1Then spake Yahweh unto Moses, saying: 2Exact thou the avenging of the sons of Israel, from the Midianites,and, afterwards, shalt thou be withdrawn unto thy kinsfolk. 3So Moses spake unto the people saying, Arm ye from among you men, for the war, and let them go against Midian, to render the avenging of Yahweh upon Midian. 4A thousand from each tribe,of all the tribes of Israel, shall ye send forth unto the war. 5And there volunteered out of the thousands of Israel, a thousand of each tribe,twelve thousand, armed for war. 6And Moses sent them a thousand of each tribe to the war,them, and Phinehas son of Eleazar the priest, to the war, with the vessels of the sanctuary, and the alarm trumpets, in his hand. 7So they made war upon Midian, as Yahweh had commanded Moses, and slew every male: 8and the kings of Midian, slew they besides their other slain namely, Evi, and Rekem, and Zur, and Hur, and Reba, five kings of Midian,Balaam also, son of Beor, slew they with the sword. 9And the sons of Israel took captive the women of Midian and their little ones,all their cattle also and all their flocks and all their substance, carried they off as a prey; 10all their cities also in their sites, and all their encampments, burned they up with fire. 11Then took they all the spoil, and all the booty,both of man and beast; 12and brought in unto Moses and unto Eleazar the priest and unto the assembly of the sons of Israelthe captives and the booty, and the spoil unto the camp,unto the waste plains of Moab, which are by Jordan, near Jericho. 13And Moses, and Eleazar the priest and all the princes of the assembly, went forth to meet them,unto the outside of the camp. 14Then was Moses sore displeased with the officers of the force,the princes of thousands, and the princes of hundreds who were coming in from the warring host. 15And Moses said unto them,Have ye saved alive every female? 16Lo! they, became unto the sons of Israel, by the advice of Balaam, the cause of daring acts of treachery against Yahweh, over the affair of Peor,and then came the plague against the assembly of Yahweh! 17Now, therefore, slay ye every male among the young,every woman also that hath cohabited with man, slay ye. 18But all the young of womankind that hay, not cohabited with man, preserve alive for yourselves. 19Ye, then, pitch outside the camp, for seven days,whosoever hath killed a person and whoever hath touched the slain, cleanse yourselves (from sin) on the third day and on the seventh day ye and your captives,. 20Every garment also, and every article of skin and every thing made of goats-hair, and every article of wood, shall ye cleanse (from sin). 21Then said Eleazar the priest unto the men of the host, who had been to the war: This, is the statute of the law, which Yahweh hath commanded Moses: 22Surely the gold and the silver,the bronze the iron, the tin and the lead, 23whatsoever thing can go into fire, ye shall pass through fire and it shall be clean, only with the water of separation, shall ye cleanse it (from sin). But whatsoever cannot go into fire, ye shall pass through water. 24And ye shall wash your clothes on the seventh day, and be clean,and after-wards, shall ye come into the camp. 25Then spake Yahweh unto Moses, saying: 26Reckon thou up the sum of the booty that was captured, both of man and of beat,thou and Eleazar the priest, and the ancestral heads of the assembly; 27and divide the booty into two parts, between them who took upon them the war, who went out in the host,and all the assembly. 28Then shalt thou levy a tribute unto Yahwehfrom the men of war, who went forth in the host, one living thing, out of five hundred,of the human beings, and of the herd, and of the asses and of the flock: 29out of their half, shall ye take unto Eleazar the priest as a heave-offering unto Yahweh. 30And out of the half allotted to the sons of Israel, shalt thou take one allotted portion out of fifty of the human beings, of the herd, of the asses and of the flock of all b the cattle,and shalt give them unto the Levites, who keep the charge of the habitation of Yahweh. 31And Moses and Eleazar the priest did,As Yahweh commanded Moses. 32And it came to pass that the booty, over and above the prey which the people of the host had seized, was,of the flock, six hundred and seventy-five thousand; 33and, of the herd, seventy-two thousand; 34and, of the asses, sixty-one thousand; 35and, of the human persons, even of the woman-kind who had not cohabited with man,all the per-sons, thirty-two thousand. 36And the half, the share of them who had gone forth in the host, was,the number of the flockthree hundred and thirty-seven thousand and five hundred; 37and so, the tribute unto Yahweh, out of the flock, wassix hundred and seventy-five; 38and the herd, thirty-six thousand,and the tribute of them unto Yahwehseventy-two; 39and the asses, thirty thousand and five hundred,and the tribute of them unto Yahweh, sixty-one; 40and the human persons, sixteen thousand,and the tribute of them unto Yahweh, thirty-two persons. 41And Moses gave the tributethe heave-offering of Yahweh, unto Eleazar the priest,As Yahweh commanded Moses. 42And, of the half, allotted unto the sons of Israel,which Moses halved away from the men who had gone out in the host, 43the half allotted unto the assembly, wasof the flock, three hundred and thirty-seven thousand, and five hundred; 44and, of the herd, six and thirty thousand; 45and, of asses, thirty thousand and five hundred; 46and, human persons, sixteen thousand. 47So then Moses tookout of the half belonging to the sons of Israel the allotted portion one out of fifty, of the human beings and of the beasts,and gave them unto the Levites, the keepers of the charge of the habitation of Yahweh, As Yahweh commanded Moses. 48Then came near unto Moses the officers who belonged unto the thousands of the host,the princes of thousands and the princes of hundreds; 49and said unto Moses, Thy servants have reckoned up the sum of the men of war who are in our hand,and there is not missed from among us, a man! 50Therefore have we brought near an offering unto Yahweh, what, each man, hath foundarticles of gold, ankle chains and bracelets, rings earrings and buckles,to put a propitiatory-covering over our souls before Yahweh. 51So Moses, and Eleazar the priest took the gold of them,all the wrought articles. 52And all the gold of the heave-offering which they offered up unto Yahweh, wassixteen thousand seven hundred and fifty shekels,of the princes of thousands, and of the princes of hundreds. 53The men of the host, had taken prey, each man for himself. 54So then Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold of the princes of thousands, and hundreds,and brought it into the tent of meeting, as a memorial for the sons of Israel before Yahweh.