Numbers Chapter 31
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of Zerah, the family of the Zerahites; of Shaul, the family of the Shaulites.
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These are the families of the Simeonites, twenty and two thousand and two hundred.
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The sons of Gad after their families: of Zephon, the family of the Zephonites; of Haggi, the family of the Haggites; of Shuni, the family of the Shunites;
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of Ozni, the family of the Oznites; of Eri, the family of the Erites;
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of Arod, the family of the Arodites; of Areli, the family of the Arelites.
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These are the families of the sons of Gad according to those that were numbered of them, forty thousand and five hundred.
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The sons of Judah: Er and Onan; and Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan.
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And the sons of Judah after their families were: of Shelah, the family of the Shelanites; of Perez, the family of the Perezites; of Zerah, the family of the Zerahites.
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And the sons of Perez were: of Hezron, the family of the Hezronites; of Hamul, the family of the Hamulites.
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These are the families of Judah according to those that were numbered of them, threescore and sixteen thousand and five hundred.
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The sons of Issachar after their families:
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of Tola, the family of the Tolaites; of Puvah, the family of the Punites;
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of Jashub, the family of the Jashubites; of Shimron, the family of the Shimronites.
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These are the families of Issachar according to those that were numbered of them, threescore and four thousand and three hundred.
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The sons of Zebulun after their families: of Sered, the family of the Seredites; of Elon, the family of the Elonites; of Jahleel, the family of the Jahleelites.
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These are the families of the Zebulunites according to those that were numbered of them, threescore thousand and five hundred.
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The sons of Joseph after their families: Manasseh and Ephraim.
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The sons of Manasseh: of Machir, the family of the Machirites; and Machir begat Gilead: of Gilead, the family of the Gileadites.
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These are the sons of Gilead:
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of Iezer, the family of the Iezerites; of Helek, the family of the Helekites;
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and
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of Asriel, the family of the Asrielites; and
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of Shechem, the family of the Shechemites;
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and
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of Shemida, the family of the Shemidaites; and
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of Hepher, the family of the Hepherites.
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And Zelophehad the son of Hepher had no sons, but daughters: and the names of the daughters of Zelophehad were Mahlah, and Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.
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These are the families of Manasseh; and they that were numbered of them were fifty and two thousand and seven hundred.
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These are the sons of Ephraim after their families: of Shuthelah, the family of the Shuthelahites; of Becher, the family of the Becherites; of Tahan, the family of the Tahanites.
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And these are the sons of Shuthelah: of Eran, the family of the Eranites.
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These are the families of the sons of Ephraim according to those that were numbered of them, thirty and two thousand and five hundred. These are the sons of Joseph after their families.
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The sons of Benjamin after their families: of Bela, the family of the Belaites; of Ashbel, the family of the Ashbelites; of Ahiram, the family of the Ahiramites;
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of Shephupham, the family of the Shuphamites; of Hupham, the family of the Huphamites.
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And the sons of Bela were Ard and Naaman:
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of Ard, the family of the Ardites; of Naaman, the family of the Naamites.
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These are the sons of Benjamin after their families; and they that were numbered of them were forty and five thousand and six hundred.
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These are the sons of Dan after their families: of Shuham, the family of the Shuhamites. These are the families of Dan after their families.
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All the families of the Shuhamites, according to those that were numbered of them, were threescore and four thousand and four hundred.
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The sons of Asher after their families: of Imnah, the family of the Imnites; of Ishvi, the family of the Ishvites; of Beriah, the family of the Berites.
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Of the sons of Beriah: of Heber, the family of the Heberites; of Malchiel, the family of the Malchielites.
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And the name of the daughter of Asher was Serah.
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These are the families of the sons of Asher according to those that were numbered of them, fifty and three thousand and four hundred.
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The sons of Naphtali after their families: of Jahzeel, the family of the Jahzeelites; of Guni, the family of the Gunites;
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of Jezer, the family of the Jezerites; of Shillem, the family of the Shillemites.
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These are the families of Naphtali according to their families; and they that were numbered of them were forty and five thousand and four hundred.
