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Chapter 31 |
| 1 | And the LORD
spake unto Moses, saying, |
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2 | Avenge the children of Israel of the
Midianites: afterward shalt thou be gathered unto thy people. |
| 3 | And
Moses spake unto the people, saying, Arm some of yourselves unto the war, and
let them go against the Midianites, and avenge the LORD of Midian. |
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Of every tribe a thousand, throughout all the tribes of Israel, shall ye send
to the war. |
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| So there were delivered out of the thousands of Israel, a
thousand of every tribe, twelve thousand armed for war. |
| 6 | And Moses sent
them to the war, a thousand of every tribe, them and Phinehas the son of
Eleazar the priest, to the war, with the holy instruments, and the trumpets to
blow in his hand. |
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7 | And they warred against the Midianites, as the LORD
commanded Moses; and they slew all the males. |
| 8 | And they slew
the kings of Midian, beside the rest of them that were slain; namely, Evi, and
Rekem, and Zur, and Hur, and Reba, five kings of Midian: Balaam also the son of
Beor they slew with the sword. |
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9 | And the children of Israel took all the
women of Midian captives, and their little ones, and took the spoil of all
their cattle, and all their flocks, and all their goods. |
| 10 | And they
burnt all their cities wherein they dwelt, and all their goodly castles, with
fire. |
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And they took all the spoil, and all the prey, both of men and
of beasts. |
| 12
| And they brought the captives, and the prey, and the
spoil, unto Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and unto the congregation of the
children of Israel, unto the camp at the plains of Moab, which are by Jordan
near Jericho. |
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13 | And Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and all the
princes of the congregation, went forth to meet them without the camp.
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| 14 | And Moses was wroth with the officers of the host, with the captains
over thousands, and captains over hundreds, which came from the battle.
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| 15 | And Moses said unto them, Have ye 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 there was a plague
among the congregation of the LORD. |
| 17 | Now therefore kill every male
among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with
him. |
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But all the women children, that have not known a man by lying
with him, keep alive for yourselves. |
| 19 | And do ye abide without the
camp seven days: whosoever hath killed any person, and whosoever hath touched
any slain, purify both yourselves and your captives on the third day, and on
the seventh day. |
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20 | And purify all your raiment, and all that is made
of skins, and all work of goats' hair, and all things made of wood. |
| 21 |
And Eleazar the priest said unto the men of war which went to the battle, This
is the ordinance of the law which the LORD commanded Moses; |
| 22 | Only the
gold, and the silver, the brass, the iron, the tin, and the lead, |
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Every thing that may abide the fire, ye shall make it go through the fire, and
it shall be clean: nevertheless it shall be purified with the water of
separation: and all that abideth not the fire ye shall make go through the
water. |
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| And ye shall wash your clothes on the seventh day, and ye
shall be clean, and afterward ye shall come into the camp. |
| 25 | And the
LORD spake unto Moses, saying, |
| 26 | Take the sum of the prey that
was taken, both of man and of beast, thou, and Eleazar the priest, and the
chief fathers of the congregation: |
| 27 | And divide the prey into two
parts; between them that took the war upon them, who went out to battle, and
between all the congregation: |
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28 | And levy a tribute unto the LORD of
the men of war which went out to battle: one soul of five hundred, both of the
persons, and of the beeves, and of the asses, and of the sheep: |
| 29 | Take
it of their half, and give it unto Eleazar the priest, for an heave offering of
the LORD. |
| 30
| And of the children of Israel's half, thou shalt take one
portion of fifty, of the persons, of the beeves, of the asses, and of the
flocks, of all manner of beasts, and give them unto the Levites, which keep the
charge of the tabernacle of the LORD. |
| 31 | And Moses and Eleazar the
priest did as the LORD commanded Moses. |
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32 | And the booty, being the
rest of the prey which the men of war had caught, was six hundred thousand and
seventy thousand and five thousand sheep, |
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33 | And threescore and twelve
thousand beeves, |
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34 | And threescore and one thousand asses, |
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And thirty and two thousand persons in all, of women that had not known man by
lying with him. |
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36 | And the half, which was the portion of them that
went out to war, was in number three hundred thousand and seven and thirty
thousand and five hundred sheep: |
| 37 | And the LORD's tribute of the
sheep was six hundred and threescore and fifteen. |
| 38 | And the
beeves were thirty and six thousand; of which the LORD's tribute was threescore
and twelve. |
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39 | And the asses were thirty thousand and five
hundred; of which the LORD's tribute was threescore and one. |
| 40 | And
the persons were sixteen thousand; of which the LORD's tribute was thirty and
two persons. |
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41 | And Moses gave the tribute, which was the LORD's
heave offering, unto Eleazar the priest, as the LORD commanded Moses.
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| 42 | And of the children of Israel's half, which Moses divided from the men
that warred, |
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43 | (Now the half that pertained unto the congregation
was three hundred thousand and thirty thousand and seven thousand and five
hundred sheep, |
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44 | And thirty and six thousand beeves, |
| 45 | And
thirty thousand asses and five hundred, |
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46 | And sixteen thousand
persons;) |
| 47
| Even of the children of Israel's half, Moses took one
portion of fifty, both of man and of beast, and gave them unto the Levites,
which kept the charge of the tabernacle of the LORD; as the LORD commanded
Moses. |
| 48
| And the officers which were over thousands of the host,
the captains of thousands, and captains of hundreds, came near unto
Moses: |
| 49
| And they said unto Moses, Thy servants have taken the sum
of the men of war which are under our charge, and there lacketh not one man of
us. |
| 50 |
We have therefore brought an oblation for the LORD, what every
man hath gotten, of jewels of gold, chains, and bracelets, rings, earrings, and
tablets, to make an atonement for our souls before the LORD. |
| 51 | And
Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold of them, even all wrought
jewels. |
| 52
| And all the gold of the offering that they offered up to
the LORD, of the captains of thousands, and of the captains of hundreds, was
sixteen thousand seven hundred and fifty shekels. |
| 53 | (For the men
of war had taken spoil, every man for himself.) |
| 54 | And Moses
and Eleazar the priest took the gold of the captains of thousands and of
hundreds, and brought it into the tabernacle of the congregation, for a
memorial for the children of Israel before the LORD. |
