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And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses , saying,
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`Execute the vengeance of the sons of Israel against the Midianites -- afterwards thou art gathered unto thy people.'
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And Moses speaketh unto the people, saying, `Be ye armed some of you for the host , and they are against Midian , to put the vengeance of Jehovah on Midian ;
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a thousand for a tribe -- a thousand for a tribe , to all the tribes of Israel -- ye do send to the host .'
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And there are given out of the thousands of Israel a thousand for a tribe , twelve thousand armed ones of the host ;
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and Moses sendeth them, a thousand for a tribe , to the host , them and Phinehas son of Eleazar the priest, to the host ; and the holy vessels , and the trumpets of the shouting , in his hand .
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And they war against Midian , as Jehovah hath commanded Moses , and slay every male;
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and the kings of Midian they have slain , besides their pierced ones, Evi, and Rekem, and Zur, and Hur , and Reba, five kings of Midian ; and Balaam son of Beor, they have slain with the sword .
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And the sons of Israel take captive the women of Midian , and their infants; and all their cattle , and all their substance , and all their wealth they have plundered;
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and all their cities , with their habitations, and all their towers , they have burnt with fire .
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And they take all the spoil , and all the prey, among man and among beast ;
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and they bring in, unto Moses , and unto Eleazar the priest, and unto the company of the sons of Israel , the captives , and the prey, and the spoil , unto the camp , unto the plains of Moab , which [are] by Jordan , [near] Jericho .
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And Moses , and Eleazar the priest, and all the princes of the company , go out to meet them, unto the outside of the camp ,
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and Moses is wroth against the inspectors of the force , chiefs of the thousands , and chiefs of the hundreds , who are coming in from the host of the battle .
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And Moses saith unto them, `Have ye kept alive every female ?
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lo, they -- they have been to the sons of Israel , through the word of Balaam , to cause a trespass against Jehovah in the matter of Peor, and the plague is in the company of Jehovah .
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`And now, slay ye every male among the infants, yea, every woman known of man by the lying of a male ye have slain ;
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and all the infants among the women , who have not known the lying of a male, ye have kept alive for yourselves.
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`And ye, encamp ye at the outside of the camp seven days -- any who hath slain a person, and any who hath come against a pierced one, ye cleanse yourselves on the third day , and on the seventh day -- ye and your captives ;
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and every garment , and every skin vessel, and every work of goats ' [hair], and every wooden vessel, ye yourselves cleanse.'
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And Eleazar the priest saith unto the men of the host who go in to battle , `This [is] the statute of the law which Jehovah hath commanded Moses :
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only, the gold , and the silver , the brass , the iron , the tin , and the lead,
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every thing which may go into fire , ye cause to pass over through fire , and it hath been clean; only, with the water of separation it is cleansed, and all that may not go into fire , ye cause to pass over through water ;
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and ye have washed your garments on the seventh day , and have been clean, and afterwards ye come in unto the camp .'
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And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses , saying,
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`Take up the sum of the prey of the captives , among man and among beast , thou, and Eleazar the priest, and the heads of the fathers of the company ;
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and thou hast halved the prey between those handling the battle who go out to the host and all the company ;
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and thou hast raised a tribute to Jehovah from the men of war , who go out to the host , one body out of five hundred , of man, and of the herd , and of the asses , and of the flock ;
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from their half ye do take, and thou hast given to Eleazar the priest -- the heave-offering of Jehovah .
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`And from the sons of Israel 's half thou dost take one possession out of fifty , of man, of the herd , of the asses , and of the flock , of all the cattle, and thou hast given them to the Levites keeping the charge of the tabernacle of Jehovah .'
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And Moses doth -- Eleazar the priest also -- as Jehovah hath commanded Moses .
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And the prey, the residue of the spoil which the people of the host have spoiled, is of the flock six hundred thousand , and seventy thousand , and five thousand ;
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and of the herd two and seventy thousand ;
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and of asses one and sixty thousand ;
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and of human beings -- of the women who have not known the lying of a male -- all the persons [are] two and thirty thousand .
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And the half -- the portion of those who go out into the host -- the number of the flock is three hundred thousand , and thirty thousand , and seven thousand and five hundred .
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And the tribute to Jehovah of the sheep is six hundred five and seventy;
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and the herd [is] six and thirty thousand , and their tribute to Jehovah [is] two and seventy;
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and the asses [are] thirty thousand and five hundred , and their tribute to Jehovah [is] one and sixty ;
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and the human beings [are] sixteen thousand , and their tribute to Jehovah [is] two and thirty persons.
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And Moses giveth the tribute -- Jehovah's heave-offering -- to Eleazar the priest, as Jehovah hath commanded Moses .
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And of the sons of Israel 's half, which Moses halved from the men who war --
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and the company 's half is, of the flock three hundred thousand , and thirty thousand , seven thousand and five hundred ;
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and of the herd six and thirty thousand ;
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and of asses thirty thousand and five hundred ;
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and of human beings sixteen thousand --
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Moses taketh from the sons of Israel 's half the one possession from the fifty , of man and of beast , and giveth them to the Levites keeping the charge of the tabernacle of Jehovah , as Jehovah hath commanded Moses .
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And the inspectors whom the thousands of the host hath, (heads of the thousands and heads of the hundreds ), draw near unto Moses ,
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and they say unto Moses , `Thy servants have taken up the sum of the men of war who [are] with us , and not a man of us hath been missed;
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and we bring near Jehovah's offering, each that which he hath found , vessels of gold -- chain, and bracelet , seal-ring , [ear]-ring , and bead -- to make atonement for ourselves before Jehovah .'
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And Moses receiveth -- Eleazar the priest also -- the gold from them, every made vessel,
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and all the gold of the heave-offering which they have lifted up to Jehovah is sixteen thousand seven hundred and fifty shekels , from heads of the thousands , and from heads of the hundreds ;
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(the men of the host have spoiled each for himself);
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and Moses taketh -- Eleazar the priest also -- the gold from the heads of the thousands and of the hundreds , and they bring it in unto the tent of meeting -- a memorial for the sons of Israel before Jehovah .