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These are they that were numbered of the children of Israel, six hundred thousand and a thousand seven hundred and thirty.
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And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,
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Unto these the land shall be divided for an inheritance according to the number of names.
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To the more thou shalt give the more inheritance, and to the fewer thou shalt give the less inheritance: to every one according to those that were numbered of him shall his inheritance be given.
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Notwithstanding, the land shall be divided by lot: according to the names of the tribes of their fathers they shall inherit.
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According to the lot shall their inheritance be divided between the more and the fewer.
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And these are they that were numbered of the Levites after their families: of Gershon, the family of the Gershonites; of Kohath, the family of the Kohathites; of Merari, the family of the Merarites.
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These are the families of Levi: the family of the Libnites, the family of the Hebronites, the family of the Mahlites, the family of the Mushites, the family of the Korahites. And Kohath begat Amram.
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And the name of Amram’s wife was Jochebed, the daughter of Levi, who was born to Levi in Egypt: and she bare unto Amram Aaron and Moses, and Miriam their sister.
darby (darby) - eBible.org Darby 1890 plaintext
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And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,
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Avenge the children of Israel upon the Midianites; afterwards shalt thou be gathered unto thy peoples.
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And Moses spoke to the people, saying, Arm from amongst you men for military service, that they go against Midian to execute Jehovah's vengeance upon Midian.
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Of every tribe a thousand, of all the tribes of Israel, shall ye send to the war.
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And there were levied out of the thousands of Israel, a thousand by tribe, twelve thousand armed for war.
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And Moses sent them to the war, a thousand by the tribe, them and Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, to the war, and the holy instruments, even the alarm-trumpets in his hand.
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And they warred against Midian, as Jehovah had commanded Moses, and slew all the males.
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And they slew the kings of Midian, besides the others slain, Evi, and Rekem, and Zur, and Hur, and Reba, five kings of Midian; and Balaam the son of Beor they slew with the sword.
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And the children of Israel took the women of Midian captives, and their little ones, and took for a spoil all their cattle and all their flocks and all their goods;
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and all their cities in their settlements and all their encampments they burned with fire.
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And they took all the booty, and all the prey, of man and of cattle;
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and they brought to Moses and Eleazar the priest, and to the assembly of the children of Israel, the captives and the prey and the booty, to the camp in the plains of Moab, which are by the Jordan of Jericho.
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And Moses and Eleazar the priest and all the princes of the assembly went forth to meet them outside the camp.
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And Moses was wroth with the officers of the army, with the captains of thousands, and captains of hundreds, who came from the service of the war;
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and Moses said to them, Have ye saved all the women alive?
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Lo, these, through the counsel of Balaam, caused the children of Israel to commit sin against Jehovah in the matter of Peor, and there was a plague on the assembly of Jehovah.
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And now slay every male among the little ones, and slay every woman that hath known man by lying with him,
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but all the children among the women that have not known lying with a man, keep alive for yourselves.
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And encamp outside the camp seven days; whoever hath killed a person, and whoever hath touched any slain; ye shall purify yourselves on the third day, and on the seventh day, you and your captives.
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And every garment, and every vessel of skin, and all work of goat's hair, and every utensil of wood shall ye purify.
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And Eleazar the priest said to the men of war that had gone to the battle, This is the statute of the law which Jehovah hath commanded Moses.
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Only the gold, and the silver, the copper, the iron, the tin, and the lead,
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everything that passeth through the fire, ye shall make it go through the fire, and it shall be clean; only it shall be purified with the water of separation; and everything that cannot pass through the fire ye shall make go through the water.
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And ye shall wash your garments on the seventh day, and ye shall be clean; and afterwards ye may come into the camp.
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And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,
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Take the sum of the prey that was taken, of man and of cattle, thou, and Eleazar the priest, and the chief fathers of the assembly;
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and divide the prey into halves, between them that conducted the war, who went out to the battle, and the whole assembly.
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And thou shalt levy a tribute for Jehovah of the men of war who went out to the army, one soul of five hundred of the persons, and of the oxen, and of the asses, and of the small cattle.
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Of their half shall ye take it, and give it unto Eleazar the priest, for a heave-offering of Jehovah.
