Numbers Chapter 31
31:1 | And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, |
31:2 | Avenge the children of ![]() |
31:3 | 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. |
31:4 | Of every tribe a thousand, throughout all the tribes of ![]() |
31:5 | So there were delivered out of the thousands of ![]() |
31:6 | 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. |
31:7 | And they warred against the Midianites, as the LORD commanded Moses; and they slew all the males. |
31:8 | And they slew the ![]() ![]() ![]() |
31:9 | And the children of ![]() ![]() |
31:10 | And they burnt all their cities wherein they dwelt, and all their goodly castles, with fire. |
31:11 | And they took all the spoil, and all the prey, [both] of men and of beasts. |
31:12 | 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 ![]() |
31:13 | And Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and all the princes of the congregation, went forth to meet them without the camp. |
31:14 | And Moses was wroth with the officers of the host, [with] the captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, which came from the battle. |
31:15 | And Moses said unto them, Have ye saved all the women alive? |
31:16 | Behold, these caused the children of ![]() |
31:17 | Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him. |
31:18 | But all the women children, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves. |
31:19 | And ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
31:20 | And purify all [your] raiment, and all that is made of skins, and all work of goats' [hair], and all things made of wood. |
31:21 | 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; |
31:22 | Only the gold, and the silver, the brass, the iron, the tin, and the lead, |
31:23 | 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 ![]() ![]() |
31:24 | And ye shall wash your clothes on the seventh ![]() |
31:25 | And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, |
31:26 | 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: |
31:27 | 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: |
31:28 | 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 ![]() |
31:29 | Take [it] of their half, and give it unto Eleazar the priest, [for] an heave offering of the LORD. |
31:30 | And of the children of ![]() |
31:31 | And Moses and Eleazar the priest did as the LORD commanded Moses. |
31:32 | 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 ![]() |
31:33 | And threescore and twelve thousand beeves, |
31:34 | And threescore and one thousand asses, |
31:35 | And thirty and two thousand persons in all, of women that had not known man by lying with him. |
31:36 | 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 ![]() |
31:37 | And the LORD' tribute of the ![]() |
31:38 | And the beeves [were] thirty and six thousand; of which the LORD' tribute [was] threescore and twelve. |
31:39 | And the asses [were] thirty thousand and five hundred; of which the LORD' tribute [was] threescore and one. |
31:40 | And the persons [were] sixteen thousand; of which the LORD' tribute [was] thirty and two persons. |
31:41 | And Moses gave the tribute, [which was] the LORD' heave offering, unto Eleazar the priest, as the LORD commanded Moses. |
31:42 | And of the children of ![]() |
31:43 | (Now the half [that pertained unto] the congregation was three hundred thousand and thirty thousand [and] seven thousand and five hundred ![]() |
31:44 | And thirty and six thousand beeves, |
31:45 | And thirty thousand asses and five hundred, |
31:46 | And sixteen thousand persons;) |
31:47 | Even of the children of ![]() |
31:48 | And the officers which [were] over thousands of the host, the captains of thousands, and captains of hundreds, came near unto Moses: |
31:49 | 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. |
31:50 | We have therefore brought an oblation for the LORD, what every man hath gotten, of jewels of ![]() ![]() |
31:51 | And Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold of them, [even] all wrought jewels. |
31:52 | 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. |
31:53 | ([For] the men of war had taken spoil, every man for himself.) |
31:54 | 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 ![]() |