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Afterward you shall be gathered to your people.”</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/31-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="btext1">So Moses instructed the people, "Muster your men of war to attack the Midianites and deliver the LORD'S vengeance against Midian. <td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/31-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="btext2">So Moses spoke to the people, saying, “Arm men from among you for the war, that they may go against Midian to execute the LORD’s vengeance on Midian.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/31-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Send 1,000 men to war from every tribe throughout all of Israel." <td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/31-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="btext2">You shall send a thousand from each of the tribes of Israel to the war.”</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/31-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="btext1">So 1,000 men from every tribe—12,000 from the thousands of Israel—were mustered and equipped for war.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/31-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="btext2">So there were provided, out of the thousands of Israel, a thousand from each tribe, twelve thousand armed for war.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/31-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Moses sent 1,000 men from every tribe to fight against them, along with Eleazar's son Phinehas, in whose hands were the articles of the sanctuary and trumpets to sound battle alarms. <td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/31-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="btext2">And Moses sent them to the war, a thousand from each tribe, together with Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, with the vessels of the sanctuary and the trumpets for the alarm in his hand.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/31-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="btext1">They fought against the Midianites just as the LORD had commanded Moses, killing every man. <td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/31-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="btext2">They warred against Midian, as the LORD commanded Moses, and killed every male.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/31-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="btext1">They executed the five kings of Midian, including Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba. They also executed Beor's son Balaam with a sword. <td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/31-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="btext2">They killed the kings of Midian with the rest of their slain, Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba, the five kings of Midian. And they also killed Balaam the son of Beor with the sword.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/31-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="btext1">After this, the Israelis took captive the Midianite women and children and confiscated as spoils of war all their cattle, livestock, and their goods. <td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/31-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="btext2">And the people of Israel took captive the women of Midian and their little ones, and they took as plunder all their cattle, their flocks, and all their goods.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/31-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="btext1">They burned every town where they had lived and incinerated all of their encampments. <td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/31-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="btext2">All their cities in the places where they lived, and all their encampments, they burned with fire,</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/31-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="btext1">They took all the booty and plunder, including both humans and animals. <td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/31-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="btext2">and took all the spoil and all the plunder, both of man and of beast.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/31-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Then they brought the captives, booty, and plunder to Moses, to Eleazar the priest, and to the entire community of Israel at the camp on the plains of Moab, by the Jordan River in Jericho. <td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/31-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Then they brought the captives and the plunder and the spoil to Moses, and to Eleazar the priest, and to the congregation of the people of Israel, at the camp on the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/31-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Moses and Eleazar the priest and all the leaders of the community went out to meet them outside the camp.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/31-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Moses and Eleazar the priest and all the chiefs of the congregation went to meet them outside the camp.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/31-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="btext1">But Moses became livid with anger at the officers of the army, the captains of thousands, and the captains of hundreds who had returned from servicing in the battle. <td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/31-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="btext2">And Moses was angry with the officers of the army, the commanders of thousands and the commanders of hundreds, who had come from service in the war.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/31-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="btext1">"Did you keep all the women alive?" Moses asked them. <td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/31-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Moses said to them, “Have you let all the women live?</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/31-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><span class="btext1">"Look! These women were the same ones who were counseled by Balaam to cause the Israelis to commit a grievous sin against the LORD at Peor. As a result, that plague infected the LORD's community. <td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/31-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Behold, these, on Balaam’s advice, caused the people of Israel to act treacherously against the LORD in the incident of Peor, and so the plague came among the congregation of the LORD.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/31-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><span class="btext1">You are to kill every male child and every woman who has had sexual relations with a man.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/31-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Now therefore, kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who has known man by lying with him.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/31-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span><span class="btext1">You are to allow the young women who haven't yet had sexual relations with a man to live for yourselves."<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/31-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span><span class="btext2">But all the young girls who have not known man by lying with him keep alive for yourselves.