1 En die HERE het met Moses gespreek en gesê:
2 Neem wraak vir die kinders van Israel op die Midianiete; daarna sal jy by jou volksgenote versamel word.
3 Daarop het Moses met die volk gespreek en gesê: Laat manne uit julle midde hul vir die oorlog wapen, dat hulle teen M¡dian kan trek om die wraakgerig van die HERE aan M¡dian te voltrek.
4 duisend vir elke stam van al die stamme van Israel moet julle na die oorlog stuur.
5 Toe is daar uit die duisende van Israel duisend vir elke stam gelewer, twaalf duisend wat vir die oorlog gewapen was.
6 En Moses het hulle na die oorlog gestuur, duisend vir elke stam, hulle en P¡nehas, die seun van die priester Ele sar, na die oorlog, met die heilige voorwerpe en die trompette by hom om alarm te blaas.
7 En hulle het oorlog toe getrek teen M¡dian, soos die HERE Moses beveel het, en al die manlike persone gedood.
8 Ook het hulle die konings van M¡dian gedood by die wat hulle verslaan het: Ewi en Rekem en Sur en Hur en Reba, die vyf konings van M¡dian; ook het hulle B¡leam, die seun van Beor, met die swaard gedood.
9 Maar die kinders van Israel het die vroue van die Midianiete en hulle kinders as gevangenes weggevoer, en al hulle lasdiere en al hulle vee en al hulle rykdom geroof.
10 Verder, al hulle stede in hulle woonplekke en al hulle laers het hulle met vuur verbrand
11 en al die roof geneem en al die buit, mense en diere.
12 Daarna het hulle die gevangenes en die buit en die roof na Moses en die priester Ele sar en na die vergadering van die kinders van Israel gebring in die laer, in die vlaktes van Moab wat by die Jordaan van J,rigo is.
13 En toe Moses en die priester Ele sar en al die owerstes van die vergadering hulle buitekant die laer tegemoetgaan,
14 het Moses kwaad geword vir die aanvoerders van die leër, die owerstes oor duisend en die owerstes oor honderd wat van die veldtog af gekom het.
15 En Moses het vir hulle gesê: Het julle al die vroue laat lewe?
16 Kyk, hulle was, deur die raad van B¡leam, vir die kinders van Israel 'n oorsaak van troubreuk teenoor die HERE in die saak van Peor, sodat die plaag in die vergadering van die HERE was.
17 Maak dan nou dood almal wat van die manlike geslag onder die kinders is; en maak dood elke vrou wat gemeenskap met 'n man gehad het.
18 Maar laat al die kinders onder die vroulike persone wat geen gemeenskap met 'n man gehad het nie, vir julle in die lewe bly.
19 En julle, slaan sewe dae lank 'n kamp op buitekant die laer; elkeen wat 'n mens gedood en elkeen wat aan 'n gesneuwelde geraak het -- julle moet jul op die derde dag en op die sewende dag ontsondig, julle en jul gevangenes.
20 Ook moet julle al die klere en elke ding van leer en alles wat van bokhaar gemaak is, en elke ding van hout ontsondig.
21 En die priester Ele sar het aan die krygsmanne wat na die oorlog getrek het, gesê: Dit is die wetsinsetting wat die HERE Moses beveel het.
22 Net die goud en die silwer, die koper, die yster, die tin en die lood --
23 elke ding wat in die vuur kan kom -- moet julle deur die vuur laat deurgaan, en dit sal rein wees; ewenwel moet dit deur reinigingswater ontsondig word; maar alles wat nie in die vuur kan kom nie, moet julle deur die water laat deurgaan.
24 Julle moet ook jul klere op die sewende dag was; dan sal julle rein wees; en daarna mag julle in die laer kom.
25 Verder het die HERE met Moses gespreek en gesê:
26 Neem die volle getal op van wat as buit weggevoer is, van mense en van diere, jy en die priester Ele sar en die familiehoofde van die vergadering;
27 en verdeel die buit tussen die wat met die oorlog te doen gehad het, wat op kommando uitgetrek het, ,n die hele vergadering.
28 En hef 'n bydrae vir die HERE van die krygsmanne wat na die oorlog uitgetrek het -- een uit elke vyf honderd -- van die mense en van die beeste en van die esels en van die kleinvee.
