| [an error occurred while processing this directive] | New American Standard Bible 1995 |
| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2"Take full vengeance for the sons of Israel on the Midianites; afterward you will be gathered to your people." |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3Moses 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. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4"A thousand from each tribe of all the tribes of Israel you shall send to the war." |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5So there were furnished from the thousands of Israel, a thousand from each tribe, twelve thousand armed for war. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6Moses sent them, a thousand from each tribe, to the war, and Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, to the war with them, and the holy vessels and the trumpets for the alarm in his hand. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7So they made war against Midian, just as the LORD had commanded Moses, and they killed every male. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8They killed the kings of Midian along with the rest of their slain: Evi and Rekem and Zur and Hur and Reba, the five kings of Midian; they also killed Balaam the son of Beor with the sword. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9The sons of Israel captured the women of Midian and their little ones; and all their cattle and all their flocks and all their goods they plundered. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10Then they burned all their cities where they lived and all their camps with fire. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11They took all the spoil and all the prey, both of man and of beast. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12They brought 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 at the plains of Moab, which are by the Jordan opposite Jericho. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13Moses and Eleazar the priest and all the leaders of the congregation went out to meet them outside the camp. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14Moses was angry with the officers of the army, the captains of thousands and the captains of hundreds, who had come from service in the war. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15And Moses said to them, "Have you spared all the women? |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16"Behold, these caused the sons of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to trespass against the LORD in the matter of Peor, so the plague was among the congregation of the LORD. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17"Now therefore, kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who has known man intimately. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18"But all the girls who have not known man intimately, spare for yourselves. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19"And you, camp outside the camp seven days; whoever has killed any person and whoever has touched any slain, purify yourselves, you and your captives, on the third day and on the seventh day. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20"You shall purify for yourselves every garment and every article of leather and all the work of goats' hair, and all articles of wood." |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21Then Eleazar the priest said to the men of war who had gone to battle, "This is the statute of the law which the LORD has commanded Moses: |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22only the gold and the silver, the bronze, the iron, the tin and the lead, |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23everything that can stand the fire, you shall pass through the fire, and it shall be clean, but it shall be purified with water for impurity. But whatever cannot stand the fire you shall pass through the water. |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24"And you shall wash your clothes on the seventh day and be clean, and afterward you may enter the camp." |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26"You and Eleazar the priest and the heads of the fathers' households of the congregation take a count of the booty that was captured, both of man and of animal; |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27and divide the booty between the warriors who went out to battle and all the congregation. |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28"Levy a tax for the LORD from the men of war who went out to battle, one in five hundred of the persons and of the cattle and of the donkeys and of the sheep; |
| 29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29take it from their half and give it to Eleazar the priest, as an offering to the LORD. |
| 30[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 30"From the sons of Israel's half, you shall take one drawn out of every fifty of the persons, of the cattle, of the donkeys and of the sheep, from all the animals, and give them to the Levites who keep charge of the tabernacle of the LORD." |
| 31[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 31Moses and Eleazar the priest did just as the LORD had commanded Moses. |
| 32[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 32Now the booty that remained from the spoil which the men of war had plundered was 675,000 sheep, |
| 33[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 33and 72,000 cattle, |
| 34[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 34and 61,000 donkeys, |
| 35[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 35and of human beings, of the women who had not known man intimately, all the persons were 32,000. |
| 36[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 36The half, the portion of those who went out to war, was as follows: the number of sheep was 337,500, |
| 37[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 37and the LORD'S levy of the sheep was 675; |
| 38[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 38and the cattle were 36,000, from which the LORD'S levy was 72; |
| 39[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 39and the donkeys were 30,500, from which the LORD'S levy was 61; |
| 40[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 40and the human beings were 16,000, from whom the LORD'S levy was 32 persons. |
| 41[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 41Moses gave the levy which was the LORD'S offering to Eleazar the priest, just as the LORD had commanded Moses. |
| 42[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 42As for the sons of Israel's half, which Moses separated from the men who had gone to war-- |
| 43[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 43now the congregation's half was 337,500 sheep, |
| 44[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 44and 36,000 cattle, |
| 45[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 45and 30,500 donkeys, |
| 46[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 46and the human beings were 16,000-- |
| 47[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 47and from the sons of Israel's half, Moses took one drawn out of every fifty, both of man and of animals, and gave them to the Levites, who kept charge of the tabernacle of the LORD, just as the LORD had commanded Moses. |
| 48[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 48Then the officers who were over the thousands of the army, the captains of thousands and the captains of hundreds, approached Moses, |
| 49[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 49and they said to Moses, "Your servants have taken a census of men of war who are in our charge, and no man of us is missing. |
| 50[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 50"So we have brought as an offering to the LORD what each man found, articles of gold, armlets and bracelets, signet rings, earrings and necklaces, to make atonement for ourselves before the LORD." |
| 51[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 51Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold from them, all kinds of wrought articles. |
| 52[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 52All the gold of the offering which they offered up to the LORD, from the captains of thousands and the captains of hundreds, was 16,750 shekels. |
| 53[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 53The men of war had taken booty, every man for himself. |
| 54[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 54So Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold from the captains of thousands and of hundreds, and brought it to the tent of meeting as a memorial for the sons of Israel before the LORD. |
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