Num 31:2 "Take full vengeance for the sons of Israel on the Midianites; afterward you will be gathered to your people."

Num 31:3 Moses spoke to the people, saying, "Arm men from among you for the war, that they may go against Midian to execute the Lord's vengeance on Midian.

Num 31:4 A thousand from each tribe of all the tribes of Israel you shall send to the war."

Num 31:5 So there were furnished from the thousands of Israel, a thousand from each tribe, twelve thousand armed for war.

Num 31:6 Moses sent them, a thousand from each tribe, to the war, and Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, to the war with them, and the holy vessels and the trumpets for the alarm in his hand.

Num 31:7 So they made war against Midian, just as the Lord had commanded Moses, and they killed every male.

Num 31:8 They killed the kings of Midian along with the rest of their slain: Evi and Rekem and Zur and Hur and Reba, the five kings of Midian; they also killed Balaam the son of Beor with the sword.

Num 31:9 The sons of Israel captured the women of Midian and their little ones; and all their cattle and all their flocks and all their goods they plundered.

Num 31:10 Then they burned all their cities where they lived and all their camps with fire.

Num 31:11 They took all the spoil and all the prey, both of man and of beast.

Num 31:12 They brought the captives and the prey and the spoil to Moses, and to Eleazar the priest and to the congregation of the sons of Israel, to the camp at the plains of Moab, which are by the Jordan opposite Jericho.

Num 31:13 Moses and Eleazar the priest and all the leaders of the congregation went out to meet them outside the camp.

Num 31:14 Moses was angry with the officers of the army, the captains of thousands and the captains of hundreds, who had come from service in the war.

Num 31:15 And Moses said to them, "Have you spared all the women?

Num 31:16 Behold, these caused the sons of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to trespass against the Lord in the matter of Peor, so the plague was among the congregation of the Lord.

Num 31:17 Now therefore, kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who has known man intimately.

Num 31:18 But all the girls who have not known man intimately, spare for yourselves.

Num 31:19 And you, camp outside the camp seven days; whoever has killed any person and whoever has touched any slain, purify yourselves, you and your captives, on the third day and on the seventh day.

Num 31:20 You shall purify for yourselves every garment and every article of leather and all the work of goats' hair, and all articles of wood."

Num 31:21 Then Eleazar the priest said to the men of war who had gone to battle, "This is the statute of the law which the Lord has commanded Moses:

Num 31:22 only the gold and the silver, the bronze, the iron, the tin and the lead,

Num 31:23 everything that can stand the fire, you shall pass through the fire, and it shall be clean, but it shall be purified with water for impurity. But whatever cannot stand the fire you shall pass through the water.

Num 31:24 And you shall wash your clothes on the seventh day and be clean, and afterward you may enter the camp."

Num 31:25 Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

Num 31:26 "You and Eleazar the priest and the heads of the fathers' households of the congregation take a count of the booty that was captured, both of man and of animal;

Num 31:27 and divide the booty between the warriors who went out to battle and all the congregation.

Num 31:28 Levy a tax for the Lord from the men of war who went out to battle, one in five hundred of the persons and of the cattle and of the donkeys and of the sheep;

Num 31:29 take it from their half and give it to Eleazar the priest, as an offering to the Lord.

Num 31:30 From the sons 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 sheep, from all the animals, and give them to the Levites who keep charge of the tabernacle of the Lord."

Num 31:31 Moses and Eleazar the priest did just as the Lord had commanded Moses.

Num 31:32 Now the booty that remained from the spoil which the men of war had plundered was 675,000 sheep,

Num 31:33 and 72,000 cattle,

Num 31:34 and 61,000 donkeys,

Num 31:35 and of human beings, of the women who had not known man intimately, all the persons were 32,000.

Num 31:36 The half, the portion of those who went out to war, was as follows: the number of sheep was 337,500,

Num 31:37 and the Lord's levy of the sheep was 675;

Num 31:38 and the cattle were 36,000, from which the Lord's levy was 72;

Num 31:39 and the donkeys were 30,500, from which the Lord's levy was 61;

Num 31:40 and the human beings were 16,000, from whom the Lord's levy was 32 persons.

Num 31:41 Moses gave the levy which was the Lord's offering to Eleazar the priest, just as the Lord had commanded Moses.

Num 31:42 As for the sons of Israel's half, which Moses separated from the men who had gone to war"

Num 31:43 now the congregation's half was 337,500 sheep,

Num 31:44 and 36,000 cattle,

Num 31:45 and 30,500 donkeys,

Num 31:46 and the human beings were 16,000--

Num 31:47 and from the sons of Israel's half, Moses took one drawn out of every fifty, both of man and of animals, and gave them to the Levites, who kept charge of the tabernacle of the Lord, just as the Lord had commanded Moses.

Num 31:48 Then the officers who were over the thousands of the army, the captains of thousands and the captains of hundreds, approached Moses,

Num 31:49 and they said to Moses, "Your servants have taken a census of men of war who are in our charge, and no man of us is missing.

Num 31:50 So we have brought as an offering to the Lord what each man found, articles of gold, armlets and bracelets, signet rings, earrings and necklaces, to make atonement for ourselves before the Lord."

Num 31:51 Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold from them, all kinds of wrought articles.

Num 31:52 All the gold of the offering which they offered up to the Lord, from the captains of thousands and the captains of hundreds, was 16,750 shekels.

Num 31:53 The men of war had taken booty, every man for himself.

