Numbers Chapter 31

Numbers Chapter 31
1 And the Lord spake unto Moses,
saying,
2 Revenge the children of Israel of the
Midianites, and afterward shalt thou be
gathered unto thy people.
3 And Moses spake to the people,
saying, Harness some of you unto war,
and let them go against Midian, to
execute the vengeance of the Lord
against Midian.
4 A thousand of every tribe throughout
all the tribes of Israel, shall ye send to
the war.
5 So there were taken out of the
thousands of Israel, twelve thousand
prepared unto war, of every tribe a
thousand.
6 And Moses sent them to the war, even
a thousand of every tribe, and sent them
with Phinehas the son of Eleazar the
priest to the war: and the holy
instruments, that is, the trumpets to blow
were in his hand. 7 And they warred
against Midian, as the Lord had
commanded Moses, and slew all the
males.
8 They slew also the kings of Midian
among them that were slain: Evi and
Rekem, and Zur, and Hur and Reba five
kings of Midian, and they slew Balaam
the son of Beor with the sword:
9 But the children of Israel took the
women of Midian prisoners, and their
children, and spoiled all their cattle, and
all their flocks, and all their goods. 10
And they burned all their cities, wherein
they dwelt, and all their villages with
fire.
11 And they took all the spoil and all the
prey both of men and beasts. 12 And
they brought the captives and that which
they had taken, and the spoil unto Moses
and to Eleazar the priest, and unto the
congregation of the children of Israel,
into the camp in the plain of Moab,
which was by Jordan toward Jericho.
13 Then Moses and Eleazar the priest,
and all the princes of the congregation
went out of the camp to meet them.
14 And Moses was angry with the
captains of the host, with the captains
over thousands, and captains over
hundreds, which came from the war and
battle. 15 And Moses said unto them,
What? Have ye saved all the women?
16 Behold, these caused the children of
Israel through the counsel of Balaam to
commit a trespass against the Lord, as
concerning Peor, and there came a
plague among the congregation of the
Lord.
17 Now therefore, slay all the males
among the children, and kill all the
women that have known man by carnal
copulation.
18 But all the women children that have
not known carnal copulation keep alive
for yourselves.
19 And ye shall remain without the host
seven days, all that have killed any
person, and all that have touched any
dead, and purify both yourselves and
your prisoners the third day and the
seventh.
20 Also ye shall purify every garment
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 As for
gold, and sliver, brass, iron, tin, and
lead:
23 Even all that may abide the fire, ye
shall make it go through the fire, and it
shall be clean: yet, it shall be purified
with the water of purification: and all
that suffereth not the fire, ye shall cause
to pass by the water.
24 Ye shall wash also your clothes the
seventh day, and ye shall be clean: and
afterward ye shall come into the host.
25 And the Lord spake unto Moses,
saying,
26 Take the sum of the prey that was
taken, both of persons and of cattle, thou
and Eleazar the priest, and the chief
fathers of the congregation. 27 And
divide the prey between the soldiers that
went to the war, and all the
congregation.
28 And thou shalt take a tribute unto the
Lord of the men of war, which went out
to battle: one person of five hundred,
both of the persons, and of the beeves,
and of the asses, and of the sheep.
29 Ye shall take it of their half and give
it unto Eleazar the priest, as an heave
offering of the Lord.
30 But of the half of the children of
Israel thou shalt take one, taken out of
fifty, both of the persons, of the beeves,
of the asses, and of the sheep, even of all
the cattle: and thou shalt give them unto
the Levites, which have the charge of the
tabernacle of the Lord.
31 And Moses and Eleazar the priest did
as the Lord had commanded Moses. 32
And the booty, to wit, the rest of the prey
which the men of war had spoiled, was
six hundred seventy and five thousand
sheep,
33 And seventy and two thousand
beeves,
34 And three score and one thousand
asses,
35 And two and thirty thousand persons
in all of women that had lain by no man.
36 And the half, to wit, the part of them
that went out to war touching the number
of sheep, was three hundred seven and
thirty thousand, and five hundred.
37 And the Lord’s tribute of the sheep
was six hundred and seventy and five:
38 And the beeves were six and thirty
thousand, whereof the Lord’s tribute was
seventy and two.
39 And the asses were thirty thousand
and five hundred, whereof the Lord’s
tribute was three score and one:
40 And of persons sixteen thousand,
whereof the Lord’s tribute was two and
thirty persons.
41 And Moses gave the tribute of the
Lord’s offering unto Eleazar the priest,
as the Lord had commanded Moses.
42 And of the half of the children of
Israel, which Moses divided from the
men of war,
43 (For the half that pertained unto the
congregation, was three hundred thirty
and seven thousand sheep and five
hundred,
44 And six and thirty thousand beeves,
45 And thirty thousand asses, and five
hundred,
46 And sixteen thousand persons)
47 Moses, I say, took of the half that
pertained unto the children of Israel, one
taken out of fifty, both of the persons,
and of the cattle, and gave them unto the
Levites, which have the charge of the
tabernacle of the Lord, as the Lord had
commanded Moses.
48 Then the captains which were over
thousands of the host, the captains over
the thousands, and the captains over the
hundreds came unto Moses: 49 And said
to Moses, Thy servants have taken the
sum of the men of war which are under
our authority, and there lacketh not one
man of us. 50 We have therefore brought
a present unto the Lord, what every man
found of jewels of gold, bracelets, and
chains, rings, earrings, and ornaments of
the legs, to make an atonement for our
souls before the Lord.
51 And Moses and Eleazar the priest
took the gold of them, and all wrought
jewels,
52 And all the gold of the offering that
they offered up to the Lord (of the
captains over thousands and hundreds)
was sixteen thousand seven hundred and
fifty shekels,
53 ( For the men of war had spoiled,
every man for himself) 54 And Moses
and Eleazar the priest took the gold of
the captains over the thousands, and over
the hundreds, and brought it into the
tabernacle of the congregation, for a
memorial of the children of Israel before
the Lord.