31Numbers 31

CHAP. XXXI. / 1 The Midianites are spoyled, and Balaam slaine. 13 Moses is wroth with the officers, for sauing the women aliue. 19 How the souldiers with their captiues and spoile, are to be purified.

1And the Lord spake vnto Moses, saying,Select Numbers 31:1

2Auenge the children of Israel of the Midianites: afterward shalt thou be gathered vnto thy people.Select Numbers 31:2

3And Moses spake vnto the people, saying, Arme some of your selues vnto the warre, and let them goe against the Midianites, and auenge the Lord of Midian.Select Numbers 31:3

4Of euery tribe a thousand, throughout all the tribes of Israel, shall ye send to the warre.Select Numbers 31:4

5So there were deliuered out of the thousands of Israel, a thousand of euery tribe, twelue thousand armed for warre.Select Numbers 31:5

6And Moses sent them to the warre, a thousand of euery tribe, them and Phinehas the sonne of Eleazar the Priest, to the warre, with the holy instruments, and the trumpets to blow, in his hand.Select Numbers 31:6

7And they warred against the Midianites, as the Lord commanded Moses, and they slew all the males.Select Numbers 31:7

8And they slew the Kings of Midian, beside the rest of them that were slaine; namely Eui, and Rekem, and Zur, and Hur, and Reba, fiue Kings of Midian; Balaam also the sonne of Beor they slew with the sword.Select Numbers 31:8

9And the children of Israel tooke all the women of Midian captiues, and their little ones, and tooke the spoile of all their cattell, and all their flocks, and all their goods.Select Numbers 31:9

10And they burnt all their cities wherein they dwelt, and all their goodly castles with fire:Select Numbers 31:10

11And they tooke all the spoile, and all the pray, both of men and of beasts.Select Numbers 31:11

12And they brought the captiues, and the pray, and the spoile vnto Moses and Eleazar the Priest, and vnto the Congregation of the children of Israel, vnto the campe at the plaines of Moab, which are by Iordan neere Iericho.Select Numbers 31:12

13And Moses and Eleazar the Priest, and all the Princes of the Congregation went foorth to meete them without the campe.Select Numbers 31:13

14And Moses was wroth with the officers of the hoste, with the captaines ouer thousands, and captaines ouer hundreds, which came from the battel.Select Numbers 31:14

15And Moses said vnto them, Haue ye saued all the women aliue?Select Numbers 31:15

16Behold, these caused the children of Israel, through the counsell of Balaam, to commit trespasse against the Lord in the matter of Peor, and there was a plague among the Congregation of the Lord.Select Numbers 31:16

17Now therefore kill euery male among the little ones, and kill euery woman that hath knowen man, by lying with him.Select Numbers 31:17

18But all the women children that haue not knowen a man by lying with him, keepe aliue for your selues.Select Numbers 31:18

19And doe yee abide without the campe seuen dayes: whosoeuer hath killed any person, and whosoeuer hath touched any slaine, purifie both your selues, and your captiues, on the third day, and on the seuenth day.Select Numbers 31:19

20And purifie all your raiment, and all that is made of skinnes, and all worke of goates haire, and all things made of wood.Select Numbers 31:20

21And Eleazar the Priest said vnto the men of warre which went to the battell, This is the ordinance of the law which the Lord commaunded Moses.Select Numbers 31:21

22Onely the gold, and the siluer, the brasse, the yron, the tinne, and the lead,Select Numbers 31:22

23Euery thing that may abide the fire, yee shall make it goe through the fire, and it shall be cleane: neuerthelesse, it shall be purified with the water of separation: and all that abideth not the fire, yee shall make goe through the water.Select Numbers 31:23

24And ye shall wash your clothes on the seuenth day, and ye shalbe cleane, and afterward yee shall come into the campe.Select Numbers 31:24

25And the Lord spake vnto Moses, saying,Select Numbers 31:25

26Take the summe of the pray, that was taken, both of man and of beast, thou and Eleazar the Priest, and the chiefe fathers of the Congregation:Select Numbers 31:26

