Numbers 31:1WEB
Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
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Numbers 31:1WEB
Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Numbers 31:2WEB
“Avenge the children of Israel on the Midianites. Afterward you shall be gathered to your people.”
Numbers 31:3WEB
Moses spoke to the people, saying, “Arm men from among you for war, that they may go against Midian, to execute Yahweh’s vengeance on Midian.
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Numbers 31:4WEB
You shall send one thousand out of every tribe, throughout all the tribes of Israel, to the war.”
Numbers 31:5WEB
So there were delivered, out of the thousands of Israel, a thousand from every tribe, twelve thousand armed for war.
Numbers 31:6WEB
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.
Numbers 31:7WEB
They fought against Midian, as Yahweh commanded Moses. They killed every male.
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Numbers 31:8WEB
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.
Numbers 31:9WEB
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.
Numbers 31:10WEB
All their cities in the places in which they lived, and all their encampments, they burned with fire.
Numbers 31:11WEB
They took all the captives, and all the plunder, both of man and of animal.
Numbers 31:12WEB
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.
Numbers 31:13WEB
Moses and Eleazar the priest, with all the princes of the congregation, went out to meet them outside of the camp.
Numbers 31:14WEB
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.
Numbers 31:15WEB
Moses said to them, “Have you saved all the women alive?
Numbers 31:16WEB
Behold, these caused the children of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to commit trespass against Yahweh in the matter of Peor, and so the plague was among the congregation of Yahweh.
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Numbers 31:17WEB
Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who has known man by lying with him.
Numbers 31:18WEB
But all the girls, who have not known man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.
Numbers 31:19WEB
“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.
Numbers 31:20WEB
You shall purify every garment, and all that is made of skin, and all work of goats’ hair, and all things made of wood.”
Numbers 31:21WEB
Eleazar the priest said to the men of war who went to the battle, “This is the statute of the law which Yahweh has commanded Moses.
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Numbers 31:22WEB
However the gold, and the silver, the bronze, the iron, the tin, and the lead,
Numbers 31:23WEB
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.
Numbers 31:24WEB
You shall wash your clothes on the seventh day, and you shall be clean. Afterward you shall come into the camp.”
Numbers 31:25WEB
Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Numbers 31:26WEB
“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;
Numbers 31:27WEB
and divide the plunder into two parts: between the men skilled in war, who went out to battle, and all the congregation.
Numbers 31:28WEB
Levy a tribute to Yahweh 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.
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Numbers 31:29WEB
Take it from their half, and give it to Eleazar the priest, for Yahweh’s wave offering.
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Numbers 31:30WEB
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 Yahweh’s tabernacle.”
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Numbers 31:31WEB
Moses and Eleazar the priest did as Yahweh commanded Moses.
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Numbers 31:32WEB
Now the plunder, over and above the booty which the men of war took, was six hundred seventy-five thousand sheep,
Numbers 31:33WEB
seventy-two thousand head of cattle,
Numbers 31:34WEB
sixty-one thousand donkeys,
Numbers 31:35WEB
and thirty-two thousand persons in all, of the women who had not known man by lying with him.
Numbers 31:36WEB
The half, which was the portion of those who went out to war, was in number three hundred thirty-seven thousand five hundred sheep;
Numbers 31:37WEB
and Yahweh’s tribute of the sheep was six hundred seventy-five.
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Numbers 31:38WEB
The cattle were thirty-six thousand, of which Yahweh’s tribute was seventy-two.
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Numbers 31:39WEB
The donkeys were thirty thousand five hundred, of which Yahweh’s tribute was sixty-one.
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Numbers 31:40WEB
The persons were sixteen thousand, of whom Yahweh’s tribute was thirty-two persons.
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Numbers 31:41WEB
Moses gave the tribute, which was Yahweh’s wave offering, to Eleazar the priest, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Numbers 31:42WEB
Of the children of Israel’s half, which Moses divided off from the men who fought
Numbers 31:43WEB
(now the congregation’s half was three hundred thirty-seven thousand five hundred sheep,
Numbers 31:44WEB
thirty-six thousand head of cattle,
Numbers 31:45WEB
thirty thousand five hundred donkeys,
Numbers 31:46WEB
and sixteen thousand persons),
Numbers 31:47WEB
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 Yahweh’s tabernacle, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Numbers 31:48WEB
The officers who were over the thousands of the army, the captains of thousands, and the captains of hundreds, came near to Moses.
Numbers 31:49WEB
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.
Numbers 31:50WEB
We have brought Yahweh’s offering, what every man found: gold ornaments, armlets, bracelets, signet rings, earrings, and necklaces, to make atonement for our souls before Yahweh.”
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Numbers 31:51WEB
Moses and Eleazar the priest took their gold, even all worked jewels.
Numbers 31:52WEB
All the gold of the wave offering that they offered up to Yahweh, of the captains of thousands, and of the captains of hundreds, was sixteen thousand seven hundred fifty shekels.
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Numbers 31:53WEB
The men of war had taken booty, every man for himself.
Numbers 31:54WEB
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 Yahweh.
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Scripture quotations are from the World English Bible, which is in the public domain.