1 And YHWH spoke to Moses, saying, 2 “Execute the vengeance of the sons of Israel against the Midianites—afterward you will be gathered to your people.” 3 And Moses spoke to the people, saying, “Arm men from among you for the war, and they will be against Midian, to put the vengeance of YHWH on Midian. 4 1,000 for a tribe—you send 1,000 for a tribe, of all the tribes of Israel, to the war.” 5 And there were given out of the thousands of Israel 1,000 for a tribe—12,000 armed ones for war. 6 And Moses sent them, 1,000 for a tribe, to the war. He sent them and Phinehas son of Eleazar the priest to the war, with the holy vessels and the trumpets of shouting in his hand. 7 And they warred against Midian, as YHWH had commanded Moses, and killed every male. 8 And they killed the kings of Midian besides their pierced ones: Evi, and Rekem, and Zur, and Hur, and Reba—five kings of Midian. And they had killed Balaam son of Beor with the sword. 9 And the sons of Israel took the women of Midian and their infants captive. And they plundered all their livestock, and all their substance, and all their wealth. 10 And they burned all their cities, with their habitations, and all their towers, with fire. 11 And they took all the spoil and all the prey, among man and among beast. 12 And they brought in 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, to the plains of Moab, which were by the Jordan, near Jericho. 13 And Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and all the princes of the congregation, went out to meet them, to the outside of the camp, 14 and Moses was angry against the inspectors of the force, chiefs of the thousands, and chiefs of the hundreds, who were coming in from the warfare of battle. 15 And Moses said to them, “Have you kept every female alive? 16 Look, they will be to the sons of Israel, through the word of Balaam, to cause a trespass against YHWH in the matter of Peor, and the plague will be in the congregation of YHWH. 17 And now, kill every male among the infants, indeed, kill every woman knowing a man by the laying of a male. 18 And all the infants among the women who have not known the laying of a male you will keep alive for yourselves. 19 And you, encamp at the outside of the camp for seven days. Any who has killed a person, and any who has come against a pierced one, cleanse yourselves on the third day and on the seventh day—you and your captives. 20 And every garment, and every skin vessel, and every work of goats’ hair, and every wooden vessel, you yourselves cleanse.” 21 And Eleazar the priest said to the men of war who went to battle, “This will be the statute of the law which YHWH has commanded Moses: 22 only the gold, and the silver, the bronze, the iron, the tin, and the lead, 23 everything which may go into fire, you cause to pass over through fire, and it will be clean. It will be surely cleansed with the water of separation. And all that may not go into fire, you cause to pass over through water. 24 And you will wash your garments on the seventh day and will be clean, and afterward you come into the camp.” 25 And YHWH spoke to Moses, saying, 26 “Take up the sum of the prey of the captives, among man and among beast, you, and Eleazar the priest, and the heads of the fathers of the congregation. 27 And you will halve the prey between those handling the battle, who went out to the war, and all the congregation. 28 And you will raise a tribute to YHWH from the men of battle, who went out to the war, one body out of 500, of man, and of the herd, and of the donkeys, and of the flock. 29 You will take from their half and give it to Eleazar the priest as a raised-offering of YHWH. 30 And from the sons of Israel’s half you take one possession out of 50, of man, of the herd, of the donkeys, and of the flock, of all the livestock, and you will give them to the Levites keeping the charge of the Dwelling Place of YHWH.” 31 And Moses did—Eleazar the priest also—as YHWH had commanded Moses. 32 And the prey, the remainder of the spoil which the people of the host had spoiled, was 675,000 of the flock. 33 And 72,000 of the herd. 34 And 61,000 donkeys. 35 And of mankind—of the women who had not known the laying of a male—all the persons were 32,000. 36 And the half, the portion of those who went out into the war, was in number 337,500 of the flock. 37 And the tribute to YHWH of the sheep was 675. 38 And the herd was 36,000, and their tribute to YHWH was 72. 39 And the donkeys were 30,500, and their tribute to YHWH was 61. 40 And of mankind were 16,000, and their tribute to YHWH was 32 persons. 41 And Moses gave the tribute—YHWH’s raised-offering—to Eleazar the priest, as YHWH had commanded Moses. 42 And of the sons of Israel’s half, which Moses halved from the men who war— 43 and the congregation’s half was 337,500 of the flock. 44 And 36,000 of the herd. 45 And 30,500 donkeys. 46 And 16,000 of mankind— 47 Moses took from the sons of Israel’s half one possession from the 50, of man and of beast, and gave them to the Levites keeping the charge of the Dwelling Place of YHWH, as YHWH had commanded Moses. 48 And the inspectors whom the thousands of the host had (heads of the thousands and heads of the hundreds), drew near to Moses, 49 and they said to Moses, “Your servants have taken up the sum of the men of war who were with us, and not a man of us has been missed. 50 And we brought YHWH’s offering near, each of that which he had found of vessels of gold—chain, and bracelet, seal-ring, ear-ring, and bead—to make atonement for ourselves before YHWH.” 51 And Moses received—Eleazar the priest also—the gold from them, every vessel of workmanship. 52 And all the gold of the raised-offering which they had lifted up to YHWH was 16,750 shekels, from heads of the thousands and from heads of the hundreds. 53 (The men of the host had each taken spoil for himself). 54 And Moses took—Eleazar the priest also—the gold from the heads of the thousands and of the hundreds, and they brought it into the Tent of Meeting as a memorial for the sons of Israel before YHWH.