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Numbers 31-32

Numbers Chapter 31

¹The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, ²“Avenge the children of Israel on the Midianites. Afterward you shall be gathered to your people.” ³Moses spoke to the people, saying, “Arm men from among you for war, that they may go against Midian, to execute the LORD’s vengeance on Midian. ⁴You shall send one thousand out of every tribe, throughout all the tribes of Israel, to the war.” ⁵So there were delivered, out of the thousands of Israel, a thousand from every tribe, twelve thousand armed for war. ⁶Moses sent them, one thousand of every tribe, to the war with Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, to the war, with the vessels of the sanctuary and the trumpets for the alarm in his hand. ⁷They fought against Midian, as the LORD commanded Moses. They killed every male. ⁸They killed the kings of Midian with the rest of their slain: Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba, the five kings of Midian. They also killed Balaam the son of Beor with the sword. ⁹The children of Israel took the women of Midian captive with their little ones; and all their livestock, all their flocks, and all their goods, they took as plunder. ¹⁰All their cities in the places in which they lived, and all their encampments, they burned with fire. ¹¹They took all the captives, and all the plunder, both of man and of animal. ¹²They brought the captives with the prey and the plunder, to Moses, and to Eleazar the priest, and to the congregation of the children of Israel, to the camp at the plains of Moab, which are by the Jordan at Jericho. ¹³Moses and Eleazar the priest, with all the princes of the congregation, went out to meet them outside of the camp. ¹⁴Moses was angry with the officers of the army, the captains of thousands and the captains of hundreds, who came from the service of the war. ¹⁵Moses said to them, “Have you saved all the women alive? ¹⁶Behold, these caused the children of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to commit trespass against the LORD in the matter of Peor, and so the plague was among the congregation of the LORD. ¹⁷Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who has known man by lying with him. ¹⁸But all the girls, who have not known man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves. ¹⁹“Encamp outside of the camp for seven days. Whoever has killed any person, and whoever has touched any slain, purify yourselves on the third day and on the seventh day, you and your captives. ²⁰You shall purify every garment, and all that is made of skin, and all work of goats’ hair, and all things made of wood.” ²¹Eleazar the priest said to the men of war who went to the battle, “This is the statute of the law which the LORD has commanded Moses. ²²However the gold, and the silver, the bronze, the iron, the tin, and the lead, ²³everything that may withstand the fire, you shall make to go through the fire, and it shall be clean; nevertheless it shall be purified with the water for impurity. All that doesn’t withstand the fire you shall make to go through the water. ²⁴You shall wash your clothes on the seventh day, and you shall be clean. Afterward you shall come into the camp.” ²⁵The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, ²⁶“Count the plunder that was taken, both of man and of animal, you, and Eleazar the priest, and the heads of the fathers’ households of the congregation; ²⁷and divide the plunder into two parts: between the men skilled in war, who went out to battle, and all the congregation. ²⁸Levy a tribute to the LORD of the men of war who went out to battle: one soul of five hundred; of the persons, of the cattle, of the donkeys, and of the flocks. ²⁹Take it from their half, and give it to Eleazar the priest, for the LORD’s wave offering. ³⁰Of the children 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 flocks, of all the livestock, and give them to the Levites, who perform the duty of the LORD’s tabernacle.” ³¹Moses and Eleazar the priest did as the LORD commanded Moses. ³²Now the plunder, over and above the booty which the men of war took, was six hundred seventy-five thousand sheep, ³³seventy-two thousand head of cattle, ³⁴sixty-one thousand donkeys, ³⁵and thirty-two thousand persons in all, of the women who had not known man by lying with him. ³⁶The half, which was the portion of those who went out to war, was in number three hundred thirty-seven thousand five hundred sheep; ³⁷and the LORD’s tribute of the sheep was six hundred seventy-five. ³⁸The cattle were thirty-six thousand, of which the LORD’s tribute was seventy-two. ³⁹The donkeys were thirty thousand five hundred, of which the LORD’s tribute was sixty-one. ⁴⁰The persons were sixteen thousand, of whom the LORD’s tribute was thirty-two persons. ⁴¹Moses gave the tribute, which was the LORD’s wave offering, to Eleazar the priest, as the LORD commanded Moses. ⁴²Of the children of Israel’s half, which Moses divided off from the men who fought ⁴³(now the congregation’s half was three hundred thirty-seven thousand five hundred sheep, ⁴⁴thirty-six thousand head of cattle, ⁴⁵thirty thousand five hundred donkeys, ⁴⁶and sixteen thousand persons), ⁴⁷even of the children of Israel’s half, Moses took one drawn out of every fifty, both of man and of animal, and gave them to the Levites, who performed the duty of the LORD’s tabernacle, as the LORD commanded Moses. ⁴⁸The officers who were over the thousands of the army, the captains of thousands, and the captains of hundreds, came near to Moses. ⁴⁹They said to Moses, “Your servants have taken the sum of the men of war who are under our command, and there lacks not one man of us. ⁵⁰We have brought the LORD’s offering, what every man found: gold ornaments, armlets, bracelets, signet rings, earrings, and necklaces, to make atonement for our souls before the LORD.” ⁵¹Moses and Eleazar the priest took their gold, even all worked jewels. ⁵²All the gold of the wave offering that they offered up to the LORD, of the captains of thousands, and of the captains of hundreds, was sixteen thousand seven hundred fifty shekels. ⁵³The men of war had taken booty, every man for himself. ⁵⁴Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold of the captains of thousands and of hundreds, and brought it into the Tent of Meeting for a memorial for the children of Israel before the LORD.