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And of the children of Israel's half, thou shalt take one portion of fifty, of the persons, of the oxen, of the asses, and of the small cattle, of every [kind of] beasts, and thou shalt give them unto the Levites, who keep the charge of the tabernacle of Jehovah.
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And Moses and Eleazar the priest did as Jehovah had commanded Moses.
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And the prey, the rest of the spoil, which the men of war had taken, was six hundred and seventy-five thousand sheep,
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and seventy-two thousand oxen,
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and sixty-one thousand asses,
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and of human persons, of the women that had not known lying with a man, all the persons were thirty-two thousand.
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And the half, the portion of them that had gone out to the war, was in number three hundred and thirty-seven thousand five hundred sheep,
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and the tribute for Jehovah of the sheep was six hundred and seventy-five;
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and the oxen were thirty-six thousand, and the tribute thereof for Jehovah, seventy-two;
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and the asses were thirty thousand five hundred, and the tribute thereof for Jehovah, sixty-one;
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and the human persons were sixteen thousand, of whom the tribute for Jehovah was thirty-two persons.
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And Moses gave the tribute of Jehovah's heave-offering to Eleazar the priest, as Jehovah had commanded Moses.
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And of the children of Israel's half, which Moses had divided, [taking it] from the men that served in the war,
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(now the half belonging to the assembly was of the sheep, three hundred and thirty-seven thousand five hundred,
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and thirty-six thousand oxen,
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and thirty thousand five hundred asses,
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and sixteen thousand human persons,)
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...of the children of Israel's half, Moses took one portion of fifty, of man and of cattle, and gave them to the Levites who kept the charge of the tabernacle of Jehovah; as Jehovah had commanded Moses.
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And the officers who were over the thousands of the host, the captains of thousands, and captains of hundreds, came near to Moses,
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and they said to Moses, Thy servants have taken the sum of the men of war who were under our hand, and there is not one man of us lacking.
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So we present the offering of Jehovah, that which each one hath found, jewels of gold, chains, and bracelets, rings, earrings, and necklaces, to make atonement for our souls before Jehovah.
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And Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold of them, all manner of wrought jewels.
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And all the gold of the heave-offering that they offered to Jehovah was sixteen thousand seven hundred and fifty shekels, from the captains of thousands and the captains of hundreds.
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(The men of war had taken spoil each one 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 tent of meeting, as a memorial for the children of Israel before Jehovah.
lxxbrent (lxxbrent) - Septuagint (Brenton 1851) eBible USFM
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And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
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Avenge the wrongs of the children of Israel on the Madianites, and afterwards thou shalt be added to thy people.
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And Moses spoke to the people, saying, Arm some of you, and set yourselves in array before the Lord against Madian, to inflict vengeance on Madian from the Lord.
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Send a thousand of each tribe from all the tribes of the children of Israel to set themselves in array.
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And they numbered of the thousands of Israel a thousand of [each] tribe, twelve thousands; [these were] armed for war.
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And Moses sent them away a thousand of every tribe with their forces, and Phinees the son of Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest: and the holy instruments, and the signal trumpets [were] in their hands.
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And they set themselves in array against Madian, as the Lord commanded Moses; and they slew every male.
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And they slew the kings of Madian together with their slain [subjects]; even Evi and Rocon, and Sur, and Ur, and Roboc, five kings of Madian; and they slew with the sword Balaam the son of Beor with their [other] slain.
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And they made a prey of the women of Madian, and their store, and their cattle, and all their possessions: and they spoiled their forces.
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And they burnt with fire all their cities in the places of their habitation, and they burnt their villages with fire.
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And they took all their plunder, and all their spoils, both man and beast.
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And they brought to Moses and to Eleazar the priest, and to all the children of Israel, the captives, and the spoils, and the plunder, to the camp to Araboth Moab, which is at Jordan by Jericho.
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And Moses and Eleazar the priest and all the rulers of the synagogue went forth out of the camp to meet them.
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And Moses was angry with the captains of the host, the heads of thousands and the heads of hundreds who came from the battle-array.
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And Moses said to them, Why have ye saved every female alive?
