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chapter 31
1
And
the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
2 Revenge first the children of Israel on the
Madianites, and so thou shalt be gathered to thy people.
3 And Moses forthwith said: Arm of you men to fight,
who may take the revenge of the Lord on the Madianites.
4 Let a thousand men be chosen out of every tribe of
Israel to be sent to the war.
5 And they gave a thousand of every tribe, that is to
say, twelve thousand men well appointed for battle.
6 And Moses sent them with Phinees the son of Eleazar
the priest, and he delivered to him the holy vessels, and the trumpets to
sound.
7 And when they had fought against the Madianites and
had overcome them, they slew all the men.
8 And their kings Evi, and Recem, and Sur, and Hur, and
Rebe, five princes of the nation: Balaam also the son of Beer they killed with
the sword.
9 And they took their women, and their children
captives, and all their cattle, and all their goods: and all their possessions
they plundered:
10 And all their cities, and their villages, and
castles, they burned.
11 And they carried away the booty, and all that they
had taken both of men and of beasts.
12 And they brought them to Moses, and Eleazar the
priest, and to all the multitude of the children of Israel. But the rest of the
things for use they carried to the camp on the plains of Moab, beside the
Jordan over against Jericho.
13 And Moses and Eleazar the priest and all the princes
of the synagogue went forth to meet them without the camp.
14 And Moses being angry with the chief officers of the
army, the tribunes, and the centurions that were come from the battle,
15 Said: Why have you saved the women?
16 Are not these they, that deceived the children of
Israel by the counsel of Balaam, and made you transgress against the Lord by
the sin of Phogor, for which also the people was punished?
17 Therefore kill all that are of the male sex, even of
the children: and put to death the women, that have carnally known men.
18 But the girls, and all the women that are virgins
save for yourselves:
19 And stay without the camp seven days. He that hath
killed a man, or touched one that is killed, shall be purified the third day
and the seventh day.
20 And of all the spoil, every garment, or vessel, or
any thing made for use, of the skins, or hair of goats, or of wood, shall be
purified.
21 Eleazar also the priest spoke to the men of the
army, that had fought, in this manner: This is the ordinance of the law, which
the Lord hath commanded Moses:
22 Gold, and silver, and brass, and iron, and lend, and
tin,
23 And all that may pass through the fire, shall be
purified by fire, but whatsoever cannot abide the fire, shall be sanctified
with the water of expiation:
24 And you shall wash your garments the seventh day,
and being purified, you shall afterwards enter into the camp.
25 And the Lord said to Moses:
26 Take the sum of the things that were taken both of
man and beast, thou and Eleazar the priest and the princes of the multitude:
27 And thou shalt divide the spoil equally, between
them that fought and went out to the war, and between the rest of the
multitude.
28 And thou shalt separate a portion to the Lord from
them that fought and were in the battle, one soul of five hundred as well of
persons as of oxen and asses and sheep.
29 And thou shalt give it to Eleazar the priest,
because they are the firstfruits of the Lord.
30 Out of the moiety also of the children of Israel
thou shalt take the fiftieth head of persons, and of oxen, and asses, and
sheep, and of all beasts, and thou shalt give them to the Levites that watch in
the charge of the tabernacle of the Lord.
31 And Moses and Eleazar did as the Lord had commanded.
32 And the spoil which the army had taken, was six
hundred seventy-five thousand sheep,
33 Seventy-two thousand oxen,
34 Sixty-one thousand asses:
35 And thirty-two thousand persons of the female sex,
that had not known men.
36 And one half was given to them that had been in the
battle, to wit, three hundred thirty-seven thousand five hundred sheep:
37 Out of which, for the portion of the Lord, were
reckoned six hundred seventy-five sheep.
38 And out of the thirty-six thousand oxen, seventy-two
oxen:
39 Out of the thirty thousand five hundred asses,
sixty-one asses:
40 Out of the sixteen thousand persons, there fell to
the portion of the Lord, thirty-two souls.
41 And Moses delivered the number of the firstfruits of
the Lord to Eleazar the priest, as had been commanded him,
42 Out of the half of the children of Israel, which he
had separated for them that had been in the battle.
43 But out of the half that fell to the rest of the
multitude, that is to say, out of the three hundred thirty-seven thousand five
hundred sheep,
44 And out of the thirty-six thousand oxen,
45 And out of the thirty thousand five hundred asses,
46 And out of the sixteen thousand persons,
47 Moses took the fiftieth head, and gave it to the
Levites that watched in the tabernacle of the Lord, as the Lord had commanded.
48 And when the commanders of the army, and the
tribunes and centurions were come to Moses, they said:
49 We thy servants have reckoned up the number of the
fighting men, whom we had under our hand, and not so much as one was wanting.
50 Therefore we offer as gifts to the Lord what gold
every one of us could find in the booty, in garters and tablets, rings and
bracelets, and chains, that thou mayst pray to the Lord for us.
51 And Moses and Eleazar the priest received all the
gold in divers kinds,
52 In weight sixteen thousand seven hundred and fifty
sicles, from the tribunes and from the centurions.
53 For that which every one had taken in the booty was
his own.
54 And that which was received they brought into the
tabernacle of the testimony, for a memorial of the children of Israel before
the Lord.
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