  We have brought the LORD’s offering, what every man found: gold ornaments, armlets, bracelets, signet rings, earrings, and necklaces, to make atonemen...
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  Moses and Eleazar the priest took their gold, even all worked jewels.
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  All the gold of the wave offering that they offered up to the LORD, of the captains of thousands, and of the captains of hundreds, was sixteen thousan...
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  The men of war had taken booty, every man for himself.
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  Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold of the captains of thousands and of hundreds, and brought it into the Tent of Meeting for a memorial for th...