Num 31:54 So Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold from the captains of thousands and of hundreds, and brought it to the tent of meeting as a memorial for the sons of Israel before the Lord.

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Num 32:1 Now the sons of Reuben and the sons of Gad had an exceedingly large number of livestock. So when they saw the land of Jazer and the land of Gilead, that it was indeed a place suitable for livestock,

Num 32:2 the sons of Gad and the sons of Reuben came and spoke to Moses and to Eleazar the priest and to the leaders of the congregation, saying,

Num 32:3 "Ataroth, Dibon, Jazer, Nimrah, Heshbon, Elealeh, Sebam, Nebo and Beon,

Num 32:4 the land which the Lord conquered before the congregation of Israel, is a land for livestock, and your servants have livestock."

Num 32:5 They said, "If we have found favor in your sight, let this land be given to your servants as a possession; do not take us across the Jordan."

Num 32:6 But Moses said to the sons of Gad and to the sons of Reuben, "Shall your brothers go to war while you yourselves sit here?

Num 32:7 Now why are you discouraging the sons of Israel from crossing over into the land which the Lord has given them?

Num 32:8 This is what your fathers did when I sent them from Kadesh-barnea to see the land.

Num 32:9 For when they went up to the valley of Eshcol and saw the land, they discouraged the sons of Israel so that they did not go into the land which the Lord had given them.

Num 32:10 So the Lord's anger burned in that day, and He swore, saying,

Num 32:11 'None of the men who came up from Egypt, from twenty years old and upward, shall see the land which I swore to Abraham, to Isaac and to Jacob; for they did not follow Me fully,

Num 32:12 except Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite and Joshua the son of Nun, for they have followed the Lord fully.'

Num 32:13 So the Lord's anger burned against Israel, and He made them wander in the wilderness forty years, until the entire generation of those who had done evil in the sight of the Lord was destroyed.

Num 32:14 Now behold, you have risen up in your fathers' place, a brood of sinful men, to add still more to the burning anger of the Lord against Israel.

Num 32:15 For if you turn away from following Him, He will once more abandon them in the wilderness, and you will destroy all these people."

Num 32:16 Then they came near to him and said, "We will build here sheepfolds for our livestock and cities for our little ones;

Num 32:17 but we ourselves will be armed ready to go before the sons of Israel, until we have brought them to their place, while our little ones live in the fortified cities because of the inhabitants of the land.

Num 32:18 We will not return to our homes until every one of the sons of Israel has possessed his inheritance.

Num 32:19 For we will not have an inheritance with them on the other side of the Jordan and beyond, because our inheritance has fallen to us on this side of the Jordan toward the east."

Num 32:20 So Moses said to them, "If you will do this, if you will arm yourselves before the Lord for the war,

Num 32:21 and all of you armed men cross over the Jordan before the Lord until He has driven His enemies out from before Him,

Num 32:22 and the land is subdued before the Lord, then afterward you shall return and be free of obligation toward the Lord and toward Israel, and this land shall be yours for a possession before the Lord.

Num 32:23 But if you will not do so, behold, you have sinned against the Lord, and be sure your sin will find you out.

Num 32:24 Build yourselves cities for your little ones, and sheepfolds for your sheep, and do what you have promised."

Num 32:25 The sons of Gad and the sons of Reuben spoke to Moses, saying, "Your servants will do just as my lord commands.

Num 32:26 Our little ones, our wives, our livestock and all our cattle shall remain there in the cities of Gilead;

Num 32:27 while your servants, everyone who is armed for war, will cross over in the presence of the Lord to battle, just as my lord says."

Num 32:28 So Moses gave command concerning them to Eleazar the priest, and to Joshua the son of Nun, and to the heads of the fathers' households of the tribes of the sons of Israel.

Num 32:29 Moses said to them, "If the sons of Gad and the sons of Reuben, everyone who is armed for battle, will cross with you over the Jordan in the presence of the Lord, and the land is subdued before you, then you shall give them the land of Gilead for a possession;

Num 32:30 but if they will not cross over with you armed, they shall have possessions among you in the land of Canaan."

Num 32:31 The sons of Gad and the sons of Reuben answered, saying, "As the Lord has said to your servants, so we will do.

Num 32:32 We ourselves will cross over armed in the presence of the Lord into the land of Canaan, and the possession of our inheritance shall remain with us across the Jordan."

Num 32:33 So Moses gave to them, to the sons of Gad and to the sons of Reuben and to the half-tribe of Joseph's son Manasseh, the kingdom of Sihon, king of the Amorites and the kingdom of Og, the king of Bashan, the land with its cities with their territories, the cities of the surrounding land.

Num 32:34 The sons of Gad built Dibon and Ataroth and Aroer,

Num 32:35 and Atroth-shophan and Jazer and Jogbehah,

Num 32:36 and Beth-nimrah and Beth-haran as fortified cities, and sheepfolds for sheep.

Num 32:37 The sons of Reuben built Heshbon and Elealeh and Kiriathaim,

Num 32:38 and Nebo and Baal-meon--their names being changed--and Sibmah, and they gave other names to the cities which they built.

Num 32:39 The sons of Machir the son of Manasseh went to Gilead and took it, and dispossessed the Amorites who were in it.

Num 32:40 So Moses gave Gilead to Machir the son of Manasseh, and he lived in it.

Num 32:41 Jair the son of Manasseh went and took its towns, and called them Havvoth-jair.

Num 32:42 Nobah went and took Kenath and its villages, and called it Nobah after his own name.