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1 ADONAI said to Moshe,
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And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
2 "On behalf of the people of Isra'el, take vengeance on the Midyanim. After that, you will be gathered to your people."
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Avenge the children of Israel of the Midianites: afterward shalt thou be gathered unto thy people.
3 Moshe said to the people, "Equip men from among yourselves for war. They are to go and fight Midyan, in order to carry out ADONAI's vengeance on Midyan.
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And Moses spake unto the people, saying, Arm some of yourselves unto the war, and let them go against the Midianites, and avenge the LORD of Midian.
4 You are to send to the war a thousand men from every one of Isra'el's tribes."
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Of every tribe a thousand, throughout all the tribes of Israel, shall ye send to the war.
5 So out of the thousands of people in Isra'el, a thousand armed men from each tribe, 12,000 altogether, were mustered for war.
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So there were delivered out of the thousands of Israel, a thousand of every tribe, twelve thousand armed for war.
6 Moshe sent them, a thousand from each tribe, to the war; he sent them and Pinchas the son of El'azar the cohen to the war, with the holy utensils and the trumpets for sounding the alarm in his care.
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And Moses sent them to the war, a thousand of every tribe, them and Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, to the war, with the holy instruments, and the trumpets to blow in his hand.
7 They fought against Midyan, as ADONAI had ordered Moshe, and killed every male.
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And they warred against the Midianites, as the LORD commanded Moses; and they slew all the males.
8 They killed the kings of Midyan along with the others who were slain - Evi, Rekem, Tzur, Hur and Reva, the five kings of Midyan. They also killed Bil'am the son of B'or with the sword.
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And they slew the kings of Midian, beside the rest of them that were slain; namely, Evi, and Rekem, and Zur, and Hur, and Reba, five kings of Midian: Balaam also the son of Beor they slew with the sword.
9 The people of Isra'el took captive the women of Midyan and their little ones, and they took as booty all their cattle, flocks and other goods.
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And the children of Israel took all the women of Midian captives, and their little ones, and took the spoil of all their cattle, and all their flocks, and all their goods.
10 They set fire to all their cities in the areas where they lived and all their camps.
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And they burnt all their cities wherein they dwelt, and all their goodly castles, with fire.
11 They took all the booty, all the people and animals they had captured,
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And they took all the spoil, and all the prey, both of men and of beasts.
12 and brought the captives, booty and spoil to Moshe, El'azar the cohen and the community of Isra'el in the camp on the plains of Mo'av by the Yarden across from Yericho.
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And they brought the captives, and the prey, and the spoil, unto Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and unto the congregation of the children of Israel, unto the camp at the plains of Moab, which are by Jordan near Jericho.
13 Moshe, El'azar the cohen and all the community leaders went to meet them outside the camp.
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And Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and all the princes of the congregation, went forth to meet them without the camp.
14 But Moshe was angry with the army officers, the commanders of thousands and the commanders of hundreds coming in from the battlefield.
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And Moses was wroth with the officers of the host, with the captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, which came from the battle.
15 Moshe asked them, "You let the women live?
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And Moses said unto them, Have ye saved all the women alive?
16 Why, these are the ones who - because of Bil'am's advice -caused the people of Isra'el to rebel, breaking faith with ADONAI in the P'or incident, so that the plague broke out among ADONAI's community!
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Behold, these caused the children of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to commit trespass against the LORD in the matter of Peor, and there was a plague among the congregation of the LORD.
17 Now kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who has ever slept with a man.
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Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him.
18 But the young girls who have never slept with a man, keep alive for yourselves.
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But all the women children, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.
19 Pitch your tents outside the camp for seven days. Whoever has killed a person or touched the corpse of someone slain, purify yourselves on the third and seventh days, you and your captives.
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And do ye abide without the camp seven days: whosoever hath killed any person, and whosoever hath touched any slain, purify both yourselves and your captives on the third day, and on the seventh day.
20 Also purify every garment, whether of skin or goat's hair, and everything made of wood."
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And purify all your raiment, and all that is made of skins, and all work of goats' hair, and all things made of wood.
21 El'azar the cohen said to the soldiers who had gone to the front, "This is the regulation from the Torah which ADONAI has ordered Moshe.
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And Eleazar the priest said unto the men of war which went to the battle, This is the ordinance of the law which the LORD commanded Moses;
22 Even though gold, silver, brass, iron, tin and lead
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Only the gold, and the silver, the brass, the iron, the tin, and the lead,
23 can all withstand fire, so that you are indeed to purify everything made of these materials by having them pass through fire; nevertheless they must also be purified with the water for purification. Everything that can't withstand fire you are to have go through the water.
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Every thing that may abide the fire, ye shall make it go through the fire, and it shall be clean: nevertheless it shall be purified with the water of separation: and all that abideth not the fire ye shall make go through the water.
24 On the seventh day you are to wash your clothes, and you will be clean; after that you may enter the camp."
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And ye shall wash your clothes on the seventh day, and ye shall be clean, and afterward ye shall come into the camp.
25 ADONAI said to Moshe,
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And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
26 "Take all the booty, both people and animals, you, El'azar the cohen and the leaders of clans in the community;
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Take the sum of the prey that was taken, both of man and of beast, thou, and Eleazar the priest, and the chief fathers of the congregation:
27 and divide the booty into two parts: half for the experienced soldiers who went out to battle, and half for the rest of the community.