1: The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

2: “Avenge the children of Israel on the Midianites. Afterward you shall be gathered to your people.”

3: Moses spoke to the people, saying, “Arm men from among you for war, that they may go against Midian, to execute the LORD’s vengeance on Midian.

4: You shall send one thousand out of every tribe, throughout all the tribes of Israel, to the war.”

5: So there were delivered, out of the thousands of Israel, a thousand from every tribe, twelve thousand armed for war.

6: Moses sent them, one thousand of every tribe, to the war with Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, to the war, with the vessels of the sanctuary and the trumpets for the alarm in his hand.

7: They fought against Midian, as the LORD commanded Moses. They killed every male.

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

9: The children of Israel took the women of Midian captive with their little ones; and all their livestock, all their flocks, and all their goods, they took as plunder.

10: All their cities in the places in which they lived, and all their encampments, they burned with fire.

11: They took all the captives, and all the plunder, both of man and of animal.

12: They brought the captives with the prey and the plunder, to Moses, and to Eleazar the priest, and to the congregation of the children of Israel, to the camp at the plains of Moab, which are by the Jordan at Jericho.

13: Moses and Eleazar the priest, with all the princes of the congregation, went out to meet them outside of the camp.

14: Moses was angry with the officers of the army, the captains of thousands and the captains of hundreds, who came from the service of the war.

15: Moses said to them, “Have you saved all the women alive?

16: Behold, these caused the children of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to commit trespass against the LORD in the matter of Peor, and so the plague was among the congregation of the LORD.

17: Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who has known man by lying with him.

18: But all the girls, who have not known man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.

19: “Encamp outside of the camp for seven days. Whoever has killed any person, and whoever has touched any slain, purify yourselves on the third day and on the seventh day, you and your captives.

20: You shall purify every garment, and all that is made of skin, and all work of goats’ hair, and all things made of wood.”

21: Eleazar the priest said to the men of war who went to the battle, “This is the statute of the law which the LORD has commanded Moses.

22: However the gold, and the silver, the bronze, the iron, the tin, and the lead,

23: everything that may withstand the fire, you shall make to go through the fire, and it shall be clean; nevertheless it shall be purified with the water for impurity. All that doesn’t withstand the fire you shall make to go through the water.

24: You shall wash your clothes on the seventh day, and you shall be clean. Afterward you shall come into the camp.”

