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¹Adonai spoke to Moses Drawn out, saying,

²“Avenge the children of Israel God prevails for the Midianites Descendants of Strife. Afterward you shall be gathered to your people.”

³Moses Drawn out spoke to the people, saying, “Arm men from among you for the war, that they may go against Midian Strife, to execute Adonai ’s vengeance on Midian Strife.

⁴Of every tribe one thousand, throughout all the tribes of Israel God prevails, you shall send to the war.”

⁵So there were delivered, out of the thousands of Israel God prevails, a thousand of every tribe, twelve thousand armed for war.

⁶Moses Drawn out sent them, one thousand of every tribe, to the war, them and Pinchas Bronze skin the son of Eleazar Help of God the priest, to the war, with the utensils of the sanctuary and the trumpets for the alarm in his hand.

⁷They fought against Midian Strife, as Adonai enjoined Moses Drawn out. They killed every male.

⁸They killed the kings of Midian Strife with the rest of their slain: Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba, the five kings of Midian Strife. They also killed Balaam Not people, Destroyer of people the son of Beor with the sword.

⁹The children of Israel God prevails took the women of Midian Strife captive with their little ones; and all their livestock, all their flocks, and all their goods, they took as plunder.

¹⁰All their cities in the places in which they lived, and all their encampments, they burned with fire.

¹¹They took all the captives, and all the plunder, both of man and of animal.

¹²They brought the captives, and the prey, and the plunder, to Moses Drawn out, and to Eleazar Help of God the priest, and to the congregation of the children of Israel God prevails, to the camp at the plains of Moab From father, which are by the Jordan Descender at Jericho Fragrant, Moon. (RY:2, LY:3)

¹³Moses Drawn out, and Eleazar Help of God the priest, and all the princes of the congregation, went out to meet them outside of the camp.

¹⁴Moses Drawn out was angry with the officers of the army, the captains of thousands and the captains of hundreds, who came from the service of the war.

¹⁵Moses Drawn out said to them, “Have you saved all the women alive?

¹⁶Behold, these caused the children of Israel God prevails, through the counsel of Balaam Not people, Destroyer of people, to commit trespass against Adonai in the matter of Peor, and so the plague was among the congregation of Adonai .

¹⁷Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who has known man by lying with him.

¹⁸But all the girls, who have not known man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.

¹⁹“Encamp outside of the camp seven days. Whoever has killed any person, and whoever has touched any slain, purify yourselves on the third day and on the seventh day, you and your captives.

²⁰As to every garment, and all that is made of skin, and all work of goats’ hair, and all things made of wood, you shall purify yourselves.”

²¹Eleazar Help of God the priest said to the men of war who went to the battle, “This is the statute of the Torah ·Teaching· which Adonai has enjoined Moses Drawn out:

²²however the gold, and the silver, the bronze, the iron, the tin, and the lead,

²³everything that may withstand the fire, you shall make to go through the fire, and it shall be clean; nevertheless it shall be purified with the water for impurity. All that does not withstand the fire you shall make to go through the water.

²⁴You shall wash your clothes on the seventh day, and you shall be clean. Afterward you shall come into the camp.” (LY:4)

²⁵Adonai spoke to Moses Drawn out, saying,

²⁶“Count the plunder that was taken, both of man and of animal, you, and Eleazar Help of God the priest, and the heads of the fathers’ households of the congregation;

²⁷and divide the plunder into two parts: between the men skilled in war, who went out to battle, and all the congregation.

²⁸Levy a tribute to Adonai of the men of war who went out to battle: one soul of five hundred; of the persons, of the cattle, of the donkeys, and of the flocks.

²⁹Take it from their half, and give it to Eleazar Help of God the priest, for Adonai ’s wave offering.

³⁰Of the children of Israel God prevails’s half, you shall take one drawn out of every fifty, of the persons, of the cattle, of the donkeys, and of the flocks, of all the livestock, and give them to the Levites Descendants of United with, who perform the duty of Adonai ’s tabernacle.”

³¹Moses Drawn out and Eleazar Help of God the priest did as Adonai enjoined Moses Drawn out.

³²Now the plunder, over and above the booty which the men of war took, was six hundred seventy-five thousand sheep,

³³and seventy-two thousand head of cattle,

³⁴and sixty-one thousand donkeys,

³⁵and thirty-two thousand persons in all, of the women who had not known man by lying with him.

³⁶The half, which was the portion of those who went out to war, was in number three hundred thirty-seven thousand five hundred sheep:

³⁷and Adonai ’s tribute of the sheep was six hundred seventy-five.

³⁸The cattle were thirty-six thousand; of which Adonai ’s tribute was seventy-two.

³⁹The donkeys were thirty thousand five hundred; of which Adonai ’s tribute was sixty-one.

⁴⁰The persons were sixteen thousand; of whom Adonai ’s tribute was thirty-two persons.

⁴¹Moses Drawn out gave the tribute, which was Adonai ’s wave offering, to Eleazar Help of God the priest, as Adonai enjoined Moses Drawn out. (LY:5)

⁴²Of the children of Israel God prevails’s half, which Moses Drawn out divided off from the men who fought

⁴³(now the congregation’s half was three hundred thirty-seven thousand five hundred sheep,

⁴⁴and thirty-six thousand head of cattle,

⁴⁵and thirty thousand five hundred donkeys,

⁴⁶and sixteen thousand persons),

⁴⁷even of the children of Israel God prevails’s half, Moses Drawn out took one drawn out of every fifty, both of man and of animal, and gave them to the Levites Descendants of United with, who performed the duty of Adonai ’s tabernacle; as Adonai enjoined Moses Drawn out.

⁴⁸The officers who were over the thousands of the army, the captains of thousands, and the captains of hundreds, came near to Moses Drawn out.

⁴⁹They said to Moses Drawn out, “Your servants have taken the sum of the men of war who are under our charge, and there lacks not one man of us.

⁵⁰We have brought Adonai ’s offering, what every man has gotten, of jewels of gold, armlets, and bracelets, signet rings, earrings, and necklaces, to make atonement for our souls before Adonai .”

⁵¹Moses Drawn out and Eleazar Help of God the priest took their gold, even all worked jewels.

⁵²All the gold of the wave offering that they offered up to Adonai , of the captains of thousands, and of the captains of hundreds, was sixteen thousand seven hundred fifty shekels 418.75 lb; 189.95 kg.

⁵³The men of war had taken booty, every man for himself.

⁵⁴Moses Drawn out and Eleazar Help of God the priest took the gold of the captains of thousands and of hundreds, and brought it into the Tent of Meeting, for a memorial for the children of Israel God prevails before Adonai .