# Numbers 31

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Translated from Hebrew and Greek with AI, then checked for clarity and fidelity.

1. Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
2. Take vengeance on the Midianites for the sons of Israel. Afterward you will be gathered to your people.
3. Moses spoke to the people, saying, "Arm men from among you for the army, and let them attack Midian to exact Yahweh's vengeance on Midian."
4. Send a thousand from each tribe, from all the tribes of Israel, to the army.
5. From Israel's thousands, one thousand per tribe were supplied, twelve thousand armed troops.
6. Moses sent them to the war, a thousand from each tribe, them and Phinehas 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 made war against Midian, just as Yahweh commanded Moses, and they killed every male.
8. They killed the kings of Midian along with their slain: Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba, five kings of Midian; they also killed Balaam son of Beor with the sword.
9. The Israelites captured the Midianite women and their little ones, and they plundered all their livestock, all their flocks, and all their goods.
10. They burned all their cities in their dwelling places and all their habitations with fire.
11. They took all the spoil and all the prey, both human and animal.
12. They brought the captives, the booty, and the plunder to Moses, to Eleazar the priest, and to the assembly of Israel's sons, to the camp on the plains of Moab, which lie alongside the Jordan at Jericho.
13. Moses, Eleazar the priest, and all the princes of the congregation went out to meet them outside the camp.
14. Moses became angry with the army's commanders, the captains of thousands and captains of hundreds, who came from the battle host.
15. Moses said to them, "Have you kept all the women alive?"
16. Look, these led Israel's sons, through Balaam's counsel, to trespass against Yahweh in the matter of Peor, and the plague struck the congregation of Yahweh.
17. Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who has known a man by lying with a male.
18. But keep alive for yourselves all the little girls among the women who have not known lying with a male.
19. Stay outside the camp seven days—whoever killed a person and whoever touched a slain must cleanse yourselves and your captives on the third day and the seventh day.
20. You shall purify every garment, every leather article, every goats'-hair work, and every wooden article.
21. Eleazar the priest said to the men of the army who went to the battle, "This is the statute of the law that Yahweh commanded Moses:"
22. Only gold, silver, bronze, iron, tin, and lead.
23. Every thing that may endure the fire, you shall make pass through the fire, and it will be clean; nevertheless it shall be purified with the water of impurity, and all that does not endure the fire, you shall make pass through the water.
24. Wash your garments on the seventh day, and you will be clean; afterward come into the camp.
25. Yahweh said to Moses, saying,
26. Take the count of the captive plunder, both people and livestock, you, Eleazar the priest, and the heads of the fathers of the congregation.
27. And divide the prey in half between those grasping the war—who went out to the army—and all the congregation.
28. Raise a tribute to Yahweh from the warriors who went out to the army: one person out of every five hundred, from people, oxen, donkeys, and flocks.
29. From their half take it and give it to Eleazar the priest as an offering to Yahweh.
30. From the Israelites' half, take one portion from every fifty of the people, the cattle, the donkeys, and the flocks, from all the livestock, and give them to the Levites who keep charge of Yahweh's tabernacle.
31. Moses and Eleazar the priest did as Yahweh commanded Moses.
32. The prey, the excess of the spoil plundered by the men of the army, was six hundred seventy-five thousand sheep.
33. and seventy-two thousand cattle,
34. and sixty-one thousand donkeys
35. and thirty-two thousand persons altogether from the women who had not known the bed of a male.
36. The half portion belonging to those who went out with the army—the sheep count—was three hundred thirty-seven thousand five hundred.
37. And the tribute to Yahweh from the sheep was six hundred seventy-five.
38. The cattle numbered thirty-six thousand, and their tribute to Yahweh was seventy-two.
39. The donkeys were thirty thousand five hundred, and their tribute to Yahweh was sixty-one.
40. And the persons totaled sixteen thousand, their tribute to Yahweh thirty-two persons.
41. Moses gave the tribute, Yahweh's heave offering, to Eleazar the priest, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
42. From the half of the children of Israel that Moses separated from the men who went to war.
43. The congregation's half of the sheep was three hundred thirty-seven thousand five hundred.
44. and thirty-six thousand cattle,
45. and thirty thousand five hundred donkeys,
46. and sixteen thousand human souls,
47. Moses took one taken from every fifty out of the Israelites' half—both from people and livestock—and gave them to the Levites who kept the charge of Yahweh's tabernacle, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
48. The officers appointed over the thousands of the army, the captains of thousands and captains of hundreds, approached Moses.
49. They said to Moses, "Your servants have numbered the fighting men under us, and no man among us is missing."
50. We have brought Yahweh's offering, what each man obtained of gold articles—anklets, bracelets, rings, earrings, and pendants—to make atonement for our souls before Yahweh.
51. Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold from them, all the crafted vessels.
52. All the gold of the offering they raised up to Yahweh from the captains of thousands and from the captains of hundreds was sixteen thousand seven hundred fifty shekels.
53. The men of the army had plundered, each man for himself.
54. Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold from the captains of thousands and hundreds and brought it into the tent of meeting as a memorial for the sons of Israel before Yahweh.

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