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Numbers 31
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- And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
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- Avenge the children of Israel of the Midianites:
afterward shalt thou be gathered unto thy people.
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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.
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- Of every tribe a thousand, throughout all the tribes of
Israel, shall ye send to the 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.
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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.
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- And they warred against the Midianites, as the LORD
commanded Moses; and they slew all the males.
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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.
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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.
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- And they burnt all their cities wherein they dwelt, and
all their goodly castles, with fire.
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- And they took all the spoil, and all the prey, both of
men and of beasts.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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- And Moses said unto them, Have ye saved all the women
alive?
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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.
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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.
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- But all the women children, that have not known a man by
lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.
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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.
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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.
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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;
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- Only the gold, and the silver, the brass, the iron, the
tin, and the lead,
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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.
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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.
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- And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
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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:
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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:
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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:
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- Take it of their half, and give it unto Eleazar the
priest, for an heave offering of the LORD.
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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.
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- And Moses and Eleazar the priest did as the LORD
commanded Moses.
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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,
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- And threescore and twelve thousand beeves,
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- And threescore and one thousand asses,
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- And thirty and two thousand persons in all, of women
that had not known man by lying with him.
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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:
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- And the LORD'S tribute of the sheep was six hundred and
threescore and fifteen.
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- And the beeves were thirty and six thousand; of which
the LORD'S tribute was threescore and twelve.
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- And the asses were thirty thousand and five hundred; of
which the LORD'S tribute was threescore and one.
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- And the persons were sixteen thousand; of which the
LORD'S tribute was thirty and two persons.
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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.
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- And of the children of Israel's half, which Moses
divided from the men that warred,
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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,
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- And thirty and six thousand beeves,
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- And thirty thousand asses and five hundred,
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- And sixteen thousand persons;)
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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.
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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:
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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.
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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.
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- And Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold of them,
even all wrought jewels.
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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.
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- (For the men of war had taken spoil, every man for
himself.)
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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.
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