04:031:009 And the children of Israel took all the women of Midian
captives, and their little ones, and took the spoil of all their
cattle, and all their flocks, and all their goods.
04:031:010 And they burnt all their cities wherein they dwelt, and all
their goodly castles, with fire.
04:031:011 And they took all the spoil, and all the prey, both of men
and of beasts.
04:031:012 And they brought the captives, and the prey, and the spoil,
unto Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and unto the congregation of the
children of Israel, unto the camp at the plains of Moab, which are by
Jordan near Jericho.
04:031:013 And Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and all the princes of
the congregation, went forth to meet them without the camp.
04:031:014 And Moses was wroth with the officers of the host, with the
captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, which came from
the battle.
04:031:015 And Moses said unto them, Have ye saved all the women alive?
04:031:016 Behold, these caused the children of Israel, through the
counsel of Balaam, to commit trespass against the LORD in the matter of
Peor, and there was a plague among the congregation of the LORD.
04:031:017 Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and
kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him.
04:031:018 But all the women children, that have not known a man by
lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.
04:031:019 And do ye abide without the camp seven days: whosoever hath
killed any person, and whosoever hath touched any slain, purify both
yourselves and your captives on the third day, and on the seventh day.
04:031:020 And purify all your raiment, and all that is made of skins,
and all work of goats' hair, and all things made of wood.
04:031:021 And Eleazar the priest said unto the men of war which went
to the battle, This is the ordinance of the law which the LORD
commanded Moses;
04:031:022 Only the gold, and the silver, the brass, the iron, the tin,
and the lead,
04:031:023 Every thing that may abide the fire, ye shall make it go
through the fire, and it shall be clean: nevertheless it shall be
purified with the water of separation: and all that abideth not the
fire ye shall make go through the water.
04:031:024 And ye shall wash your clothes on the seventh day, and ye
shall be clean, and afterward ye shall come into the camp.
04:031:025 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
04:031:026 Take the sum of the prey that was taken, both of man and of
beast, thou, and Eleazar the priest, and the chief fathers of the
congregation:
04:031:027 And divide the prey into two parts; between them that took
the war upon them, who went out to battle, and between all the
congregation:
04:031:028 And levy a tribute unto the LORD of the men of war which
went out to battle: one soul of five hundred, both of the persons, and
of the beeves, and of the asses, and of the sheep:
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