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For they were [the occasion] to the children of Israel by the word of Balaam of their revolting and despising the word of the Lord, because of Phogor; and there was a plague in the congregation of the Lord.
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Now then slay every male in all the spoil, slay every woman, who has known the lying with man.
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And as for all the captivity of women, who have not known the lying with man, save ye them alive.
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And ye shall encamp outside the [great] camp seven days; every one who has slain and who touches a dead body, shall be purified on the third day, and ye and your captivity [shall purify yourselves] on the seventh day.
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And ye shall purify every garment and every leathern utensil, and all furniture of goat skin, and every wooden vessel.
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And Eleazar the priest said to the men of the host that came from the battle-array, This [is] the ordinance of the law which the Lord has commanded Moses.
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Beside the gold, and the silver, and the brass, and the iron, and lead, and tin,
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every thing that shall pass through the fire shall so be clean, nevertheless it shall be purified with the water of sanctification; and whatsoever will not pass through the fire shall pass through water.
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And on the seventh day ye shall wash your garments, and be clean; and afterwards ye shall come into the camp.
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And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
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Take the sum of the spoils of the captivity both of man and beast, thou and Eleazar the priest, and the heads of the families of the congregation.
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And ye shall divide the spoils between the warriors that went out to battle, and the whole congregation.
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And ye shall take a tribute for the Lord from the warriors that went out to battle; one soul out of five hundred, from the men, and from the cattle, even from the oxen, and from the sheep, and from the asses; and ye shall take from their half.
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And thou shalt give [them] to Eleazar the priest [as] the first-fruits of the Lord.
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And from the half belonging to the children of Israel thou shalt take one in fifty from the men, and from the oxen, and from the sheep, and from the asses, and from all the cattle; and thou shalt give them to the Levites that keep the charges in 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 that which remained of the spoil which the warriors took, was—of the sheep, six hundred and seventy-five thousand:
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and oxen, seventy-two thousand:
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and asses, sixty-one thousand.
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And persons of women who had not known lying with man, all the souls, thirty-two thousand.
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And the half, [even] the portion of them that went out to war, from the number of the sheep, was three hundred and thirty-seven thousand and five hundred.
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And the tribute to the Lord from the sheep was six hundred and seventy-five.
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And the oxen, six and thirty thousand, and the tribute to the Lord, seventy-two.
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And asses, thirty thousand and five hundred, and the tribute to the Lord, sixty-one:
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and the persons, sixteen thousand, and the tribute of them to the Lord, thirty-two souls.
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And Moses gave the tribute to the Lord, the heave-offering of God, to Eleazar the priest, as the Lord commanded Moses;
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from the half belonging to the children of Israel, whom Moses separated from the men of war.
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And the half [taken] from the sheep, belonging to the congregation, was three hundred and thirty-seven thousand and five hundred.
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And the oxen, thirty-six thousand;
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asses, thirty thousand and five hundred;
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and persons, sixteen thousand.
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And Moses took of the half belonging to the children of Israel the fiftieth part, of men and of cattle, and he gave them to the Levites who keep the charges of the tabernacle of the Lord, as the Lord commanded Moses.
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And all those who were appointed to be officers of thousands of the host, captains of thousands and captains of hundreds, approached Moses, and said to Moses,
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Thy servants have taken the sum of the men of war with us, and not one is missing.
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And we have brought our gift to the Lord, [every] man who has found an article of gold, whether an armlet, or a chain, or a ring, or a bracelet, or a clasp for hair, to make atonement for us before the Lord.
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And Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold from them, even every wrought article.
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And all the wrought gold, even the offering that they offered to the Lord, was sixteen thousand and seven hundred and fifty shekels from the captains of thousands and the captains of hundreds.
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For the men of war took plunder every one for himself.
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And Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold from the captains of thousands and captains of hundreds, and brought the vessels into the tabernacle of witness, a memorial of the children of Israel before the Lord.
vul1914 (vul1914) - Vulgate 1914 UTF-8 (sacredbible.org)
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Locutusque est Dominus ad Moysen, dicens:
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Ulciscere prius filios Israel de Madianitis, et sic colligeris ad populum tuum.