29 Van hulle helfte moet julle dit neem, en gee dit aan die priester Ele sar as 'n offergawe aan die HERE.
30 Maar uit die helfte van die kinders van Israel moet jy een neem, uitgehaal uit elke vyftig, uit die mense, uit die beeste, uit die esels en die kleinvee, uit al die diere; en jy moet dit aan die Leviete gee wat die diens by die tabernakel van die HERE waarneem.
31 En Moses en die priester Ele sar het gedoen soos die HERE Moses beveel het.
32 En die buit, die oorskot van die roof wat die krygsmanne geneem het, was ses honderd vyf en sewentig duisend stuks kleinvee;
33 en twee en sewentig duisend beeste;
34 en een en sestig duisend esels;
35 en mensesiele, uit die vroulike persone wat geen gemeenskap met 'n man gehad het nie, al die siele was twee en dertig duisend.
36 En die helfte, die deel van hulle wat na die oorlog uitgetrek het, was in getal drie honderd sewe en dertig duisend vyf honderd stuks kleinvee.
37 En die bydrae aan die HERE uit die kleinvee was ses honderd vyf en sewentig.
38 En die beeste was ses en dertig duisend, en die bydrae daarvan aan die HERE twee en sewentig.
39 En die esels was dertig duisend vyf honderd, en die bydrae daarvan aan die HERE een en sestig.
40 En mensesiele was sestien duisend, en die bydrae daarvan aan die HERE twee en dertig siele.
41 En Moses het aan die priester Ele sar die bydrae gegee wat as offergawe aan die HERE bestem was, soos die HERE Moses beveel het.
42 En uit die helfte van die kinders van Israel wat Moses van die vegsmanne afgedeel het --
43 die helfte van die vergadering uit die kleinvee was drie honderd sewe en dertig duisend vyf honderd;
44 en die beeste was ses en dertig duisend;
45 en die esels dertig duisend vyf honderd;
46 en mensesiele sestien duisend --
47 uit die helfte van die kinders van Israel het Moses geneem -- van wat uitgehaal was, een uit elke vyftig, van mense en van diere -- en hy het dit aan die Leviete gegee wat die diens by die tabernakel van die HERE waarneem, soos die HERE Moses beveel het.
48 Toe het die aanvoerders oor die duisende van die leër, die owerstes oor duisend en die owerstes oor honderd, nader gekom na Moses
49 en aan Moses gesê: U dienaars het die volle getal van die krygsmanne opgeneem wat onder ons bevel was, en daarvan word nie een vermis nie.
50 Daarom bring elkeen van ons as offer aan die HERE wat hy aan goue goed gevind het: armkettings en armbande, vingerringe, oorringe en halssierade, om versoening te doen vir ons siele voor die aangesig van die HERE.
51 Toe het Moses en die priester Ele sar die goud, allerhande kunsvoorwerpe, van hulle aangeneem.
52 En al die goud van die offergawe wat hulle aan die HERE afgegee het, was sestien duisend sewe honderd en vyftig sikkels, afkomstig van die owerstes oor duisend en die owerstes oor honderd.
53 Die krygsmanne het elkeen na welgevalle buitgemaak.
54 So het Moses en die priester Ele sar dan die goud van die owerstes oor duisend en oor honderd aangeneem en dit in die tent van samekoms gebring om die kinders van Israel voor die aangesig van die HERE in gedagtenis te bring.
1 Then the Lord said to Moses,
2 Give the Midianites punishment for the wrong they did to the children of Israel: and after that you will go to rest with your people.
3 So Moses said to the people, Let men from among you be armed for war to put into effect against Midian the Lord's punishment on them.
4 From every tribe of Israel send a thousand to the war.
5 So from the thousands of Israel a thousand were taken from every tribe, twelve thousand men armed for war.
6 And Moses sent them out to war, a thousand from every tribe, and with them Phinehas, the son of Eleazar the priest, taking in his hands the vessels of the holy place and the horns for sounding the note of war.
7 And they made war on Midian, as the Lord gave orders to Moses; and they put to death every male.
8 They put the kings of Midian to death with the rest, Evi and Reken and Zur and Hur and Reba, the five kings of Midian: and Balaam, the son of Beor, they put to death with the sword.
