Vengeance on Midian

1And the Lorde spake vnto Moses, saying, 2Reuenge the children of Israel of the Midianites, and afterwarde shalt thou be gathered vnto thy people. 3And Moses spake to the people, saying, Harnesse some of you vnto warre, and let them goe against Midian, to execute the vengeance of the Lord against Midian. 4A thousande of euery tribe throughout all the tribes of Israel, shall ye sende to the warre. 5So there were taken out of the thousands of Israel, twelue thousande prepared vnto warre, of euery tribe a thousand. 6And Moses sent them to the warre, euen a thousand of euery tribe, and sent them with Phinehas the sonne of Eleazar the Priest to the warre: and the holy instruments, that is, the trumpets to blow were in his hand. 7And they warred against Midian, as the Lorde had commaunded Moses, and slue all the males. 8They slue also the Kings of Midian among them that were slaine: Eui and Rekem, and Zur, and Hur and Reba fiue kings of Midian, and they slue Balaam the sonne of Beor with the sworde: 9But the children of Israel tooke the women of Midian prisoners, and their children, and spoyled all their cattell, and all their flockes, and all their goods. 10And they burnt all their cities, wherein they dwelt, and all their villages with fire. 11And they tooke all the spoyle and all the pray both of men and beastes. 12And they brought the captiues and that which they had taken, and the spoyle vnto Moses and to Eleazar the Priest, and vnto the Congregation of the children of Israel, into ye campe in the playne of Moab, which was by Iorden toward Iericho.

13Then Moses and Eleazar the Priest, and all the princes of the Congregation went out of the campe to meete them. 14And Moses was angry with the captaines of the hoste, with the captaines ouer thousands, and captaines ouer hundreds, which came from the warre and battel. 15And Moses sayde vnto them, What? haue ye saued all the women? 16Behold, these caused the children of Israel through the counsell of Balaam to commit a trespasse against the Lorde, as concerning Peor, and there came a plague among the Congregation of the Lorde. 17Now therefore, slay all the males among the children, and kill all the women that haue knowen man by carnall copulation. 18But all the women children that haue not knowen carnall copulation, keepe aliue for your selues. 19And ye shal remaine without the host seuen dayes, all that haue killed any person, and all that haue touched any dead, and purifie both your selues and your prisoners the third day and the seuenth. 20Also ye shall purifie euery garment and all that is made of skins & al worke of goates heare, and all things made of wood.

21And Eleazar ye Priest sayd vnto the men of warre, which went to the battel, This is the ordinance of the law which the Lorde commanded Moses, 22As for gold, and siluer, brasse, yron, tynne, and lead: 23Euen all that may abide the fire, yee shall make it goe through the fire, and it shalbe cleane: yet, it shalbe purified with the water of purification: and all that suffereth not the fire, yee shall cause to passe by the water. 24Ye shal wash also your clothes the seuenth day, and ye shalbe cleane: and afterward ye shal come into the Hoste.

Division of the Spoils

25And the Lord spake vnto Moses, saying, 26Take the summe of the praie that was taken, both of persons and of cattell, thou and Eleazar the Priest, and the chiefe fathers of the Congregation. 27And deuide the praye betweene the souldiers that went to the warre, and all the Congregation. 28And thou shalt take a tribute vnto ye Lord of the men of warre, which went out to battel: one person of fiue hundreth, both of the persons, and of the beeues, & of the asses, & of the sheepe. 29Yee shall take it of their halfe and giue it vnto Eleazar the Priest, as an heaue offring of the Lorde. 30But of the halfe of the children of Israel thou shalt take one, taken out of fiftie, both of the persons, of the beeues, of the asses, and of the sheepe, euen of all the cattel: and thou shalt giue them vnto the Leuites, which haue the charge of the Tabernacle of the Lord. 31And Moses and Eleazar the priest did as the Lord had commanded Moses.

32And the bootie, to wit, the rest of the praie which the men of warre had spoyled, was sixe hundreth seuentie and fiue thousand sheepe, 33And seuentie and two thousand beeues, 34And three score and one thousand asses, 35And two and thirtie thousande persons in all, of women that had lyen by no man.

36And the halfe, to wit, the part of them that went out to warre touching the nomber of sheepe, was three hundreth seuen and thirtie thousand, and fiue hundreth. 37And the Lordes tribute of the sheepe was sixe hundreth and seuentie and fiue: 38And the beeues were six & thirty thousad, whereof the Lordes tribute was seuentie & two. 39And the asses were thirtie thousande and fiue hundreth, whereof the Lordes tribute was three score and one: 40And of persons sixtene thousand, whereof the Lordes tribute was two and thirtie persons. 41And Moses gaue the tribute of the Lordes offring vnto Eleazar the Priest, as the Lorde had commanded Moses.

42And of the halfe of the children of Israel, which Moses deuided from the men of warre, 43(For the halfe that perteined vnto the Congregation, was three hundreth thirtie and seuen thousand sheepe and fiue hundreth, 44And sixe and thirtie thousand beeues, 45And thirtie thousand asses, & fiue hudreth, 46And sixteene thousande persons) 47Moses, I say, tooke of the halfe that perteined vnto the children of Israel, one taken out of fiftie, both of the persons, and of the cattell, and gaue them vnto the Leuites, which haue the charge of the Tabernacle of the Lorde, as the Lorde had commanded Moses.

The Voluntary Offering

48Then the captaines which were ouer thousandes of the hoste, the captaines ouer the thousandes, and the captaines ouer the hundreds came vnto Moses: 49And saide to Moses, Thy seruants haue taken the summe of the men of warre which are vnder our authoritie, and there lacketh not one man of vs. 50We haue therefore brought a present vnto the Lorde, what euery man found of iewels of golde, bracelets, and cheines, rings, eare ringes, and ornaments of the legges, to make an atonement for our soules before the Lorde. 51And Moses and Eleazar the Priest tooke the golde of them, and all wrought iewels, 52And all the golde of the offring that they offered vp to the Lorde (of the captaines ouer thousands and hundreds) was sixteene thousande seuen hundreth and fiftie shekels, 53(For the men of warre had spoyled, euery man for him selfe) 54And Moses and Eleazar the Priest tooke the golde of the captaines ouer the thousandes, and ouer the hundreds, and brought it into the Tabernacle of the Congregation, for a memoriall of the children of Israel before the Lorde.