1And LORD JEHOVAH spoke with Moshe and said to him: 2“Be avenged with the vengeance of the children of Israel from the Midianites and then you shall be gathered to your people.” 3And Moshe said to the people: “Arm some of your men for the army and they shall be against the Midianites and they shall avenge the vengeance of LORD JEHOVAH from the Midianites. 4Send one thousand from a tribe of all of the tribes of the children of Israel into the army. 5And they chose a thousand from the tribes of the sons of Israel, a thousand from a tribe, twelve thousand armed in the army. 6And Moshe sent them one thousand from a tribe, twelve thousands who armed themselves, and Phinekhas, son of Eliazer the Priest, in the army, and articles of holiness and trumpets to blow in his hand. 7And they were strengthened against Midian, as LORD JEHOVAH commanded Moshe, and they killed every male. 8And they killed the Kings of Midian with their slain: Avi and Raqem and Tsur and Khur and Raba, five Kings, Midianites, and they killed Balaam, son of Beor, with a sword. 9And the sons of Israel took the women of Midian and their little ones captive and they plundered all their livestock and all their possessions and all their wealth. 10And all the towns of the place of their dwelling and all their fields they burned in fire. 11And they led all the captivity and all of the daughters of the children of men and of the domestic animals. 12And they brought the captivity and the prey and the plunder to Moshe and to Eliazer the Priest and to all of the assembly of the children of Israel to the encampment on the plain of Moab by the Jordan of Yerikho.

13And Moshe and Eliazar the Priest and all the Princes of the assembly went out to meet them outside of the camp. 14And Moshe was angry against the Commanders of the army, the Leaders of thousands and Captains of hundreds who came from the army of war. 15And Moshe said to them, “Why have you saved all the females? 16For these were a subversion to the sons of Israel by the word of Balaam and they provoked and caused evil against LORD JEHOVAH in the matter of Peor, and it was a sudden plague in the assembly of LORD JEHOVAH. 17Now kill all of the boys of the males and kill every woman who has known sexual relations of males. 18And every female child of women that has not known sexual relations of males save for yourselves. 19But you dwell outside of the camp seven days; everyone who kills a person and everyone who approaches one killed, sprinkle upon him in the third day and in the seventh day, you and your captives. 20And sprinkle upon all cloaks and all garments of leather and every product of hair and every article of wood.”

21And Eliazer the Priest told the men of the army who came from this war the commandment of the law that LORD JEHOVAH had commanded to Moshe; 22“However gold and silver and brass and iron and tin and lead. 23And everything that enters the furnace, pass it through the fire and it shall be purified, and sprinkle the water of sprinkling upon it and immerse all that has not passed through the fire in water. 24And purify your garments on the seventh day and you shall be purified, and after that you shall enter the encampment.”

25And LORD JEHOVAH spoke with Moshe and said to him: 26“Take a count of the prey and of the captives of the children of men and of the animals, you and Eliazar the Priest and the Chiefs of the fathers of the assembly: 27And divide the prey among the men, the makers of war who went out in the army and among all of the assembly: 28And set apart a tax to LORD JEHOVAH from the men, the makers of war who went out in the army and from all of the assembly: one soul of fifty of the children of men and of oxen and of donkeys and of sheep: 29And from their half take and give to Eliazer the Priest a gift of LORD JEHOVAH. 30And from the half of the children of Israel take one of fifty from the men and from the donkeys and from bulls and from the sheep and from all domestic animals, and give them to the Levites who keep the watch of the Tabernacle of LORD JEHOVAH.” 31And Moshe and Eliazar the Priest did as LORD JEHOVAH commanded Moshe.

32And there were six hundred and seventy and five thousand sheep of the prey and the captives that the people and the army plundered, 33And bulls, seventy and two thousand, 34And donkeys, sixty and one thousand, 35And souls of people of the women who did not know sexual relations of males, all the souls, thirty and two thousand.

36And the division in the portion of those who had gone into the army was: sheep, three hundred and thirty and seven thousand and five hundred: 37And the tax for LORD JEHOVAH from the sheep was six thousand and seven hundred and fifty. 38And oxen, thirty and six thousand, and their tax to LORD JEHOVAH: seven hundred and twenty. 39And donkeys, thirty thousand and five hundred, and their tax to LORD JEHOVAH: six hundred and ten. 40And the souls of men, sixteen thousand, and their tax to LORD JEHOVAH: three hundred and twenty souls. 41And Moshe gave the money of the gift of LORD JEHOVAH to Eliazer the Priest as LORD JEHOVAH commanded Moshe.

42From the half of the children of Israel that Moshe divided to them, of the men that had gone into the army, 43And the division of the assembly of the sheep was three hundred and thirty and seven thousand and five hundred, 44And bulls, thirty and six thousand, 45And donkeys, thirty thousand and five hundred, 46And the souls of men, sixteen thousand. 47And Moshe took from the half of the children Israel, one of fifty of the children of men, and from beasts, and he gave them to the Levites who keep guard of the Tabernacle of LORD JEHOVAH, as LORD JEHOVAH commanded Moshe.

48And the men who were put in charge over a thousand of the army approached to Moshe, Leaders of a thousand and Leaders of a hundred: 49And they said to Moshe: “Your Servants took a count of the army of men, the makers of war of our people, and no man of us is lacking. 50And we bring the offering of LORD JEHOVAH, each man who finds articles of gold, anklets and bracelets and rings and earrings and necklaces, to atone for our souls before LORD JEHOVAH.” 51And Moshe and Eliazar the Priest took the gold from them, all articles that are made. 52And all the gold of the offering that was offered to LORD JEHOVAH was sixteen thousand and seven hundred and fifty shekels from the Chiefs of thousands and from the Chiefs of hundreds. 53But the men of the army plundered them, each man for himself. 54And Moshe and Eliazar the Priest took gold from the Heads of thousands and from the Heads of hundreds and they brought it to the Time Tabernacle as a memorial for the children of Israel before LORD JEHOVAH.