Numbers 31

And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

Avenge the vengeance of the sons of Israel on the Madianites, and last you shall be added to your people.

And Moses spoke to the people, saying: Arm men from among you to set in array before the Lord against Madian, to repay the vengeance from the Lord upon Madian.

A thousand from a tribe, a thousand from a tribe, from all the tribes of Israel, send them to set in array.

And they counted out from the thousands of Israel a thousand from a tribe, twelve thousand armed for battle array.

And Moses sent them, a thousand from a tribe, a thousand from a tribe, with their force, and Phinees son of Eleazar son of Aaron the priest; and the holy vessels and the trumpets of the signals were in their hands.

And they set in array against Madian, just as the Lord commanded Moses, and they killed every male.

And they killed the kings of Madian along with their slain: Euin and Sour and Rokom and Our and Robok, five kings of Madian; and Balaam son of Beor they killed with the sword along with their slain.

And they plundered the women of Madian and their household and their livestock and all their possessions; and they plundered their force.

And all their cities that were among their dwellings, and their encampments, they burned with fire.

And they took all the plunder and all their spoils, from human to beast.

And they brought to Moses and to Eleazar the priest and to all the sons of Israel the captivity and the spoils and the plunder, into the camp, into Araboth Moab, which is by the Jordan opposite Jericho.

And Moses went out, and Eleazar the priest and all the rulers of the congregation, to meet them outside the camp.

And Moses was angry with the overseers of the force, the commanders of thousands and the commanders of hundreds, who came from the battle array of the war.

And Moses said to them: Why did you take alive every female?

For these were to the sons of Israel, according to the word of Balaam, a cause to make them depart and to disregard the word of the Lord, on account of Phogor; and the plague came upon the congregation of the Lord.

And now kill every male among all the chattel, and every woman who has known the bed of a male, kill.

All the chattel of the women who has not known the bed of a male, take them alive for yourselves.

And you, encamp outside the camp seven days; everyone who has killed and everyone who touches the slain shall purify himself on the third day and on the seventh day, you and your captivity.

And every garment and every vessel of skin and every work of goat's hair and every wooden vessel you shall purify.

And Eleazar the priest said to the men of the force who came from the battle array of the war: This is the ordinance of the law which the Lord ordered Moses.

Only the gold and the silver and bronze and iron and lead and tin—

every thing that shall pass through fire shall also be cleansed, but it shall be purified with the water of purification; and everything that does not pass through fire shall pass through water.

And you shall wash your garments on the seventh day and shall be cleansed, and after these things you shall enter into the camp.

And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

Take the sum of the spoils of the captivity, from human to beast, you and Eleazar the priest and the rulers of the ancestral houses of the congregation.

And you shall divide the spoils between the warriors who went out into the battle array and all the congregation.

And you shall take a levy for the Lord from the men, the warriors who went out into the battle array: one soul out of five hundred, from the humans and from the livestock and from the oxen and from the sheep and from the goats.

And from their half you shall take it, and you shall give to Eleazar the priest the firstfruits of the Lord.

And from the half belonging to the sons of Israel you shall take one out of fifty, from the humans and from the oxen and from the sheep and from the donkeys and from all the livestock; and you shall give them to the Levites who keep the watches in the tent of the Lord.

And Moses and Eleazar the priest did just as the Lord ordered Moses.

And the excess of the plunder which the men, the warriors, had plundered was: from the sheep, six hundred thousand and seventy and five thousand;

and oxen, seventy-two thousand;

and asses: sixty-one thousand;

and human souls, from among the women who had not known the bed of a man: all the souls were thirty-two thousand.

And the half, the portion of those who had gone out to the war, was, from the number of the sheep: three hundred and thirty thousand and seven thousand and five hundred;

and the levy to the Lord from the sheep was six hundred seventy-five.

And oxen: thirty-six thousand; and the levy to the Lord: seventy-two.

And asses: thirty thousand five hundred; and the levy to the Lord: sixty-one.

And human souls: sixteen thousand; and their levy to the Lord: thirty-two souls.

And Moses gave the levy to the Lord, the offering of God, to Eleazar the priest, as the Lord had ordered Moses.

from the half belonging to the sons of Israel, whom Moses divided off from the men who were warriors —

And the half belonging to the congregation was, from the sheep: three hundred thousand and thirty thousand and seven thousand and five hundred;

and oxen: thirty-six thousand;

asses: thirty thousand five hundred;

and human souls: sixteen thousand.

And Moses took from the half belonging to the sons of Israel the one out of fifty, from the humans and from the cattle, and gave them to the Levites who keep the watches of the tabernacle of the Lord, in the manner the Lord ordered Moses.

And there came to Moses all those appointed over the thousands of the host, commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds,

and they said to Moses: Your servants have taken the sum of the men of war who are with us, and not even one of them is missing.

And we have brought the gift to the Lord — each man what he found, a golden article: an armlet and a bracelet and a ring and an arm-band and a hair-clasp — to make atonement for ourselves before the Lord.

And Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold from them, every wrought article.

And all the gold, the offering which they set apart for the Lord, was sixteen thousand seven hundred and fifty shekels, from the commanders of thousands and from the commanders of hundreds.

And the men of war had taken plunder, each for himself.

And Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold from the commanders of thousands and from the commanders of hundreds and brought it into the tent of witness, a memorial of the sons of Israel before the Lord.