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slain, purify yourselves and your captives on which Moses separated from the men who
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the third day and on the seventh day. Purify fought— now the half belonging to the con-
every garment, everything made of leather, gregation was three hundred and thirty-seven
everything woven of goats’ hair, and every- thousand five hundred sheep, thirty-six thou-
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thing made of wood.” sand cattle, thirty thousand five hundred don-
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21 Then Eleazar the priest said to the men of keys, and sixteen thousand persons— and
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war who had gone to the battle, “This is the or- from the children of Israel’s half Moses took
dinance of the law which the LORD command- one of every fifty, drawn from man and beast,
ed Moses: Only the gold, the silver, the and gave them to the Levites, who kept charge
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bronze, the iron, the tin, and the lead, every- of the tabernacle of the LORD, as the LORD com-
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thing that can endure fire, you shall put manded Moses.
through the fire, and it shall be clean; and it 48 Then the officers who were over thousands
shall be purified with the water of purification. of the army, the captains of thousands and
But all that cannot endure fire you shall put captains of hundreds, came near to Moses;
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through water. And you shall wash your 49 and they said to Moses, “Your servants have
clothes on the seventh day and be clean, and taken a count of the men of war who are under
afterward you may come into the camp.” our command, and not a man of us is missing.
25 Now the LORD spoke to Moses, saying: 50 Therefore we have brought an offering for
26 “Count up the plunder that was taken—of the LORD, what every man found of ornaments
man and beast—you and Eleazar the priest of gold: armlets and bracelets and signet rings
and the chief fathers of the congregation; and earrings and necklaces, to make atone-
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27 and divide the plunder into two parts, ment for ourselves before the LORD.” So
between those who took part in the war, who Moses and Eleazar the priest received the
went out to battle, and all the congregation. gold from them, all the fashioned ornaments.
28 And levy a tribute for the LORD on the men of 52 And all the gold of the offering that they
war who went out to battle: one of every five offered to the LORD, from the captains of thou-
hundred of the persons, the cattle, the don- sands and captains of hundreds, was sixteen
keys, and the sheep; take it from their half, thousand seven hundred and fifty shekels.
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and give it to Eleazar the priest as a heave 53 (The men of war had taken spoil, every man
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offering to the LORD. And from the children for himself.) And Moses and Eleazar the
of Israel’s half you shall take one of every fifty, priest received the gold from the captains of
drawn from the persons, the cattle, the don- thousands and of hundreds, and brought it
keys, and the sheep, from all the livestock, into the tabernacle of meeting as a memorial
and give them to the Levites who keep charge for the children of Israel before the LORD.
of the tabernacle of the LORD.” So Moses and Now the children of Reuben and the
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Eleazar the priest did as the LORD commanded 32 children of Gad had a very great multi-
Moses. tude of livestock; and when they saw the land
32 The booty remaining from the plunder, of Jazer and the land of Gilead, that indeed the
which the men of war had taken, was six region was a place for livestock, the children
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hundred and seventy-five thousand sheep, of Gad and the children of Reuben came and
33 seventy-two thousand cattle, 34 sixty-one spoke to Moses, to Eleazar the priest, and to
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thousand donkeys, and thirty-two thousand the leaders of the congregation, saying,
persons in all, of women who had not known a 3 “Ataroth, Dibon, Jazer, Nimrah, Heshbon,
man intimately. And the half, the portion for Elealeh, Shebam, Nebo, and Beon, the coun-
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those who had gone out to war, was in number try which the LORD defeated before the con-
three hundred and thirty-seven thousand five gregation of Israel, is a land for livestock, and
hundred sheep; and the LORD’s tribute of the your servants have livestock.” Therefore they
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sheep was six hundred and seventy-five. The said, “If we have found favor in your sight, let
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cattle were thirty-six thousand, of which the this land be given to your servants as a pos-
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LORD’s tribute was seventy-two. The donkeys session. Do not take us over the Jordan.”
were thirty thousand five hundred, of which 6 And Moses said to the children of Gad and
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the LORD’s tribute was sixty-one. The persons to the children of Reuben: “Shall your
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were sixteen thousand, of which the LORD’s brethren go to war while you sit here? Now
tribute was thirty-two persons. So Moses why will you discourage the heart of the chil-
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gave the tribute which was the LORD’s heave dren of Israel from going over into the land
offering to Eleazar the priest, as the LORD com- which the LORD has given them? Thus your
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manded Moses. fathers did when I sent them away from Kadesh
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