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1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, say­ing, 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. 4 Of ev­ery tribe a thou­sand, through­out all the tribes of Is­rael, shall ye send to the war. 5 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. 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. 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. 11 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. 13 And Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and all the princes of the con­gre­ga­tion, went forth to meet them with­out the camp. 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. 15 And Moses said unto them, Have ye saved all the wom­en alive? 16 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. 18 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. 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, 23 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. 24 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: 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. 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, 33 And three­score and twelve thou­sand beeves, 34 And three­score and one thou­sand ass­es, 35 And thir­ty and two thou­sand per­sons in all, of wom­en that had not known man by ly­ing with him. 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. 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. 41 And Moses gave the trib­ute, which was the LORD'S heave of­fer­ing, unto Eleazar the priest, as the LORD com­mand­ed Moses. 42 And of the chil­dren of Israel's half, which Moses di­vid­ed from the men that warred, 43 (Now the half that per­tained unto the con­gre­ga­tion was three hun­dred thou­sand and thir­ty thou­sand and sev­en thou­sand and five hun­dred sheep, 44 And thir­ty and six thou­sand beeves, 45 And thir­ty thou­sand ass­es and five hun­dred, 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.