1And LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 2Avenge the sons of Israel of the Midianites. Afterward thou shall be gathered to thy people. 3And Moses spoke to the people, saying, Arm ye men from among you for the war, that they may go against Midian, to execute LORD's vengeance on Midian. 4From every tribe a thousand, throughout all the tribes of Israel, ye shall send to the war. 5So there were delivered, out of the thousands of Israel, a thousand of every tribe, twelve thousand armed for war. 6And Moses sent them, a thousand of every tribe, to the war, them and 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. 7And they warred against Midian as LORD commanded Moses, and they killed every male. 8And they killed the kings of Midian 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. 9And the sons of Israel took captive the women of Midian and their little ones. And all their cattle, and all their flocks, and all their goods, they took for a prey. 10And all their cities in the places in which they dwelt, and all their encampments, they burnt with fire. 11And they took all the spoil, and all the prey, both of man and of beast. 12And 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 at Jericho. 13And Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and all the rulers of the congregation, went forth to meet them outside the camp. 14And 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. 15And Moses said to them, Have ye saved all the women alive? 16Behold, these caused the sons of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to commit trespass against LORD in the matter of Peor, and so the plague was among the congregation of LORD. 17Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that has known man by lying with him. 18But all the women-children, who have not known man by laying with him, keep alive for yourselves. 19And encamp ye outside the camp seven days. Whoever has killed any person, and whoever has touched any slain, purify yourselves on the third day and on the seventh day, ye and your captives. 20And as to every garment, and all that is made of skin, and all work of goats' [hair], and all things made of wood, ye shall purify yourselves. 21And Eleazar the priest said to the men of war who went to the battle, This is the statute of the law which LORD has commanded Moses: 22only the gold, and the silver, the brass, the iron, the tin, and the lead-- 23everything which may go into fire--ye shall make to go through the fire, and it shall be clean. Nevertheless it shall be purified with the water for impurity. And all that may not go into fire ye shall make to go through the water. 24And ye shall wash your clothes on the seventh day, and ye shall be clean, and afterward ye shall come into the camp. 25And LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 26Take the sum of the prey that was taken, both of man and of beast, thou, and Eleazar the priest, and the heads of the fathers of the congregation, 27and divide the prey into two parts: between the men skilled in war who went out to battle, and all the congregation. 28And levy a tribute to LORD of the men of war who went out to battle: one soul of five hundred, [both] of the persons, and of the oxen, and of the donkeys, and of the flocks. 29Take it of their half, and give it to Eleazar the priest, for LORD's heave-offering. 30And of the sons of Israel's half, thou shall take one drawn out of every fifty, of the persons, of the oxen, of the donkeys, and of the flocks, [even] of all the cattle, and give them to the Levites, who keep the charge of the tabe 31And Moses and Eleazar the priest did as LORD commanded Moses. 32Now the prey, over and above the booty which the men of war took, was six hundred seventy-five thousand sheep, 33and seventy-two thousand oxen, 34and sixty-one thousand donkeys, 35and thirty-two thousand persons in all, of the women who had not known man by laying with him. 36And the half, which was the portion of those who went out to war, was in number three hundred thirty-seven thousand and five hundred sheep. 37And LORD's tribute of the sheep was six hundred and seventy-five. 38And the oxen were thirty-six thousand, of which LORD's tribute was seventy-two. 39And the donkeys were thirty thousand and five hundred, of which LORD's tribute was sixty-one. 40And the persons were sixteen thousand, of whom LORD's tribute was thirty-two persons. 41And Moses gave the tribute, which was LORD's heave-offering, to Eleazar the priest, as LORD commanded Moses. 42And of the sons of Israel's half, which Moses divided off from the men who warred 43(now the congregation's half was three hundred thirty-seven thousand and five hundred sheep, 44and thirty-six thousand oxen, 45and thirty thousand and five hundred donkeys, 46and sixteen thousand persons), 47even of the sons of Israel's half, Moses took one drawn out of every fifty, both of man and of beast, and gave them to the Levites, who kept the charge of the tabernacle of LORD, as LORD commanded Moses. 48And the officers who were over the thousands of the army, the captains of thousands, and the captains of hundreds, came near to Moses. 49And they said to Moses, Thy servants have taken the sum of the men of war that are under our charge, and there lacks not one man of us. 50And we have brought LORD's oblation, what every man has gotten, of jewels of gold, ankle-chains, and bracelets, signet-rings, earrings, and armlets, to make atonement for our souls before LORD. 51And Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold from them, even all wrought jewels. 52And all the gold of the heave-offering that they offered up to LORD, of the captains of thousands, and of the captains of hundreds, was sixteen thousand seven hundred and fifty shekels. 53([For] the men of war had taken booty, every man for himself.) 54And 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 sons of Israel before LORD.