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/31-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span><span class="btext1">"Now you are to stay outside the camp for seven days, after which any of you who has killed a person or touched someone who was killed may purify yourselves on the third day. You and your captives will be pure on the seventh day. <td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/31-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Encamp outside the camp seven days. Whoever of you has killed any person and whoever has touched any slain, purify yourselves and your captives on the third day and on the seventh day.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/31-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Furthermore, you are to purify every garment—that is, everything made of leather, goat's hair, or containing wood."<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/31-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span><span class="btext2">You shall purify every garment, every article of skin, all work of goats’ hair, and every article of wood.”</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/31-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Eleazar the priest told the soldiers who had gone to battle, "This is the ordinance of the law that the LORD commanded Moses <td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/31-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Then Eleazar the priest said to the men in the army who had gone to battle: “This is the statute of the law that the LORD has commanded Moses:</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/31-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span><span class="btext1">concerning anything containing gold, silver, brass, iron, tin, lead, <td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/31-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span><span class="btext2">only the gold, the silver, the bronze, the iron, the tin, and the lead,</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/31-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span><span class="btext1">or anything else that can survive a refiner's fire: You are to pass it through fire, after which it will be clean. Then it is to be purified with the water of impurity. Everything that cannot survive a refiner's fire is to be washed in water. <td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/31-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span><span class="btext2">everything that can stand the fire, you shall pass through the fire, and it shall be clean. Nevertheless, it shall also be purified with the water for impurity. And whatever cannot stand the fire, you shall pass through the water.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/31-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Wash your clothes on the seventh day, after which you will be clean. Then you may enter the camp."<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/31-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span><span class="btext2">You must wash your clothes on the seventh day, and you shall be clean. And afterward you may come into the camp.”</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/31-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Then the LORD told Moses, <td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/31-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span><span class="btext2">The LORD said to Moses,</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/31-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span><span class="btext1">"Take an inventory of the booty that was taken in the battle, both of humans and of animals. Then you, Eleazar the priest, and the leaders of the fathers of the community <td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/31-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span><span class="btext2">“Take the count of the plunder that was taken, both of man and of beast, you and Eleazar the priest and the heads of the fathers’ houses of the congregation,</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/31-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span><span class="btext1">are to divide the booty between the warriors who went to war and the rest of the community.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/31-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span><span class="btext2">and divide the plunder into two parts between the warriors who went out to battle and all the congregation.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/31-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span><span class="btext1">"After this, you are to exact a tribute for the LORD from the soldiers who went to war, consisting of the tribute earned by one person out of every 500, whether from people, cattle, donkeys, or flocks. <td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/31-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span><span class="btext2">And levy for the LORD a tribute from the men of war who went out to battle, one out of five hundred, of the people and of the oxen and of the donkeys and of the flocks.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/31-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span><span class="btext1">You are to take half their share and give it to Eleazar the priest as a raised offering to the LORD. <td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/31-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Take it from their half and give it to Eleazar the priest as a contribution to the LORD.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/31-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Then take half the share of the Israelis, one drawn out of every 50 people, cattle, donkeys, flocks, and from every animal, then give to the descendants of Levi who maintain the service of the LORD's tent."<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/31-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span><span class="btext2">And from the people of Israel’s half you shall take one drawn out of every fifty, of the people, of the oxen, of the donkeys, and of the flocks, of all the cattle, and give them to the Levites who keep guard over the tabernacle of the LORD.”</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/31-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span><span class="btext1">So Moses and Eleazar the priest did what the LORD had commanded Moses. <td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/31-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span><span class="btext2">And Moses and Eleazar the priest did as the LORD commanded Moses.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/31-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span><span class="btext1">The goods confiscated in excess of the war implements that the warriors had gathered included 675,000 sheep, <td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/31-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Now the plunder remaining of the spoil that the army took was 675,000 sheep,</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/31-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span><span class="btext1">72,000 cattle, <td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/31-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span><span class="btext2">72,000 cattle,</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/31-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span><span class="btext1">61,000 donkeys, and <td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/31-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span><span class="btext2">61,000 donkeys,</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/31-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span><span class="btext1">32,000 women who had not had sexual relations with a man.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/31-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span><span class="btext2">and 32,000 persons in all, women who had not known man by lying with him.