25: The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

26: “Count the plunder that was taken, both of man and of animal, you, and Eleazar the priest, and the heads of the fathers’ households of the congregation;

27: and divide the plunder into two parts: between the men skilled in war, who went out to battle, and all the congregation.

28: Levy a tribute to the LORD of the men of war who went out to battle: one soul of five hundred; of the persons, of the cattle, of the donkeys, and of the flocks.

29: Take it from their half, and give it to Eleazar the priest, for the LORD’s wave offering.

30: Of the children 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 flocks, of all the livestock, and give them to the Levites, who perform the duty of the LORD’s tabernacle.”

31: Moses and Eleazar the priest did as the LORD commanded Moses.

32: Now the plunder, over and above the booty which the men of war took, was six hundred seventy-five thousand sheep,

33: seventy-two thousand head of cattle,

34: sixty-one thousand donkeys,

35: and thirty-two thousand persons in all, of the women who had not known man by lying with him.

36: The half, which was the portion of those who went out to war, was in number three hundred thirty-seven thousand five hundred sheep;

37: and the LORD’s tribute of the sheep was six hundred seventy-five.

38: The cattle were thirty-six thousand, of which the LORD’s tribute was seventy-two.

39: The donkeys were thirty thousand five hundred, of which the LORD’s tribute was sixty-one.

40: The persons were sixteen thousand, of whom the LORD’s tribute was thirty-two persons.

41: Moses gave the tribute, which was the LORD’s wave offering, to Eleazar the priest, as the LORD commanded Moses.

42: Of the children of Israel’s half, which Moses divided off from the men who fought

43: (now the congregation’s half was three hundred thirty-seven thousand five hundred sheep,

44: thirty-six thousand head of cattle,

45: thirty thousand five hundred donkeys,

46: and sixteen thousand persons),

47: even of the children of Israel’s half, Moses took one drawn out of every fifty, both of man and of animal, and gave them to the Levites, who performed the duty of the LORD’s tabernacle, as the LORD commanded Moses.

48: The officers who were over the thousands of the army, the captains of thousands, and the captains of hundreds, came near to Moses.

49: They said to Moses, “Your servants have taken the sum of the men of war who are under our command, and there lacks not one man of us.

50: We have brought the LORD’s offering, what every man found: gold ornaments, armlets, bracelets, signet rings, earrings, and necklaces, to make atonement for our souls before the LORD.”

51: Moses and Eleazar the priest took their gold, even all worked jewels.

52: All the gold of the wave offering that they offered up to the LORD, of the captains of thousands, and of the captains of hundreds, was sixteen thousand seven hundred fifty shekels.

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

54: Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold of the captains of thousands and of hundreds, and brought it into the Tent of Meeting for a memorial for the children of Israel before the LORD.