9 The women of Midian with their little ones the children of Israel took prisoner; and all their cattle and flocks and all their goods they took for themselves;
10 And after burning all their towns and all their tent-circles,
11 They went away with the goods they had taken, man and beast.
12 And the prisoners and the goods and everything they had taken, they took to Moses and Eleazar the priest and the people of Israel, to the tent-circle in the lowlands of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho.
13 Then Moses and Eleazar the priest and the chiefs of the people went out to them before they had come into the tent-circle.
14 And Moses was angry with the chiefs of the army, the captains of thousands and the captains of hundreds who had come back from the war.
15 And Moses said to them, Why have you kept all the women safe?
16 It was these who, moved by Balaam, were the cause of Israel's sin against the Lord in the question of Peor, because of which disease came on the people of the Lord.
17 So now put every male child to death, and every woman who has had sex relations with a man.
18 But all the female children who have had no sex relations with men, you may keep for yourselves.
19 You yourselves will have to keep outside the tent-circle for seven days, anyone of you who has put any person to death or come near a dead body; and on the third day and on the seventh day make yourselves and your prisoners clean.
20 And every bit of clothing, and anything made of leather or goats' hair or wood, you are to make clean.
21 Then Eleazar the priest said to the men of war who had been to the fight, This is the rule of the law which the Lord has given to Moses:
22 But gold and silver and brass and iron and tin and lead,
23 And anything which may be heated, is to go through the fire and be made clean; but in addition it is to be put in the water of cleaning: and anything which may not go through the fire is to be put in the water.
24 And on the seventh day, after washing your clothing, you will be clean, and then you may come into the tent-circle.
25 And the Lord said to Moses,
26 Get an account of everything which was taken in the war, of man and of beast, you and Eleazar the priest and the heads of families of the people:
27 And let division be made of it into two parts, one for the men of war who went out to the fight, and one for all the people:
28 And from the men of war who went out let there be offered to the Lord one out of every five hundred, from the persons, and from the oxen and asses and sheep:
29 Take this from their part and give it to Eleazar the priest as an offering to be lifted up to the Lord.
30 And from the part given to the children of Israel, take one out of every fifty, from the persons, and from the oxen and asses and sheep, and give it to the Levites who have the care of the House of the Lord.
31 So Eleazar and Moses did as the Lord had given orders to Moses.
32 Now the beasts taken, in addition to what the fighting-men took for themselves, were six hundred and seventy-five thousand sheep,
33 And seventy-two thousand oxen,
34 And sixty-one thousand asses;
35 And thirty-two thousand persons, that is, women who had never had sex relations with a man.
36 And the half given as their part to the men who went to the war, was three hundred and thirty-seven thousand, five hundred sheep,
37 Of which the Lord's part was six hundred and seventy-five.
38 The number of oxen was thirty-six thousand, of which the Lord's part was seventy-two;
39 The number of asses was thirty thousand, five hundred, of which the Lord's part was sixty-one.
40 And the number of persons was sixteen thousand, of which the Lord's part was thirty-two persons.
41 And Moses gave the Lord's part, lifted up as an offering, to Eleazar the priest, as the Lord had given orders to Moses.
42 And from the half given to the children of Israel, which Moses had kept separate from that given to the fighting-men,
43 (Now the people's half was three hundred and thirty-seven thousand, five hundred sheep,
44 And thirty-six thousand oxen,
45 And thirty thousand, five hundred asses,
46 And sixteen thousand persons;)
47 Even from the children of Israel's half, Moses took one out of every fifty, men and beasts, and gave them to the Levites who had the care of the House of the Lord; as the Lord gave orders to Moses.
48 Then the men in authority over the thousands of the army, the captains of thousands and captains of hundreds, came to Moses,
49 And said to him, Your servants have taken note of the number of all the fighting-men under our orders, and every one is present;
50 And we have here an offering for the Lord from what every man took in the war, ornaments of gold, leg-chains and arm-rings, finger-rings, ear-rings, and neck-ornaments, to make our souls free from sin before the Lord.
51 So Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold from them, even all the worked ornaments.
52 And the gold which the captains of thousands and captains of hundreds gave, as an offering to be lifted up before the Lord, came to sixteen thousand, seven hundred and fifty shekels.
53 (For every man of the army had taken goods for himself in the war.)
54 Then Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold given by the captains of thousands and captains of hundreds, and took it into the Tent of meeting, to be a sign in memory of the children of Israel before the Lord.