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Statimque Moyses, Armate, inquit, ex vobis viros ad pugnam, qui possint ultionem Domini expetere de Madianitis.
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mille viri de singulis tribubus eligantur ex Israel qui mittantur ad bellum.
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Dederuntque millenos de singulis tribubus, id est, duodecim millia expeditorum ad pugnam:
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quos misit Moyses cum Phinees filio Eleazari sacerdotis, vasa quoque sancta, et tubas ad clangendum tradidit ei.
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Cumque pugnassent contra Madianitas atque vicissent, omnes mares occiderunt,
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et reges eorum Evi, et Recem, et Sur, et Hur, et Rebe, quinque principes gentis: Balaam quoque filium Beor interfecerunt gladio.
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Ceperuntque mulieres eorum, et parvulos, omniaque pecora, et cunctam supellectilem: quidquid habere potuerant depopulati sunt:
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tam urbes quam viculos et castella flamma consumpsit.
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Et tulerunt prædam, et universa quæ ceperant tam ex hominibus quam ex iumentis,
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et adduxerunt ad Moysen, et Eleazarum sacerdotem, et ad omnem multitudinem filiorum Israel. reliqua autem utensilia portaverunt ad castra in campestribus Moab iuxta Iordanem contra Iericho.
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Egressi sunt autem Moyses, et Eleazar sacerdos, et omnes principes synagogæ in occursum eorum extra castra.
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Iratusque Moyses principibus exercitus, tribunis, et centurionibus qui venerant de bello,
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ait: Cur feminas reservastis?
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Nonne istæ sunt, quæ deceperunt filios Israel ad suggestionem Balaam, et prævaricari vos fecerunt in Domino super peccato Phogor, unde et percussus est populus?
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Ergo cunctos interficite quidquid est generis masculinis, etiam in parvulis: et mulieres, quæ noverunt viros in coitu, iugulate:
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puellas autem et omnes feminas virgines reservate vobis:
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et manete extra castra septem diebus. Qui occiderit hominem, vel occisum tetigerit, lustrabitur die tertio et septimo.
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Et de omni præda, sive vestimentum fuerit, sive vas, et aliquid in utensilia præparatum, de caprarum pellibus, et pilis, et ligno expiabitur.
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Eleazar quoque sacerdos ad viros exercitus, qui pugnaverunt, sic locutus est: Hoc est præceptum legis, quod mandavit Dominus Moysi:
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Aurum, et argentum, et æs, et ferrum, et plumbum, et stannum,
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et omne, quod potest transire per flammas, igne purgabitur. quidquid autem ignem non potest sustinere, aqua expiationis sanctificabitur:
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et lavabitis vestimenta vestra die septimo, et purificati postea castra intrabitis.
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Dixit quoque Dominus ad Moysen:
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Tollite summam eorum, quæ capta sunt ab homine usque ad pecus, tu et Eleazar sacerdos et principes vulgi:
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dividesque ex æquo prædam inter eos, qui pugnaverunt egressique sunt ad bellum, et inter omnem reliquam multitudinem.
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et separabis partem Domino ab his, qui pugnaverunt et fuerunt in bello, unam animam de quingentis tam ex hominibus quam ex bobus et asinis et ovibus,
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et dabis eam Eleazaro sacerdoti, quia primitiæ Domini sunt.
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Ex media quoque parte filiorum Israel accipies quinquagesimum caput hominum, et boum, et asinorum, et ovium, cunctorum animantium, et dabis ea Levitis, qui excubant in custodiis tabernaculi Domini.
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Feceruntque Moyses, et Eleazar, sicut præceperat Dominus.
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Fuit autem præda, quam exercitus ceperat, ovium sexcenta septuaginta quinque millia,
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boum septuaginta duo millia,
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asinorum sexaginta millia et mille:
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animæ hominum sexus feminei, quæ non cognoverant viros, triginta duo millia.
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Dataque est media pars his, qui in prælio fuerant, ovium trecenta triginta septem millia quingentæ:
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e quibus in partem Domini supputatæ sunt oves sexcentæ septuaginta quinque.
