1And Yehovah spoke to Moses, saying, 2Avenge the children of Israel of the Midianites: afterward you shall be gathered to your people. 3And Moses spoke to the people, saying, Arm men from among you for the war, that they may go against Midian, to execute Yehovah’s vengeance on Midian. 4Of every tribe a thousand, throughout all the tribes of Israel, you 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 Yehovah 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: Balaam also the son of Beor they killed with the sword. 9And the children 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 children 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 princes of the congregation, went out to meet them outside the camp. 14And Moses was angry with the officers of the host, the captains of thousands and the captains of hundreds, who came from the service of the war. 15And Moses said to them, Have you saved all the women alive? 16Behold, these caused the children of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to commit trespass against Yehovah in the matter of Peor, and so the plague was among the congregation of Yehovah. 17Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who has known a man by lying with him. 18But all the young girls, who have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves. 19And encamp 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, you 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, you 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 Yehovah has commanded Moses: 22only the gold, and the silver, the bronze, the iron, the tin, and the lead, 23everything that can endure the fire, you shall make go through the fire, and it shall be clean; nevertheless it shall be purified with the water for impurity: and all that does not endure the fire you shall make go through the water. 24And you shall wash your clothes on the seventh day, and you shall be clean; and afterward you shall come into the camp. 25And Yehovah spoke to Moses, saying, 26Take the sum of the prey that was taken, both of man and of beast, you, and Eleazar the priest, and the heads of the fathers’ houses 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 Yehovah 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 Yehovah’s heave-offering. 30And of the children of Israel’s half, you 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 tabernacle of Yehovah. 31And Moses and Eleazar the priest did as Yehovah commanded Moses. 32Now the prey, over and above the booty which the men of war took, was six hundred and 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 a man by lying with him. 36And the half, which was the portion of those who went out to war, was in number three hundred and thirty-seven thousand five hundred sheep: 37and Yehovah’s tribute of the sheep was six hundred and seventy-five. 38And the oxen were thirty-six thousand; of which Yehovah’s tribute was seventy-two. 39And the donkeys were thirty thousand five hundred; of which Yehovah’s tribute was sixty-one. 40And the persons were sixteen thousand; of whom Yehovah’s tribute was thirty-two persons. 41And Moses gave the tribute, which was Yehovah’s heave-offering, to Eleazar the priest, as Yehovah commanded Moses. 42And of the children of Israel’s half, which Moses divided off from the men who warred 43(now the congregation’s half was three hundred and thirty-seven thousand five hundred sheep, 44and thirty-six thousand oxen, 45and thirty thousand five hundred donkeys, 46and sixteen thousand persons), 47even of the children 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 Yehovah; as Yehovah commanded Moses. 48And the officers who were over the thousands of the host, the captains of thousands, and the captains of hundreds, came near to Moses; 49and they said to Moses, Your servants have taken the sum of the men of war who are under our charge, and not one man of us is missing. 50And we have brought Yehovah’s oblation, what every man has gotten, of jewels of gold, ankle-chains, and bracelets, signet-rings, ear-rings, and armlets, to make atonement for our souls before Yehovah. 51And Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold of them, even all wrought jewels. 52And all the gold of the heave-offering that they offered up to Yehovah, 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 children of Israel before Yehovah.