27And diuide the pray into two parts, betweene them that tooke the warre vpon them, who went out to battell, and betweene all the Congregation.Select Numbers 31:27

28And leuie a tribute vnto the Lord of the men of warre which went out to battell: one soule of fiue hundred, both of the persons, and of the beeues, and of the asses, and of the sheepe.Select Numbers 31:28

29Take it of their halfe, and giue it vnto Eleazar the Priest, for an heaue offering of the Lord.Select Numbers 31:29

30And of the children of Israels halfe, thou shalt take one portion of fiftie, of the persons, of the beeues, of the asses, and of the flockes, of all maner of beasts, and giue them vnto the Leuites, which keepe the charge of the Tabernacle of the Lord.Select Numbers 31:30

31And Moses and Eleazar the Priest did as the Lord commanded Moses.Select Numbers 31:31

32And the bootie being the rest of the pray which the men of war had caught, was six hundred thousand, and seuenty thousand, and fiue thousand sheepe,Select Numbers 31:32

33And threescore and twelue thousand beeues,Select Numbers 31:33

34And threescore and one thousand asses:Select Numbers 31:34

35And thirtie and two thousand persons in all, of women that had not knowen man by lying with him.Select Numbers 31:35

36And the halfe which was the portion of them that went out to warre, was in number three hundred thousand, and seuen and thirtie thousand, and fiue hundred sheepe.Select Numbers 31:36

37And the Lords tribute of the sheepe was sixe hundred and threescore and fifteene.Select Numbers 31:37

38And the beeues were thirtie and sixe thousand, of which the Lords tribute was threescore and twelue.Select Numbers 31:38

39And the asses were thirtie thousand and fiue hundred, of which the Lords tribute was threescore and one.Select Numbers 31:39

40And the persons were sixteene thousand, of which the Lords tribute was thirtie and two persons.Select Numbers 31:40

41And Moses gaue the tribute which was the Lords heaue offering, vnto Eleazar the Priest, as the Lord commanded Moses.Select Numbers 31:41

42And of the children of Israels halfe, which Moses diuided from the men that warred:Select Numbers 31:42

43(Now the halfe that perteined vnto the Congregation, was three hundred thousand, and thirtie thousand, and seuen thousand, and fiue hundred sheepe:Select Numbers 31:43

44And thirtie and sixe thousand beeues:Select Numbers 31:44

45And thirtie thousand asses, and fiue hundred:Select Numbers 31:45

46And sixteene thousand persons)Select Numbers 31:46

47Euen of the children of Israels halfe, Moses tooke one portion of fiftie, both of man and of beast, and gaue them vnto the Leuites, which kept the charge of the Tabernacle of the Lord, as the Lord commanded Moses.Select Numbers 31:47

48And the officers which were ouer thousands of the hoste, the captaines of thousands, and captaines of hundreds came neere vnto Moses.Select Numbers 31:48

49And they said vnto Moses, Thy seruants haue taken the summe of the men of warre which are vnder our charge, and there lacketh not one man of vs.Select Numbers 31:49

50Wee haue therefore brought an oblation for the Lord, what euerie man hath gotten, of iewels of golde chaines, and bracelets, rings, earerings, and tablets, to make an atonement for our soules before the Lord.Select Numbers 31:50

51And Moses and Eleazar the Priest tooke the gold of them: euen all wrought iewels.Select Numbers 31:51

52And all the gold of the offring that they offered vp to the Lord, of the captaines of thousands, and of the captaines of hundreds, was sixteene thousand, seuen hundred and fiftie shekels.Select Numbers 31:52

53(For the men of warre had taken spoile, euery man for himselfe.)Select Numbers 31:53

54And Moses and Eleazar the Priest tooke the gold of the captaines, of thousands, and of hundreds, and brought it into the Tabernacle of the Congregation, for a memoriall for the children of Israel before the Lord.Select Numbers 31:54