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Et de bobus triginta sex millibus, boves septuaginta et duo:
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de asinis triginta millibus quingentis, asini sexaginta unus:
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de animabus hominum sedecim millibus, cesserunt in partem Domini triginta duæ animæ.
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Tradiditque Moyses numerum primitiarum Domini Eleazaro sacerdoti, sicut fuerat ei imperatum,
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ex media parte filiorum Israel, quam separaverat his, qui in prælio fuerant.
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De media vero parte, quæ contigerat reliquæ multitudini, id est, de ovibus trecentis triginta septem millibus quingentis,
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et de bobus triginta sex millibus,
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et de asinis triginta millibus quingentis,
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et de hominibus sedecim millibus,
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tulit Moyses quinquagesimum caput, et dedit Levitis, qui excubabant in tabernaculo Domini, sicut præceperat Dominus.
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Cumque accessissent principes exercitus ad Moysen, et tribuni, centurionesque dixerunt:
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Nos servi tui recensuimus numerum pugnatorum, quos habuimus sub manu nostra: et ne unus quidem defuit.
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Ob hanc causam offerimus in donariis Domini singuli quod in præda auri potuimus invenire, periscelides et armillas, annulos et dextralia, ac murænulas, ut depreceris pro nobis Dominum.
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Susceperuntque Moyses, et Eleazar sacerdos omne aurum in diversis speciebus,
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pondo sedecim millia, septingentos quinquaginta siclos a tribunis et centurionibus.
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Unusquisque enim quod in præda rapuerat, suum erat.
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Et susceptum intulerunt in tabernaculum testimonii, in monimentum filiorum Israel coram Domino.
web (web) - WorldEnglish.Bible — CC0 modern update of ASV
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The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
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“Avenge the children of Israel on the Midianites. Afterward you shall be gathered to your people.”
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Moses spoke to the people, saying, “Arm men from among you for war, that they may go against Midian, to execute the LORD’s vengeance on Midian.
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You shall send one thousand out of every tribe, throughout all the tribes of Israel, to the war.”
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So there were delivered, out of the thousands of Israel, a thousand from every tribe, twelve thousand armed for war.
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Moses sent them, one thousand of every tribe, to the war with Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, to the war, with the vessels of the sanctuary and the trumpets for the alarm in his hand.
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They fought against Midian, as the LORD commanded Moses. They killed every male.
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They killed the kings of Midian with the rest of their slain: Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba, the five kings of Midian. They also killed Balaam the son of Beor with the sword.
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The children of Israel took the women of Midian captive with their little ones; and all their livestock, all their flocks, and all their goods, they took as plunder.
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All their cities in the places in which they lived, and all their encampments, they burned with fire.
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They took all the captives, and all the plunder, both of man and of animal.
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They brought the captives with the prey and the plunder, to Moses, and to Eleazar the priest, and to the congregation of the children of Israel, to the camp at the plains of Moab, which are by the Jordan at Jericho.
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Moses and Eleazar the priest, with all the princes of the congregation, went out to meet them outside of the camp.
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Moses 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.
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Moses said to them, “Have you 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 so the plague was among the congregation of the LORD.
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Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who has known man by lying with him.
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But all the girls, who have not known man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.
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“Encamp outside of the camp for 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.
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You shall purify every garment, and all that is made of skin, and all work of goats’ hair, and all things made of wood.”
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Eleazar the priest said to the men of war who went to the battle, “This is the statute of the law which the LORD has commanded Moses.
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However the gold, and the silver, the bronze, the iron, the tin, and the lead,
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everything 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 doesn’t withstand the fire you shall make to go through the water.
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You shall wash your clothes on the seventh day, and you shall be clean. Afterward you shall come into the camp.”
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The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
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“Count the plunder that was taken, both of man and of animal, you, and Eleazar the priest, and the heads of the fathers’ households of the congregation;
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and divide the plunder into two parts: between the men skilled in war, who went out to battle, and all the congregation.
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Levy a tribute to the LORD 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.
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Take it from their half, and give it to Eleazar the priest, for the LORD’s wave offering.
