Numbers 31

CLV^{(i) 1} Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying. ² Avenge the sons of Israel with vengeance on the Midianites; and afterward you shall be gathered to your people. ³ Then Moses spoke to the people, saying:Outfit men from among you as a militia host that they may come against Midian to deliver the vengeance of Yahweh on Midian. ⁴ A thousand per stock, a thousand per stock from all the stocks of Israel shall you send as the militia host. ⁵ So they withdrew from the thousands of Israel a thousand per stock, twelve thousand outfitted as the militia host. ⁶ Then Moses sent them out, a thousand per stock, as the militia host, and with them Phineas son of Eleazar the priest for the militia host, with the furnishings of the sanctuary and the bugles for the blast in his hand. ⁷ They rallied against the Midian just as Yahweh had instructed Moses, and they killed every male. ⁸ As for the kings of Midian, they killed them along with their men wounded to death:Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur and Reba, five kings of Midian. Also Balaam son of Beor they killed with the sword. ⁹ The sons of Israel captured the women of Midian and their little ones; they plundered all their beasts, all their cattle and all their estate. ¹⁰ All their walled cities with their dwellings and all their nomadic domiciles they burned with fire. ¹¹ They took all the loot and all the booty, including human and beast. ¹² Then they brought the captives and the booty and the loot, to Moses and to Eleazar the priest and to all the congregation of the sons of Israel, at the camp, on the plains of Moab which are along the Jordan across from Jericho. ¹³ Moses and Eleazar the priest and all the princes of the congregation went forth to meet them outside the camp. ¹⁴ Moses was wrathful with the officers of the army, chiefs of the thousands and chiefs of the hundreds, coming back from the militia host of the war. ¹⁵ And Moses said to them:You have kept every female alive? ¹⁶ Behold, they, by the word of Balaam, came to be for the sons of Israel the reason for a withdrawal from and an offense against Yahweh in the matter of Peor, so that the stroke came to be in the congregation of Yahweh. ¹⁷ And now, kill every male among the little ones, and every woman having known a man (at bed with a male), kill. ¹⁸ Yet every little one among the womenfolk who have not known bed with a male keep alive for yourselves. ¹⁹ As for you, encamp outside the camp seven days. All of you having killed a soul and all having touched a man wounded to death shall purify yourselves from sin on the third day and on the seventh day, both you and your captives;" ²⁰ and every garment and every article of leather and every handiwork of goats' hair and every article of wood shall you purify for yourselves from sin. ²¹ Eleazar the priest said to the men of the militia host who had come into the battle:This is the statute of the law which Yahweh has instructed Moses. ²² Yea, the gold and the silver, the copper, the iron, the tin and the lead, ²³ everything which may come through fire you shall cause to pass through fire, and it will be clean. Nevertheless, by the water of impurity shall it purify itself from sin. And everything which may not come through fire you shall cause to pass through water. ²⁴ You will rinse your garments on the seventh day, and you will be clean. And thereafter you may come into the camp. ²⁵ Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying. ²⁶ Obtain the sum of the booty, of the captives among human and among beast, you and Eleazar the priest and the heads of the fathers of the congregation. ²⁷ And you will divide the booty between those handing the war, those going forth with the militia host, and the whole congregation. ²⁸ Raise up an assessment for Yahweh from the men of war, those going forth with the militia host:one soul out of five hundred from the human and from the beast, from the herd, from the donkeys and from the flock. ²⁹ From their half-share shall you take it, and you will give it to Eleazar the priest as a heave offering to Yahweh. ³⁰ And from the half-share of the sons of Israel you shall take one to be withheld out of fifty, from the human, from the herd, from the donkeys and from the flock, from every beast, and you will give them to the Levites, the ones keeping charge of Yahweh's tabernacle. ³¹ So Moses and Eleazar the priest did as Yahweh had instructed Moses. ³² The booty, the rest of the plunder which the people of the militia host had plundered came to be:a flock of six hundred seventy-five thousand, ³³ a herd of seventy-two thousand, ³⁴ sixty-one thousand donkeys. ³⁵ As for the human souls of womenfolk who had not known bed with a male, all the souls were thirty-two thousand. ³⁶ The half-share, the portion of those going forth with the militia host, came to number a flock of three hundred thirty-seven thousand five hundred. ³⁷ And the assessment for Yahweh came to be, from the flock, six hundred seventy-five. ³⁸ The herd was thirty-six thousand, and their assessment for Yahweh was seventy-two. ³⁹ The donkeys were thirty thousand five hundred, and their assessment for Yahweh was sixty-one. ⁴⁰ The human souls were sixteen thousand, and their assessment for Yahweh was thirty-two souls. ⁴¹ Moses gave the assessment as a heave offering of Yahweh, to Eleazar the priest, just as Yahweh had instructed Moses. ⁴² As for the half-share of the sons of Israel which Moses had divided from that of the mustered militiamen, ⁴³ the half-share of the congregation came to be, from the flock, three hundred thirty-seven thousand five hundred. ⁴⁴ And the herd was thirty-six thousand, ⁴⁵ the donkeys thirty thousand five hundred, ⁴⁶ and the human souls sixteen thousand. ⁴⁷ Moses took from the half-share of the sons of Israel one to be withheld out of fifty from the human and from the beast; and he gave them to the Levites, the ones keeping charge of Yahweh's tabernacle just as Yahweh had instructed Moses. ⁴⁸ Then the officers who were for thousands of the militia host, the chiefs of thousands and the chiefs of hundreds, came near to Mose. ⁴⁹ and said to Moses:Your servants have obtained the total of the men of war who are under our hand, and not a man is missing from us. ⁵⁰ So we have brought near as an approach present to Yahweh, whatever articles of gold each man found:armlets and bracelets, rings, earrings and plaited ornaments to make a propitiatory shelter over our souls before Yahweh. ⁵¹ Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold from them, all articles of handiwork. ⁵² All the gold of the heave offering which they raised up to Yahweh was sixteen thousand seven hundred fifty shekels from the chiefs of thousands and from the chiefs of hundreds. ⁵³ (The men of the militia host had plundered, each man for himself.. ⁵⁴ And Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold from the chiefs of thousands and hundreds and brought it to the tent of appointment, a reminder for the sons of Israel before Yahweh.