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 ![]() |
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 ![]() |