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/31-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Now half of the share of those who went to war numbered 337,500 sheep, <td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/31-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span><span class="btext2">And the half, the portion of those who had gone out in the army, numbered 337,500 sheep,</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/31-37.htm"><b>37</b></a></span><span class="btext1">so the LORD's tribute from the sheep totaled 675. <td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/31-37.htm"><b>37</b></a></span><span class="btext2">and the LORD’s tribute of sheep was 675.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/31-38.htm"><b>38</b></a></span><span class="btext1">The cattle numbered 36,000, so the LORD's tribute totaled 72. <td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/31-38.htm"><b>38</b></a></span><span class="btext2">The cattle were 36,000, of which the LORD’s tribute was 72.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/31-39.htm"><b>39</b></a></span><span class="btext1">The donkeys numbered 30,500, so the LORD's tribute totaled 61. <td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/31-39.htm"><b>39</b></a></span><span class="btext2">The donkeys were 30,500, of which the LORD’s tribute was 61.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/31-40.htm"><b>40</b></a></span><span class="btext1">The people numbered 16,000, so the LORD's tribute totaled 32 people. <td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/31-40.htm"><b>40</b></a></span><span class="btext2">The persons were 16,000, of which the LORD’s tribute was 32 persons.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/31-41.htm"><b>41</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Then Moses gave the tribute, a raised offering to the LORD, to Eleazar the priest, just as the LORD had commanded Moses. <td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/31-41.htm"><b>41</b></a></span><span class="btext2">And Moses gave the tribute, which was the contribution for the LORD, to Eleazar the priest, as the LORD commanded Moses.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/31-42.htm"><b>42</b></a></span><span class="btext1">From half of the share of the Israelis that Moses had set aside from the soldiers, <td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/31-42.htm"><b>42</b></a></span><span class="btext2">From the people of Israel’s half, which Moses separated from that of the men who had served in the army—</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/31-43.htm"><b>43</b></a></span><span class="btext1">there were 337,500 sheep for the community, <td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/31-43.htm"><b>43</b></a></span><span class="btext2">now the congregation’s half was 337,500 sheep,</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/31-44.htm"><b>44</b></a></span><span class="btext1">36,000 cattle, <td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/31-44.htm"><b>44</b></a></span><span class="btext2">36,000 cattle,</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/31-45.htm"><b>45</b></a></span><span class="btext1">30,500 donkeys, <td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/31-45.htm"><b>45</b></a></span><span class="btext2">and 30,500 donkeys,</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/31-46.htm"><b>46</b></a></span><span class="btext1">and 16,000 people.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/31-46.htm"><b>46</b></a></span><span class="btext2">and 16,000 persons—</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/31-47.htm"><b>47</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Moses took a portion drawn from every 50 Israelis, including from both human and animals, and gave them to the descendants of Levi who maintained the LORD's tent, just as the LORD had commanded him.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/31-47.htm"><b>47</b></a></span><span class="btext2">from the people of Israel’s half Moses took one of every 50, both of persons and of beasts, and gave them to the Levites who kept guard over the tabernacle of the LORD, as the LORD commanded Moses.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/31-48.htm"><b>48</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Then the officers in charge of thousands of soldiers, the captains of thousands, and the captains of hundreds approached Moses <td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/31-48.htm"><b>48</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Then the officers who were over the thousands of the army, the commanders of thousands and the commanders of hundreds, came near to Moses</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/31-49.htm"><b>49</b></a></span><span class="btext1">and told him, "Your servants took a count of the soldiers who were under our authority. We didn't miss a single man. <td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/31-49.htm"><b>49</b></a></span><span class="btext2">and said to Moses, “Your servants have counted the men of war who are under our command, and there is not a man missing from us.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/31-50.htm"><b>50</b></a></span><span class="btext1">We've brought offerings to the LORD from whatever each man found—jewel-encrusted gold, anklets, bracelets, signet rings, earrings, and necklaces—to make atonement for ourselves in the LORD's presence."<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/31-50.htm"><b>50</b></a></span><span class="btext2">And we have brought the LORD’s offering, what each man found, articles of gold, armlets and bracelets, signet rings, earrings, and beads, to make atonement for ourselves before the LORD.”</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/31-51.htm"><b>51</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Then Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold from them and everything that was fashioned into jewels. <td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/31-51.htm"><b>51</b></a></span><span class="btext2">And Moses and Eleazar the priest received from them the gold, all crafted articles.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/31-52.htm"><b>52</b></a></span><span class="btext1">The gold for the raised offering that they brought to the LORD totaled 16,750 shekels, <td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/31-52.htm"><b>52</b></a></span><span class="btext2">And all the gold of the contribution that they presented to the LORD, from the commanders of thousands and the commanders of hundreds, was 16,750 shekels.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/31-53.htm"><b>53</b></a></span><span class="btext1">because every soldier had confiscated war booty for his own use. <td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/31-53.htm"><b>53</b></a></span><span class="btext2">(The men in the army had each taken plunder for himself.)</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/31-54.htm"><b>54</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Moses and Eleazar took the gold from the captains of thousands and hundreds and brought it to the Tent of Meeting, to serve as a memorial to the Israelis in the LORD's presence.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/31-54.htm"><b>54</b></a></span><span class="btext2">And Moses and Eleazar the priest received the gold from the commanders of thousands and of hundreds, and brought it into the tent of meeting, as a memorial for the people of Israel before the LORD.</span></td></tr></table><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td class="copy" width="50%">The Holy Bible: International Standard Version® Release 2.1 Copyright © 1996-2012 The ISV Foundation<br />ALL RIGHTS RESERVED INTERNATIONALLY.</td><td class="copy" width="50%">ESV Text Edition: 2016. 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