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And divide the prey into two parts; between them that took the war upon them, who went out to battle, and between all the congregation:
28 From the portion of the soldiers who went out to battle, levy a tax for ADONAI consisting of one-five-hundredth of the persons, cattle, donkeys and sheep;
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And levy a tribute unto the LORD of the men of war which went out to battle: one soul of five hundred, both of the persons, and of the beeves, and of the asses, and of the sheep:
29 take it from their half and give it to El'azar the cohen as a portion set apart for ADONAI.
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Take it of their half, and give it unto Eleazar the priest, for an heave offering of the LORD.
30 From the half that goes to the people of Isra'el, you are to take one-fiftieth of the persons, and of the cattle, donkeys and sheep, that is, of all the livestock; and give them to the L'vi'im taking care of the tabernacle of ADONAI."
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And of the children of Israel's half, thou shalt take one portion of fifty, of the persons, of the beeves, of the asses, and of the flocks, of all manner of beasts, and give them unto the Levites, which keep the charge of the tabernacle of the LORD.
31 Moshe and El'azar the cohen did as ADONAI had ordered Moshe.
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And Moses and Eleazar the priest did as the LORD commanded Moses.
32 The booty, over and above the portion which the soldiers took, came to 675,000 sheep,
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And the booty, being the rest of the prey which the men of war had caught, was six hundred thousand and seventy thousand and five thousand sheep,
33 72,000 cattle,
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And threescore and twelve thousand beeves,
34 61,000 donkeys,
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And threescore and one thousand asses,
35 and 32,000 persons in all, consisting of the women who had never slept with a man.
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And thirty and two thousand persons in all, of women that had not known man by lying with him.
36 The half which was the portion of the soldiers who went out to fight, numbered 337,500 sheep,
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And the half, which was the portion of them that went out to war, was in number three hundred thousand and seven and thirty thousand and five hundred sheep:
37 of which ADONAI's tribute was 675;
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And the LORD'S tribute of the sheep was six hundred and threescore and fifteen.
38 36,000 cattle, of which ADONAI's tribute was seventy-two;
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And the beeves were thirty and six thousand; of which the LORD'S tribute was threescore and twelve.
39 30,500 donkeys, of which ADONAI's tribute was sixty-one;
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And the asses were thirty thousand and five hundred; of which the LORD'S tribute was threescore and one.
40 and 16,000 persons, of whom ADONAI's tribute was thirty-two persons.
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And the persons were sixteen thousand; of which the LORD'S tribute was thirty and two persons.
41 Moshe gave the tribute set apart for ADONAI to El'azar the cohen, as ADONAI had ordered Moshe.
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And Moses gave the tribute, which was the LORD'S heave offering, unto Eleazar the priest, as the LORD commanded Moses.
42 From the half that went to people of Isra'el, which Moshe separated from that of the men who had gone to fight -
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And of the children of Israel's half, which Moses divided from the men that warred,
43 now the community's half consisted of 337,500 sheep,
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(Now the half that pertained unto the congregation was three hundred thousand and thirty thousand and seven thousand and five hundred sheep,
44 36,000 cattle,
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And thirty and six thousand beeves,
45 30,500 donkeys
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And thirty thousand asses and five hundred,
46 and 16,000 persons -
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And sixteen thousand persons;)
47 from the people of Isra'el's half, Moshe took one-fiftieth of the persons and animals and gave them to the L'vi'im taking care of the tabernacle of ADONAI, as ADONAI had ordered Moshe.
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Even of the children of Israel's half, Moses took one portion of fifty, both of man and of beast, and gave them unto the Levites, which kept the charge of the tabernacle of the LORD; as the LORD commanded Moses.
48 The officers in charge of the thousands who fought, the commanders of thousands and the commanders of hundreds, approached Moshe
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And the officers which were over thousands of the host, the captains of thousands, and captains of hundreds, came near unto Moses:
49 and said to him, "Your servants have counted all the soldiers under our command, and not one of us is missing.
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And they said unto Moses, Thy servants have taken the sum of the men of war which are under our charge, and there lacketh not one man of us.
50 We have brought an offering for ADONAI, what every man has obtained in the way of gold jewelry -armlets, bracelets, signet rings, earrings and belts -to make atonement for ourselves before ADONAI."
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We have therefore brought an oblation for the LORD, what every man hath gotten, of jewels of gold, chains, and bracelets, rings, earrings, and tablets, to make an atonement for our souls before the LORD.
51 Moshe and El'azar the cohen accepted their gold, all the jewelry.
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And Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold of them, even all wrought jewels.
52 All the gold in this gift which the commanders of thousands and the commanders of hundreds set apart for ADONAI weighed 420 pounds.
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And all the gold of the offering that they offered up to the LORD, of the captains of thousands, and of the captains of hundreds, was sixteen thousand seven hundred and fifty shekels.
53 For the soldiers had taken booty, every man for himself.
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(For the men of war had taken spoil, every man for himself.)
54 Moshe and El'azar the cohen took the gold from the commanders of thousands and of hundreds and brought it into the tent of meeting as a reminder for the people of Isra'el before ADONAI.
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And Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold of the captains of thousands and of hundreds, and brought it into the tabernacle of the congregation, for a memorial for the children of Israel before the LORD.
Complete Jewish Bible Copyright 1998 by David H. Stern. Published by Jewish New Testament Publications, Inc. All rights reserved. Used by permission.
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