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Of the children of Israel’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, who perform the duty of the LORD’s tabernacle.”
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Moses and Eleazar the priest did as the LORD commanded Moses.
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Now the plunder, over and above the booty which the men of war took, was six hundred seventy-five thousand sheep,
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seventy-two thousand head of cattle,
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sixty-one thousand donkeys,
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and thirty-two thousand persons in all, of the women who had not known man by lying with him.
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The half, which was the portion of those who went out to war, was in number three hundred thirty-seven thousand five hundred sheep;
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and the LORD’s tribute of the sheep was six hundred seventy-five.
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The cattle were thirty-six thousand, of which the LORD’s tribute was seventy-two.
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The donkeys were thirty thousand five hundred, of which the LORD’s tribute was sixty-one.
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The persons were sixteen thousand, of whom the LORD’s tribute was thirty-two persons.
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Moses gave the tribute, which was the LORD’s wave offering, to Eleazar the priest, as the LORD commanded Moses.
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Of the children of Israel’s half, which Moses divided off from the men who fought
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(now the congregation’s half was three hundred thirty-seven thousand five hundred sheep,
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thirty-six thousand head of cattle,
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thirty thousand five hundred donkeys,
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and sixteen thousand persons),
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even of the children of Israel’s half, Moses took one drawn out of every fifty, both of man and of animal, and gave them to the Levites, who performed the duty of the LORD’s tabernacle, as the LORD commanded Moses.
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The officers who were over the thousands of the army, the captains of thousands, and the captains of hundreds, came near to Moses.
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They said to Moses, “Your servants have taken the sum of the men of war who are under our command, and there lacks not one man of us.
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We have brought the LORD’s offering, what every man found: gold ornaments, armlets, bracelets, signet rings, earrings, and necklaces, to make atonement for our souls before the LORD.”
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Moses and Eleazar the priest took their gold, even all worked jewels.
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All the gold of the wave offering that they offered up to the LORD, of the captains of thousands, and of the captains of hundreds, was sixteen thousand seven hundred fifty shekels.
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The men of war had taken booty, every man for himself.
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Moses and Eleazar 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 before the LORD.
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And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying,
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`Execute the vengeance of the sons of Israel against the Midianites--afterwards thou art gathered unto thy people.'
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And Moses speaketh unto the people, saying, `Be ye armed some of you for the host, and they are against Midian, to put the vengeance of Jehovah on Midian;
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a thousand for a tribe--a thousand for a tribe, to all the tribes of Israel--ye do send to the host.'
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And there are given out of the thousands of Israel a thousand for a tribe, twelve thousand armed ones of the host;
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and Moses sendeth them, a thousand for a tribe, to the host, them and Phinehas son of Eleazar the priest, to the host; and the holy vessels, and the trumpets of the shouting, in his hand.
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And they war against Midian, as Jehovah hath commanded Moses, and slay every male;
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and the kings of Midian they have slain, besides their pierced ones, Evi, and Rekem, and Zur, and Hur, and Reba, five kings of Midian; and Balaam son of Beor, they have slain with the sword.
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And the sons of Israel take captive the women of Midian, and their infants; and all their cattle, and all their substance, and all their wealth they have plundered;
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and all their cities, with their habitations, and all their towers, they have burnt with fire.
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And they take all the spoil, and all the prey, among man and among beast;
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and they bring in, unto Moses, and unto Eleazar the priest, and unto the company of the sons of Israel, the captives, and the prey, and the spoil, unto the camp, unto the plains of Moab, which <FI>are<Fi> by Jordan, <FI>near<Fi> Jericho.
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And Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and all the princes of the company, go out to meet them, unto the outside of the camp,
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and Moses is wroth against the inspectors of the force, chiefs of the thousands, and chiefs of the hundreds, who are coming in from the host of the battle.
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And Moses saith unto them, `Have ye kept alive every female?
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lo, they--they have been to the sons of Israel, through the word of Balaam, to cause a trespass against Jehovah in the matter of Peor, and the plague is in the company of Jehovah.
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`And now, slay ye every male among the infants, yea, every woman known of man by the lying of a male ye have slain;
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and all the infants among the women, who have not known the lying of a male, ye have kept alive for yourselves.