Numbers Chapter 32

¹Now the children of Reuben and the children of Gad had a very great multitude of livestock. They saw the land of Jazer, and the land of Gilead. Behold, the place was a place for livestock. ²Then the children of Gad and the children of Reuben came and spoke to Moses, and to Eleazar the priest, and to the princes of the congregation, saying, ³“Ataroth, Dibon, Jazer, Nimrah, Heshbon, Elealeh, Sebam, Nebo, and Beon, ⁴the land which the LORD struck before the congregation of Israel, is a land for livestock; and your servants have livestock.” ⁵They said, “If we have found favor in your sight, let this land be given to your servants for a possession. Don’t bring us over the Jordan.” ⁶Moses said to the children of Gad, and to the children of Reuben, “Shall your brothers go to war while you sit here? ⁷Why do you discourage the heart of the children of Israel from going over into the land which the LORD has given them? ⁸Your fathers did so when I sent them from Kadesh Barnea to see the land. ⁹For when they went up to the valley of Eshcol, and saw the land, they discouraged the heart of the children of Israel, that they should not go into the land which the LORD had given them. ¹⁰The LORD’s anger burned in that day, and he swore, saying, ¹¹‘Surely none of the men who came up out of Egypt, from twenty years old and upward, shall see the land which I swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob; because they have not wholly followed me, ¹²except Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite, and Joshua the son of Nun, because they have followed the LORD completely.’ ¹³The LORD’s anger burned against Israel, and he made them wander back and forth in the wilderness forty years, until all the generation who had done evil in the LORD’s sight was consumed. ¹⁴“Behold, you have risen up in your fathers’ place, an increase of sinful men, to increase the fierce anger of the LORD toward Israel. ¹⁵For if you turn away from after him, he will yet again leave them in the wilderness; and you will destroy all these people.” ¹⁶They came near to him, and said, “We will build sheepfolds here for our livestock, and cities for our little ones; ¹⁷but we ourselves will be ready armed to go before the children of Israel, until we have brought them to their place. Our little ones shall dwell in the fortified cities because of the inhabitants of the land. ¹⁸We will not return to our houses until the children of Israel have all received their inheritance. ¹⁹For we will not inherit with them on the other side of the Jordan and beyond, because our inheritance has come to us on this side of the Jordan eastward.” ²⁰Moses said to them: “If you will do this thing, if you will arm yourselves to go before the LORD to the war, ²¹and every one of your armed men will pass over the Jordan before the LORD until he has driven out his enemies from before him, ²²and the land is subdued before the LORD; then afterward you shall return, and be clear of obligation to the LORD and to Israel. Then this land shall be your possession before the LORD. ²³“But if you will not do so, behold, you have sinned against the LORD; and be sure your sin will find you out. ²⁴Build cities for your little ones, and folds for your sheep; and do that which has proceeded out of your mouth.” ²⁵The children of Gad and the children of Reuben spoke to Moses, saying, “Your servants will do as my lord commands. ²⁶Our little ones, our wives, our flocks, and all our livestock shall be there in the cities of Gilead; ²⁷but your servants will pass over, every man who is armed for war, before the LORD to battle, as my lord says.” ²⁸So Moses commanded 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 children of Israel. ²⁹Moses said to them, “If the children of Gad and the children of Reuben will pass with you over the Jordan, every man who is armed to battle before the LORD, and the land is subdued before you, then you shall give them the land of Gilead for a possession; ³⁰but if they will not pass over with you armed, they shall have possessions among you in the land of Canaan.” ³¹The children of Gad and the children of Reuben answered, saying, “As the LORD has said to your servants, so will we do. ³²We will pass over armed before the LORD into the land of Canaan, and the possession of our inheritance shall remain with us beyond the Jordan.” ³³Moses gave to them, even to the children of Gad, and to the children of Reuben, and to the half-tribe of Manasseh the son of Joseph, the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, and the kingdom of Og king of Bashan; the land, according to its cities and borders, even the cities of the surrounding land. ³⁴The children of Gad built Dibon, Ataroth, Aroer, ³⁵Atroth-shophan, Jazer, Jogbehah, ³⁶Beth Nimrah, and Beth Haran: fortified cities and folds for sheep. ³⁷The children of Reuben built Heshbon, Elealeh, Kiriathaim, ³⁸Nebo, and Baal Meon, (their names being changed), and Sibmah. They gave other names to the cities which they built. ³⁹The children of Machir the son of Manasseh went to Gilead, took it, and dispossessed the Amorites who were therein. ⁴⁰Moses gave Gilead to Machir the son of Manasseh; and he lived therein. ⁴¹Jair the son of Manasseh went and took its villages, and called them Havvoth Jair. ⁴²Nobah went and took Kenath and its villages, and called it Nobah, after his own name.

1: Now the children of Reuben and the children of Gad had a very great multitude of livestock. They saw the land of Jazer, and the land of Gilead. Behold, the place was a place for livestock.

2: Then the children of Gad and the children of Reuben came and spoke to Moses, and to Eleazar the priest, and to the princes of the congregation, saying,

3: “Ataroth, Dibon, Jazer, Nimrah, Heshbon, Elealeh, Sebam, Nebo, and Beon,

4: the land which the LORD struck before the congregation of Israel, is a land for livestock; and your servants have livestock.”

