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1 And Jehovah will speak to Moses, saying, 2 Avenge the avenging of the sons of Israel of the Midianites: afterwards thou shalt be gathered to thy people. 3 And Moses will speak to the people, saying, Arm from yourselves the men for war, and they shall be against Midian, to give the avenging of Jehovah upon Midian. 4 A thousand to a tribe, a thousand to a tribe, for all the tribes of Israel, ye shall send to war. 5 And there shall be separated from the thousands of Israel a thousand for a tribe, twelve thousand armed for war. 6 And Moses will send them a thousand for a tribe, to war, them and Phinehas, son of Eleazar the priest, to war, and the holy vessels, and the trumpets of the signal in his hand. 7 And they will go forth against Midian as Jehovah commanded Moses; and they killed every male. 8 And they killed the kings of Midian upon those being slain: Evi and Rekem, and Zur, and Hur, and Reba, five kings of Midian: and they killed Balaam, son of Beor, with the sword. 9 And the sons of Israel will take captive the women of Midian and their little ones, and all their cattle, and all their possessions, and they plundered all their strength. 10 And their cities with their dwellings, and all their walls they burnt in fire. 11 And they will take all the plunder and all the spoil, in man and in cattle. 12 And they will bring to Moses and to Eleazar the priest, and to the assembly of the sons of Israel, the captivity and the spoil and the plunder, to the camp to the desert of Moab, which is by Jordan of Jericho. 13 And Moses and Eleazar the priest, and all the chiefs of the assembly will come forth to their meeting without the camp. 14 And Moses will be angry against the officers of the army, the captains of thousands, and the captains of hundreds coming from the war of the battle. 15 And Moses will say to them, Preserved ye alive every female? 16 Behold, they were to the sons of Israel by the word of Balaam for separating treacherously against Jehovah, concerning the word of Peor; and there will be a smiting in the assembly of Jehovah. 17 And now kill every male among the little ones; and every woman know in man by the bed of a male, do ye kill. 18 And all the little ones among the women who knew not the bed of a male, preserve ye alive for yourselves. Numbers 31:1-18, Smith's Literal Translation. Public domain.
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