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and Rekem, and Zur, and Hur, and Reba, five kings of Midian: Balaam also the son of Beor they
slew with the sword.
9
And the children of Israel took
all
the women of Midian captives, and their
little ones, and took the spoil of all their cattle, and all their flocks, and all their goods.
10
And they
burnt all their cities wherein they dwelt, and all their goodly castles, with fire.
11
And they took all
the spoil, and all the prey,
both
of men and of beasts.
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 Israel, unto the camp at the plains of Moab, which
are
by Jordan
near
Jericho.
13
And Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and all the princes of the congregation, went forth to meet
them without the camp.
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.
15
And Moses said unto
them, Have ye saved all the women alive?
16
Behold, these caused the children of Israel, through
the counsel of Balaam, to commit trespass against the L
ORD
in the matter of Peor, and there was a
plague among the congregation of the L
ORD
.
17
Now therefore kill every male among the little ones,
and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him.
18
But all the women children, that
have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.
19
And do ye abide without
the camp seven days: whosoever hath killed any person, and whosoever hath touched any slain,
purify
both
yourselves and your captives on the third day, and on the seventh day.
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.
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 L
ORD
commanded Moses;
22
Only the gold, and the silver, the brass, the iron,
the tin, and the lead,
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 water of separation: and all that
abideth not the fire ye shall make go through the water.
24
And ye shall wash your clothes on the
seventh day, and ye shall be clean, and afterward ye shall come into the camp.
25
And the L
ORD
spake unto Moses, saying,
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:
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:
28
And levy a tribute unto the L
ORD
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 sheep:
29
Take
it
of their half, and give
it
unto Eleazar the priest,
for
an heave offering
of the L
ORD
.
30
And of the children of Israel’s half, thou shalt take one portion of fifty, of the persons,
of the beeves, of the asses, and of the flocks, of all manner of beasts, and give them unto the Levites,
which keep the charge of the tabernacle of the L
ORD
.
31
And Moses and Eleazar the priest did as
the L
ORD
commanded Moses.
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 sheep,
33
And
threescore and twelve thousand beeves,
34
And threescore and one thousand asses,
35
And thirty
and two thousand persons in all, of women that had not known man by lying with him.
36
And the
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