5: They said, “If we have found favor in your sight, let this land be given to your servants for a possession. Don’t bring us over the Jordan.”

6: Moses said to the children of Gad, and to the children of Reuben, “Shall your brothers go to war while you sit here?

7: Why do you discourage the heart of the children of Israel from going over into the land which the LORD has given them?

8: Your fathers did so when I sent them from Kadesh Barnea to see the land.

9: For when they went up to the valley of Eshcol, and saw the land, they discouraged the heart of the children of Israel, that they should not go into the land which the LORD had given them.

10: The LORD’s anger burned in that day, and he swore, saying,

11: ‘Surely none of the men who came up out of Egypt, from twenty years old and upward, shall see the land which I swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob; because they have not wholly followed me,

12: except Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite, and Joshua the son of Nun, because they have followed the LORD completely.’

13: The LORD’s anger burned against Israel, and he made them wander back and forth in the wilderness forty years, until all the generation who had done evil in the LORD’s sight was consumed.

14: “Behold, you have risen up in your fathers’ place, an increase of sinful men, to increase the fierce anger of the LORD toward Israel.

15: For if you turn away from after him, he will yet again leave them in the wilderness; and you will destroy all these people.”

16: They came near to him, and said, “We will build sheepfolds here for our livestock, and cities for our little ones;

17: but we ourselves will be ready armed to go before the children of Israel, until we have brought them to their place. Our little ones shall dwell in the fortified cities because of the inhabitants of the land.

18: We will not return to our houses until the children of Israel have all received their inheritance.

19: For we will not inherit with them on the other side of the Jordan and beyond, because our inheritance has come to us on this side of the Jordan eastward.”

20: Moses said to them: “If you will do this thing, if you will arm yourselves to go before the LORD to the war,

21: and every one of your armed men will pass over the Jordan before the LORD until he has driven out his enemies from before him,

22: and the land is subdued before the LORD; then afterward you shall return, and be clear of obligation to the LORD and to Israel. Then this land shall be your possession before the LORD.

23: “But if you will not do so, behold, you have sinned against the LORD; and be sure your sin will find you out.

24: Build cities for your little ones, and folds for your sheep; and do that which has proceeded out of your mouth.”

25: The children of Gad and the children of Reuben spoke to Moses, saying, “Your servants will do as my lord commands.

26: Our little ones, our wives, our flocks, and all our livestock shall be there in the cities of Gilead;

27: but your servants will pass over, every man who is armed for war, before the LORD to battle, as my lord says.”

28: So Moses commanded 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 children of Israel.

29: Moses said to them, “If the children of Gad and the children of Reuben will pass with you over the Jordan, every man who is armed to battle before the LORD, and the land is subdued before you, then you shall give them the land of Gilead for a possession;

30: but if they will not pass over with you armed, they shall have possessions among you in the land of Canaan.”

31: The children of Gad and the children of Reuben answered, saying, “As the LORD has said to your servants, so will we do.

32: We will pass over armed before the LORD into the land of Canaan, and the possession of our inheritance shall remain with us beyond the Jordan.”

33: Moses gave to them, even to the children of Gad, and to the children of Reuben, and to the half-tribe of Manasseh the son of Joseph, the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, and the kingdom of Og king of Bashan; the land, according to its cities and borders, even the cities of the surrounding land.

34: The children of Gad built Dibon, Ataroth, Aroer,

35: Atroth-shophan, Jazer, Jogbehah,

36: Beth Nimrah, and Beth Haran: fortified cities and folds for sheep.

37: The children of Reuben built Heshbon, Elealeh, Kiriathaim,

38: Nebo, and Baal Meon, (their names being changed), and Sibmah. They gave other names to the cities which they built.

39: The children of Machir the son of Manasseh went to Gilead, took it, and dispossessed the Amorites who were therein.

40: Moses gave Gilead to Machir the son of Manasseh; and he lived therein.

41: Jair the son of Manasseh went and took its villages, and called them Havvoth Jair.

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

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