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<A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/31-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>one thousand for a tribe—you send one thousand for a tribe, of all the tribes of Israel, to the war.” <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/31-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>And there are given out of the thousands of Israel one thousand for a tribe—twelve thousand armed ones [for] war; <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/31-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>and Moses sends them, one thousand for a tribe, to the war; [he sent] them and Phinehas son of Eleazar the priest to the war, with the holy vessels and the trumpets of shouting in his hand. <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/31-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>And they war against Midian, as YHWH has commanded Moses, and slay every male; <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/31-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>and they have slain the kings of Midian besides their pierced ones: Evi, and Rekem, and Zur, and Hur, and Reba—five kings of Midian; and they have slain Balaam son of Beor with the sword. <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/31-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>And the sons of Israel take the women of Midian and their infants captive; and they have plundered all their livestock, and all their substance, and all their wealth; <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/31-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>and they have burned all their cities, with their habitations, and all their towers, with fire. <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/31-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>And they take all the spoil and all the prey, among man and among beast; <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/31-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>and they bring in the captives, and the prey, and the spoil to Moses, and to Eleazar the priest, and to the congregation of the sons of Israel, to the camp, to the plains of Moab, which [are] by the Jordan, [near] Jericho.<p> <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/31-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>And Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and all the princes of the congregation, go out to meet them, to the outside of the camp, <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/31-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>and Moses is angry against the inspectors of the force, chiefs of the thousands, and chiefs of the hundreds, who are coming in from the warfare of battle. <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/31-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>And Moses says to them, “Have you kept every female alive? <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/31-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Behold, they have been to the sons of Israel, through the word of Balaam, to cause a trespass against YHWH in the matter of Peor, and the plague is in the congregation of YHWH. <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/31-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>And now, slay every male among the infants, indeed, slay every woman knowing a man by the lying of a male; <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/31-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>and all the infants among the women who have not known the lying of a male you have kept alive for yourselves. <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/31-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>And you, encamp at the outside of the camp [for] seven days; any who has slain a person, and any who has come against a pierced one, cleanse yourselves on the third day and on the seventh day—you and your captives; <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/31-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>and every garment, and every skin vessel, and every work of goats’ [hair], and every wooden vessel, you yourselves cleanse.”<p> <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/31-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>And Eleazar the priest says to the men of war who go to battle, “This [is] the statute of the law which YHWH has commanded Moses: <A name="23"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/31-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>only the gold, and the silver, the bronze, the iron, the tin, and the lead, <A name="24"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/31-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>everything which may go into fire, you cause to pass over through fire, and it has been clean; it is surely cleansed with the water of separation; and all that may not go into fire, you cause to pass over through water; <A name="25"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/31-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>and you have washed your garments on the seventh day and have been clean, and afterward you come into the camp.”<p> <A name="26"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/31-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>And YHWH speaks to Moses, saying, <A name="27"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/31-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>“Take up the sum of the prey of the captives, among man and among beast, you, and Eleazar the priest, and the heads of the fathers of the congregation; <A name="28"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/31-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>and you have halved the prey between those handling the battle, who go out to the war, and all the congregation; <A name="29"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/31-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>and you have raised a tribute to YHWH from the men of battle, who go out to the war, one body out of five hundred, of man, and of the herd, and of the donkeys, and of the flock; <A name="30"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/31-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>you take from their half and have given [it] to Eleazar the priest [as] a raised-offering of YHWH. <A name="31"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/31-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>And from the sons of Israel’s half you take one possession out of fifty, of man, of the herd, of the donkeys, and of the flock, of all the livestock, and you have given them to the Levites keeping the charge of the Dwelling Place of YHWH.” <A name="32"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/31-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>And Moses does—Eleazar the priest also—as YHWH has commanded Moses.<p> <A name="33"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/31-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>And the prey, the remainder of the spoil which the people of the host have spoiled, is six hundred thousand and seventy thousand and five thousand of the flock; <A name="34"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/31-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>and seventy-two thousand of the herd; <A name="35"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/31-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>and sixty-one thousand donkeys; <A name="36"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/31-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>and of mankind—of the women who have not known the lying of a male—all the persons [are] thirty-two thousand.<p> <A name="37"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/31-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span>And the half, the portion of those who go out into the war, is [in] number three hundred thousand and thirty thousand and seven thousand and five hundred of the flock. <A name="38"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/31-37.htm"><b>37</b></a></span>And the tribute to YHWH of the sheep is six hundred seventy-five; <A name="39"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/31-38.htm"><b>38</b></a></span>and the herd [is] thirty-six thousand, and their tribute to YHWH [is] seventy-two; <A name="40"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/31-39.htm"><b>39</b></a></span>and the donkeys [are] thirty thousand and five hundred, and their tribute to YHWH [is] sixty-one; <A name="41"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/31-40.htm"><b>40</b></a></span>and of mankind [are] sixteen thousand, and their tribute to YHWH [is] thirty-two persons. <A name="42"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/31-41.htm"><b>41</b></a></span>And Moses gives the tribute—YHWH’s raised-offering—to Eleazar the priest, as YHWH has commanded Moses.<p> <A name="43"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/31-42.htm"><b>42</b></a></span>And of the sons of Israel’s half, which Moses halved from the men who war— <A name="44"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/31-43.htm"><b>43</b></a></span>and the congregation’s half is three hundred thousand and thirty thousand [and] seven thousand and five hundred of the flock; <A name="45"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/31-44.htm"><b>44</b></a></span>and thirty-six thousand of the herd; <A name="46"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/31-45.htm"><b>45</b></a></span>and thirty thousand and five hundred donkeys; <A name="47"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/31-46.htm"><b>46</b></a></span>and sixteen thousand of mankind— <A name="48"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/31-47.htm"><b>47</b></a></span>Moses takes from the sons of Israel’s half one possession from the fifty, of man and of beast, and gives them to the Levites keeping the charge of the Dwelling Place of YHWH, as YHWH has commanded Moses.<p> <A name="49"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/31-48.htm"><b>48</b></a></span>And the inspectors whom the thousands of the host have (heads of the thousands and heads of the hundreds), draw near to Moses, <A name="50"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/31-49.htm"><b>49</b></a></span>and they say to Moses, “Your servants have taken up the sum of the men of war who [are] with us, and not a man of us has been missed; <A name="51"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/31-50.htm"><b>50</b></a></span>and we bring YHWH’s offering near, each of that which he has found of vessels of gold—chain, and bracelet, seal-ring, [ear]-ring, and bead—to make atonement for ourselves before YHWH.” <A name="52"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/31-51.htm"><b>51</b></a></span>And Moses receives—Eleazar the priest also—the gold from them, every vessel of workmanship; <A name="53"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/31-52.htm"><b>52</b></a></span>and all the gold of the raised-offering which they have lifted up to YHWH is sixteen thousand seven hundred and fifty shekels, from heads of the thousands and from heads of the hundreds; <A name="54"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/31-53.htm"><b>53</b></a></span>(the men of the host have each taken spoil for himself); <span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/31-54.htm"><b>54</b></a></span>and Moses takes—Eleazar the priest also—the gold from the heads of the thousands and of the hundreds, and they bring it into the Tent of Meeting [as] a memorial for the sons of Israel before YHWH.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Literal Standard Version<br>Copyright © 2022 by Covenant Press. 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