1The Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

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2"Avenge the children of Israel for the Midianites. Afterward you shall be gathered to your people."

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Numbers 27:13, Numbers 27:13, Revelation 6:10, Judges 2:10, Numbers 25:14

3Moses spoke to the people, saying, "Arm men from among you for the war, that they may go against Midian, to execute the Lord's vengeance on Midian.

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Leviticus 26:25, Leviticus 26:25, Numbers 25:13, Exodus 17:9, Exodus 17:13

4Of every tribe one thousand, throughout all the tribes of Israel, you shall send to the war."

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Leviticus 26:8, 1 Samuel 14:6, Judges 7:2, Leviticus 26:8, 1 Samuel 14:6

5So there were delivered, out of the thousands of Israel, a thousand of every tribe, twelve thousand armed for war.

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6Moses 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.

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Numbers 14:44, Numbers 14:44, Numbers 10:8, Numbers 10:9, Numbers 10:8

7They warred against Midian, as the Lord commanded Moses; and they killed every male.

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Judges 21:11, 1 Kings 11:15, 1 Kings 11:16, Judges 21:11, 1 Kings 11:15

8They 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.

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Joshua 13:21, Joshua 13:22, Joshua 13:21, Joshua 13:22, Numbers 25:15

9The 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.

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2 Chronicles 28:5, 2 Chronicles 28:8, 2 Chronicles 28:10, Deuteronomy 20:14, Numbers 31:15

10All their cities in the places in which they lived, and all their encampments, they burnt with fire.

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1 Samuel 30:1, Genesis 25:16, 1 Kings 9:16, Revelation 18:8, Isaiah 1:7

11They took all the spoil, and all the prey, both of man and of animal.

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Deuteronomy 20:14, Deuteronomy 20:14, Joshua 8:2, Joshua 8:2

12They 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.

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Numbers 22:1, Numbers 22:1

13Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and all the princes of the congregation, went forth to meet them outside of the camp.

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1 Samuel 15:12, Genesis 14:17, Numbers 31:22, Numbers 31:24, 1 Samuel 30:21

14Moses 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.

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1 Samuel 15:13, 1 Samuel 15:14, Numbers 12:3, Exodus 32:22, 1 Kings 20:42

15Moses said to them, "Have you saved all the women alive?

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1 Samuel 15:3, 1 Samuel 15:3, Jeremiah 48:10, Deuteronomy 2:34, Jeremiah 48:10

16Behold, these caused the children of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to commit trespass against the Lord in the matter of Peor, and so the plague was among the congregation of the Lord.

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Numbers 25:1, Numbers 25:9, Numbers 25:1, Numbers 25:9, 2 Peter 2:15

17Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who has known man by lying with him.

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Deuteronomy 20:16, Deuteronomy 20:18, Judges 21:11, Judges 21:12, Deuteronomy 7:2

18But all the girls, who have not known man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.

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Deuteronomy 21:10, Deuteronomy 21:14, Deuteronomy 21:10, Deuteronomy 21:14, Deuteronomy 20:14

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.

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Numbers 5:2, Numbers 19:11, Numbers 19:22, Numbers 5:2, Numbers 19:11

20As 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."

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Numbers 19:14, Numbers 19:16, Genesis 35:2, Numbers 19:22, Exodus 19:10

21Eleazar the priest said to the men of war who went to the battle, "This is the statute of the law which the Lord has commanded Moses:

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Numbers 30:16, Numbers 30:16

22however the gold, and the silver, the brass, the iron, the tin, and the lead,

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23everything that may withstand 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.

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Numbers 19:9, Numbers 19:9, Numbers 19:17, Numbers 19:17, 1 Corinthians 3:13

24You shall wash your clothes on the seventh day, and you shall be clean; and afterward you shall come into the camp."

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Leviticus 11:25, Leviticus 11:25, Leviticus 15:13, Numbers 19:19, Leviticus 14:9

25The Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

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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' households of the congregation;

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27and divide the prey into two parts: between the men skilled in war, who went out to battle, and all the congregation.

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Joshua 22:8, Joshua 22:8, 1 Samuel 30:24, 1 Samuel 30:25, Psalms 68:12

28Levy a tribute to the Lord of the men of war who went out to battle: one soul of five hundred; of the persons, of the cattle, of the donkeys, and of the flocks.

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Numbers 18:26, Numbers 18:26, Numbers 31:47, Numbers 31:30, Numbers 31:47

29Take it of their half, and give it to Eleazar the priest, for the Lord's wave offering.

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Deuteronomy 12:12, Deuteronomy 12:19, Numbers 18:26, Exodus 29:27, Deuteronomy 12:12

30Of 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, of all the livestock, and give them to the Levites, who perform the duty of the tabernacle of the Lord."

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Numbers 3:25, Numbers 3:7, Numbers 3:8, Numbers 3:31, Numbers 3:25

31Moses and Eleazar the priest did as the Lord commanded Moses.

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32Now the prey, over and above the booty which the men of war took, was six hundred seventy-five thousand sheep,

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33and seventy-two thousand head of cattle,

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34and sixty-one thousand donkeys,

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35and thirty-two thousand persons in all, of the women who had not known man by lying with him.

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36The half, which was the portion of those who went out to war, was in number three hundred thirty-seven thousand five hundred sheep:

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37and the Lord's tribute of the sheep was six hundred seventy-five.

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38The cattle were thirty-six thousand; of which the Lord's tribute was seventy-two.

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39The donkeys were thirty thousand five hundred; of which the Lord's tribute was sixty-one.

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40The persons were sixteen thousand; of whom the Lord's tribute was thirty-two persons.

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41Moses gave the tribute, which was the Lord's wave offering, to Eleazar the priest, as the Lord commanded Moses.

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Numbers 18:8, Numbers 18:19, Numbers 18:8, Numbers 18:19, Matthew 10:10

42Of the children of Israel's half, which Moses divided off from the men who warred

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43(now the congregation's half was three hundred thirty-seven thousand five hundred sheep,

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44and thirty-six thousand head of cattle,

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45and thirty thousand five hundred donkeys,

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46and sixteen thousand persons),

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47even 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 the Lord; as the Lord commanded Moses.

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Numbers 31:30, Numbers 31:30, Luke 10:1, Luke 10:8, Isaiah 56:10

48The officers who were over the thousands of the army, the captains of thousands, and the captains of hundreds, came near to Moses;

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49and 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.

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John 18:9, 1 Samuel 30:18, 1 Samuel 30:19, John 18:9, 1 Samuel 30:18

50We have brought the Lord'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 the Lord."

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Exodus 30:12, Exodus 30:12, Exodus 30:15, Exodus 30:16, Exodus 30:15

51Moses and Eleazar the priest took their gold, even all worked jewels.

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Numbers 7:2, Numbers 7:6, Numbers 7:2, Numbers 7:6

52All the gold of the wave offering that they offered up to the Lord, of the captains of thousands, and of the captains of hundreds, was sixteen thousand seven hundred fifty shekels.

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53(The men of war had taken booty, every man for himself.)

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Deuteronomy 20:14, Deuteronomy 20:14, Numbers 31:32, Numbers 31:32

54Moses 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 the Lord.

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Exodus 30:16, Exodus 30:16, Zechariah 6:14, Zechariah 6:14, Luke 22:19