Apr.
20
Numbers
31, 32
Num
31:1 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
Num
31:2 Avenge the children of Israel of the Midianites: afterward you
shall be gathered to your people.
Num
31:3 Moses spoke to the people, saying, Arm men from among you for
the war, that they may go against Midian, to execute Yahweh's
vengeance on Midian.
Num
31:4 Of every tribe one thousand, throughout all the tribes of
Israel, you shall send to the war.
Num
31:5 So there were delivered, out of the thousands of Israel, a
thousand of every tribe, twelve thousand armed for war.
Num
31:6 Moses sent them, one 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.
Num
31:7 They warred against Midian, as Yahweh commanded Moses; and they
killed every male.
Num
31:8 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.
Num
31:9 The children of Israel took captive the women of Midian and
their little ones; and all their livestock, and all their flocks, and
all their goods, they took for a prey.
Num
31:10 All their cities in the places in which they lived, and all
their encampments, they burnt with fire.
Num
31:11 They took all the spoil, and all the prey, both of man and of
animal.
Num
31:12 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.
Num
31:13 Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and all the princes of the
congregation, went forth to meet them outside of the camp.
Num
31:14 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.
Num
31:15 Moses said to them, Have you saved all the women alive?
Num
31:16 Behold, these caused the children of Israel, through the
counsel of Balaam, to commit trespass against Yahweh in the matter of
Peor, and so the plague was among the congregation of Yahweh.
Num
31:17 Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill
every woman who has known man by lying with him.
Num
31:18 But all the girls, who have not known man by lying with him,
keep alive for yourselves.
Num
31:19 Encamp outside of 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.
Num
31:20 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.
Num
31:21 Eleazar the priest said to the men of war who went to the
battle, This is the statute of the law which Yahweh has commanded
Moses:
Num
31:22 however the gold, and the silver, the brass, the iron, the
tin, and the lead,
Num
31:23 everything that may abide the fire, you 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 doesn't withstand
the fire you shall make to go through the water.
Num
31:24 You shall wash your clothes on the seventh day, and you shall
be clean; and afterward you shall come into the camp.
Num
31:25 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
Num
31:26 Take the sum of the prey that was taken, both of man and of
animal, you, and Eleazar the priest, and the heads of the fathers'
houses of
the congregation;
Num
31:27 and divide the prey into two parts: between the men skilled in
war, who went out to battle, and all the congregation.
Num
31:28 Levy a tribute to Yahweh of the men of war who went out to
battle: one soul of five hundred, both
of the persons, and of the cattle, and of the donkeys, and of the
flocks:
Num
31:29 take it of their half, and give it to Eleazar the priest, for
Yahweh's wave offering.
Num
31:30 Of the children of Israel's half, you shall take one drawn out
of every fifty, of the persons, of the cattle, of the donkeys, and of
the flocks, even
of all the livestock, and give them to the Levites, who perform the
duty of the tabernacle of Yahweh.
Num
31:31 Moses and Eleazar the priest did as Yahweh commanded Moses.
Num
31:32 Now the prey, over and above the booty which the men of war
took, was six hundred seventy-five thousand sheep,
Num
31:33 and seventy-two thousand head of cattle,
Num
31:34 and sixty-one thousand donkeys,
Num
31:35 and thirty-two thousand persons in all, of the women who had
not known man by lying with him.
Num
31:36 The half, which was the portion of those who went out to war,
was in number three hundred thirty-seven thousand five hundred sheep:
Num
31:37 and Yahweh's tribute of the sheep was six hundred
seventy-five.
Num
31:38 The cattle were thirty-six thousand; of which Yahweh's tribute
was seventy-two.
Num
31:39 The donkeys were thirty thousand five hundred; of which
Yahweh's tribute was sixty-one.
Num
31:40 The persons were sixteen thousand; of whom Yahweh's tribute
was thirty-two persons.
Num
31:41 Moses gave the tribute, which was Yahweh's wave offering, to
Eleazar the priest, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
Num
31:42 Of the children of Israel's half, which Moses divided off from
the men who warred
Num
31:43 (now the congregation's half was three hundred thirty-seven
thousand five hundred sheep,
Num
31:44 and thirty-six thousand head of cattle,
Num
31:45 and thirty thousand five hundred donkeys,
Num
31:46 and sixteen thousand persons),
Num
31:47 even of the children of Israel's half, Moses took one drawn
out of every fifty, both of man and of animal, and gave them to the
Levites, who performed the duty of the tabernacle of Yahweh; as
Yahweh commanded Moses.
Num
31:48 The officers who were over the thousands of the army, the
captains of thousands, and the captains of hundreds, came near to
Moses;
Num
31:49 and they said to Moses, Your servants have taken the sum of
the men of war who are under our command, and there lacks not one man
of us.
Num
31:50 We have brought Yahweh's offering, what every man has gotten,
of jewels of gold, armlets, and bracelets, signet rings, earrings,
and necklaces, to make atonement for our souls before Yahweh.
Num
31:51 Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold of them, even all
worked jewels.
Num
31:52 All the gold of the wave offering that they offered up to
Yahweh, of the captains of thousands, and of the captains of
hundreds, was sixteen thousand seven hundred fifty shekels.
Num
31:53 (For
the men of war had taken booty, every man for himself.)
Num
31:54 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 Yahweh.