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`And ye, encamp ye at the outside of the camp seven days--any who hath slain a person, and any who hath come against a pierced one, ye cleanse yourselves on the third day, and on the seventh day--ye and your captives;
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and every garment, and every skin vessel, and every work of goats' <FI>hair<Fi> , and every wooden vessel, ye yourselves cleanse.'
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And Eleazar the priest saith unto the men of the host who go in to battle, `This <FI>is<Fi> the statute of the law which Jehovah hath 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 which may go into fire, ye cause to pass over through fire, and it hath been clean; only, with the water of separation it is cleansed, and all that may not go into fire, ye cause to pass over through water;
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and ye have washed your garments on the seventh day, and have been clean, and afterwards ye come in unto the camp.'
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And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying,
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`Take up the sum of the prey of the captives, among man and among beast, thou, and Eleazar the priest, and the heads of the fathers of the company;
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and thou hast halved the prey between those handling the battle who go out to the host and all the company;
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and thou hast raised a tribute to Jehovah from the men of war, who go out to the host, one body out of five hundred, of man, and of the herd, and of the asses, and of the flock;
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from their half ye do take, and thou hast given to Eleazar the priest--the heave-offering of Jehovah.
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`And from the sons of Israel's half thou dost take one possession out of fifty, of man, of the herd, of the asses, and of the flock, of all the cattle, and thou hast given them to the Levites keeping the charge of the tabernacle of Jehovah.'
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And Moses doth--Eleazar the priest also--as Jehovah hath commanded Moses.
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And the prey, the residue of the spoil which the people of the host have spoiled, is of the flock six hundred thousand, and seventy thousand, and five thousand;
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and of the herd two and seventy thousand;
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and of asses one and sixty thousand;
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and of human beings--of the women who have not known the lying of a male--all the persons <FI>are<Fi> two and thirty thousand.
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And the half--the portion of those who go out into the host--the number of the flock is three hundred thousand, and thirty thousand, and seven thousand and five hundred.
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And the tribute to Jehovah of the sheep is six hundred five and seventy;
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and the herd <FI>is<Fi> six and thirty thousand, and their tribute to Jehovah <FI>is<Fi> two and seventy;
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and the asses <FI>are<Fi> thirty thousand and five hundred, and their tribute to Jehovah <FI>is<Fi> one and sixty;
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and the human beings <FI>are<Fi> sixteen thousand, and their tribute to Jehovah <FI>is<Fi> two and thirty persons.
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And Moses giveth the tribute--Jehovah's heave-offering--to Eleazar the priest, as Jehovah hath commanded Moses.
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And of the sons of Israel's half, which Moses halved from the men who war--
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and the company's half is, of the flock three hundred thousand, and thirty thousand, seven thousand and five hundred;
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and of the herd six and thirty thousand;
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and of asses thirty thousand and five hundred;
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and of human beings sixteen thousand--
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Moses taketh from the sons of Israel's half the one possession from the fifty, of man and of beast, and giveth them to the Levites keeping the charge of the tabernacle of Jehovah, as Jehovah hath commanded Moses.
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And the inspectors whom the thousands of the host hath, (heads of the thousands and heads of the hundreds), draw near unto Moses,
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and they say unto Moses, `Thy servants have taken up the sum of the men of war who <FI>are<Fi> with us, and not a man of us hath been missed;
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and we bring near Jehovah's offering, each that which he hath found, vessels of gold--chain, and bracelet, seal-ring, <FI>ear<Fi> -ring, and bead--to make atonement for ourselves before Jehovah.'
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And Moses receiveth--Eleazar the priest also--the gold from them, every made vessel,
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and all the gold of the heave-offering which they have lifted up to Jehovah is sixteen thousand seven hundred and fifty shekels, from heads of the thousands, and from heads of the hundreds;
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(the men of the host have spoiled each for himself);
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and Moses taketh--Eleazar the priest also--the gold from the heads of the thousands and of the hundreds, and they bring it in unto the tent of meeting--a memorial for the sons of Israel before Jehovah.
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