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The Slaughter of Midian |
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| Numbers 31:1 |
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Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, |
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| Numbers 31:2 |
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"Take full vengeance for the sons of Israel
on the Midianites; afterward you will be gathered to your people." |
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| Numbers 31:3 |
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Moses spoke to the people, saying, "Arm men
from among you for the war, that they may go against Midian to execute the LORD'S
vengeance on Midian. |
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| Numbers 31:4 |
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A thousand from each tribe of all the tribes
of Israel you shall send to the war." |
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| Numbers 31:5 |
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So there were furnished from the thousands of
Israel, a thousand from each tribe, twelve thousand armed for war. |
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| Numbers 31:6 |
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Moses sent them, a thousand from each tribe,
to the war, and Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, to the war with them,
and the holy vessels and the trumpets for the alarm in his hand. |
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| Numbers 31:7 |
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So they made war against Midian, just as the
LORD had commanded Moses, and they killed every male. |
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| Numbers 31:8 |
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They killed the kings of Midian along with the
rest of their slain: Evi and Rekem and Zur and Hur and Reba, the five kings of
Midian; they also killed Balaam the son of Beor with the sword. |
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| Numbers 31:9 |
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The sons of Israel captured the women of Midian
and their little ones; and all their cattle and all their flocks and all their
goods they plundered. |
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| Numbers 31:10 |
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Then they burned all their cities where they
lived and all their camps with fire. |
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| Numbers 31:11 |
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They took all the spoil and all the prey, both
of man and of beast. |
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| Numbers 31:12 |
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They brought the captives and the prey and the
spoil to Moses, and to Eleazar the priest and to the congregation of the sons
of Israel, to the camp at the plains of Moab, which are by the Jordan opposite
Jericho. |
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| Numbers 31:13 |
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Moses and Eleazar the priest and all the leaders
of the congregation went out to meet them outside the camp. |
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| Numbers 31:14 |
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Moses was angry with the officers of the army,
the captains of thousands and the captains of hundreds, who had come from service
in the war. |
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| Numbers 31:15 |
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And Moses said to them, "Have you spared all
the women? |
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| Numbers 31:16 |
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Behold, these caused the sons of Israel, through
the counsel of Balaam, to trespass against the LORD in the matter of Peor, so
the plague was among the congregation of the LORD. |
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| Numbers 31:17 |
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Now therefore, kill every male among the little
ones, and kill every woman who has known man intimately. |
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| Numbers 31:18 |
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But all the girls who have not known man intimately,
spare for yourselves. |
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| Numbers 31:19 |
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And you, camp outside the camp seven days; whoever
has killed any person and whoever has touched any slain, purify yourselves, you
and your captives, on the third day and on the seventh day. |
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| Numbers 31:20 |
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You shall purify for yourselves every garment
and every article of leather and all the work of goats' hair, and all articles
of wood." |
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| Numbers 31:21 |
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Then Eleazar the priest said to the men of war
who had gone to battle, "This is the statute of the law which the LORD has commanded
Moses: |
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| Numbers 31:22 |
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only the gold and the silver, the bronze, the
iron, the tin and the lead, |
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| Numbers 31:23 |
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everything that can stand the fire, you shall
pass through the fire, and it shall be clean, but it shall be purified with water
for impurity. But whatever cannot stand the fire you shall pass through the water. |
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| Numbers 31:24 |
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And you shall wash your clothes on the seventh
day and be clean, and afterward you may enter the camp." |
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Division of the Booty |
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| Numbers 31:25 |
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Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, |
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| Numbers 31:26 |
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"You and Eleazar the priest and the heads of
the fathers' households of the congregation take a count of the booty that was
captured, both of man and of animal; |
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| Numbers 31:27 |
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and divide the booty between the warriors who
went out to battle and all the congregation. |
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| Numbers 31:28 |
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Levy a tax for the LORD from the men of war
who went out to battle, one in five hundred of the persons and of the cattle and
of the donkeys and of the sheep; |
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| Numbers 31:29 |
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take it from their half and give it to Eleazar
the priest, as an offering to the LORD. |
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| Numbers 31:30 |
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From the sons 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 sheep, from all the animals, and give them to the Levites who keep charge
of the tabernacle of the LORD." |
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| Numbers 31:31 |
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Moses and Eleazar the priest did just as the
LORD had commanded Moses. |
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| Numbers 31:32 |
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Now the booty that remained from the spoil which
the men of war had plundered was 675,000 sheep, |
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| Numbers 31:33 |
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and 72,000 cattle, |
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| Numbers 31:34 |
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and 61,000 donkeys, |
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| Numbers 31:35 |
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and of human beings, of the women who had not
known man intimately, all the persons were 32,000. |
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| Numbers 31:36 |
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The half, the portion of those who went out
to war, was as follows: the number of sheep was 337,500, |
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| Numbers 31:37 |
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and the LORD'S levy of the sheep was 675; |
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| Numbers 31:38 |
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and the cattle were 36,000, from which the LORD'S
levy was 72; |
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| Numbers 31:39 |
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and the donkeys were 30,500, from which the
LORD'S levy was 61; |
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| Numbers 31:40 |
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and the human beings were 16,000, from whom
the LORD'S levy was 32 persons. |
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| Numbers 31:41 |
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Moses gave the levy which was the LORD'S offering
to Eleazar the priest, just as the LORD had commanded Moses. |
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| Numbers 31:42 |
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As for the sons of Israel's half, which Moses
separated from the men who had gone to war-- |
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| Numbers 31:43 |
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now the congregation's half was 337,500 sheep, |
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| Numbers 31:44 |
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and 36,000 cattle, |
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| Numbers 31:45 |
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and 30,500 donkeys, |
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| Numbers 31:46 |
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and the human beings were 16,000-- |
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| Numbers 31:47 |
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and from the sons of Israel's half, Moses took
one drawn out of every fifty, both of man and of animals, and gave them to the
Levites, who kept charge of the tabernacle of the LORD, just as the LORD had commanded
Moses. |
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| Numbers 31:48 |
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Then the officers who were over the thousands
of the army, the captains of thousands and the captains of hundreds, approached
Moses, |
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| Numbers 31:49 |
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and they said to Moses, "Your servants have
taken a census of men of war who are in our charge, and no man of us is missing. |
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| Numbers 31:50 |
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So we have brought as an offering to the LORD
what each man found, articles of gold, armlets and bracelets, signet rings, earrings
and necklaces, to make atonement for ourselves before the LORD." |
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| Numbers 31:51 |
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Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold from
them, all kinds of wrought articles. |
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| Numbers 31:52 |
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All the gold of the offering which they offered
up to the LORD, from the captains of thousands and the captains of hundreds, was
16,750 shekels. |
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| Numbers 31:53 |
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The men of war had taken booty, every man for
himself. |
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| Numbers 31:54 |
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So Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold
from the captains of thousands and of hundreds, and brought it to the tent of
meeting as a memorial for the sons of Israel before the LORD. |
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