Num
32:1 Now the children of Reuben and the children of Gad had a very
great multitude of livestock: and when they saw the land of Jazer,
and the land of Gilead, that behold, the place was a place for
livestock;
Num
32:2 the children of Gad and the children of Reuben came and spoke
to Moses, and to Eleazar the priest, and to the princes of the
congregation, saying,
Num
32:3 Ataroth, and Dibon, and Jazer, and Nimrah, and Heshbon, and
Elealeh, and Sebam, and Nebo, and Beon,
Num
32:4 the land which Yahweh struck before the congregation of Israel,
is a land for livestock; and your servants have livestock.
Num
32:5 They said, If we have found favor in your sight, let this land
be given to your servants for a possession; don't bring us over the
Jordan.
Num
32:6 Moses said to the children of Gad, and to the children of
Reuben, Shall your brothers go to the war, and shall you sit here?
Num
32:7 Why do you discourage the heart of the children of Israel from
going over into the land which Yahweh has given them?
Num
32:8 Your fathers did so when I sent them from Kadesh Barnea to see
the land.
Num
32:9 For when they went up to the valley of Eshcol, and saw the
land, they discouraged the heart of the children of Israel, that they
should not go into the land which Yahweh had given them.
Num
32:10 Yahweh's anger was kindled in that day, and he swore, saying,
Num
32:11 Surely none of the men who came up out of Egypt, from twenty
years old and upward, shall see the land which I swore to Abraham, to
Isaac, and to Jacob; because they have not wholly followed me:
Num
32:12 save Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite, and Joshua the
son of Nun; because they have wholly followed Yahweh.
Num
32:13 Yahweh's anger was kindled against Israel, and he made them
wander back and forth in the wilderness forty years, until all the
generation, who had done evil in the sight of Yahweh, was consumed.
Num
32:14 Behold, you have risen up in your fathers' place, an increase
of sinful men, to augment yet the fierce anger of Yahweh toward
Israel.
Num
32:15 For if you turn away from after him, he will yet again leave
them in the wilderness; and you will destroy all this people.
Num
32:16 They came near to him, and said, We will build sheepfolds here
for our livestock, and cities for our little ones:
Num
32:17 but we ourselves will be ready armed to go before the children
of Israel, until we have brought them to their place: and our little
ones shall dwell in the fortified cities because of the inhabitants
of the land.
Num
32:18 We will not return to our houses, until the children of Israel
have inherited every man his inheritance.
Num
32:19 For we will not inherit with them on the other side of the
Jordan, and forward; because our inheritance is fallen to us on this
side of the Jordan eastward.
Num
32:20 Moses said to them, If you will do this thing, if you will arm
yourselves to go before Yahweh to the war,
Num
32:21 and every armed man of you will pass over the Jordan before
Yahweh, until he has driven out his enemies from before him,
Num
32:22 and the land is subdued before Yahweh; then afterward you
shall return, and be guiltless towards Yahweh, and towards Israel;
and this land shall be to you for a possession before Yahweh.
Num
32:23 But if you will not do so, behold, you have sinned against
Yahweh; and be sure your sin will find you out.
Num
32:24 Build cities for your little ones, and folds for your sheep;
and do that which has proceeded out of your mouth.
Num
32:25 The children of Gad and the children of Reuben spoke to Moses,
saying, Your servants will do as my lord commands.
Num
32:26 Our little ones, our wives, our flocks, and all our livestock,
shall be there in the cities of Gilead;
Num
32:27 but your servants will pass over, every man who is armed for
war, before Yahweh to battle, as my lord says.
Num
32:28 So Moses commanded concerning them to Eleazar the priest, and
to Joshua the son of Nun, and to the heads of the fathers' houses
of the tribes of the children of Israel.
Num
32:29 Moses said to them, If the children of Gad and the children of
Reuben will pass with you over the Jordan, every man who is armed to
battle, before Yahweh, and the land shall be subdued before you; then
you shall give them the land of Gilead for a possession:
Num
32:30 but if they will not pass over with you armed, they shall have
possessions among you in the land of Canaan.
Num
32:31 The children of Gad and the children of Reuben answered,
saying, As Yahweh has said to your servants, so will we do.
Num
32:32 We will pass over armed before Yahweh into the land of Canaan,
and the possession of our inheritance shall
remain with us beyond the Jordan.
Num
32:33 Moses gave to them, even to the children of Gad, and to the
children of Reuben, and to the half-tribe of Manasseh the son of
Joseph, the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, and the kingdom of
Og king of Bashan, the land, according to the cities of it with their
borders, even the cities of the surrounding land.
Num
32:34 The children of Gad built Dibon, and Ataroth, and Aroer,
Num
32:35 and Atrothshophan, and Jazer, and Jogbehah,
Num
32:36 and Beth Nimrah, and Beth Haran: fortified cities, and folds
for sheep.
Num
32:37 The children of Reuben built Heshbon, and Elealeh, and
Kiriathaim,
Num
32:38 and Nebo, and Baal Meon, (their names being changed), and
Sibmah: and they gave other names to the cities which they built.
Num
32:39 The children of Machir the son of Manasseh went to Gilead, and
took it, and dispossessed the Amorites who were therein.
Num
32:40 Moses gave Gilead to Machir the son of Manasseh; and he lived
therein.
Num
32:41 Jair the son of Manasseh went and took its towns, and called
them Havvoth Jair.
Num
32:42 Nobah went and took Kenath, and its villages, and called it
Nobah, after his own name.