1 O Senhor disse a Moisés:
2 "Vingue-se dos midianitas pelo que fizeram aos israelitas. Depois disso você será reunido aos seus antepassados".
3 Então Moisés disse ao povo: "Armem alguns dos homens para irem à guerra contra os midianitas e executarem a vingança do Senhor contra eles.
4 Enviem à batalha mil homens de cada tribo de Israel".
5 Doze mil homens armados para a guerra, mil de cada tribo, foram mandados pelos clãs de Israel.
6 Moisés os enviou à guerra, mil de cada tribo, juntamente com Finéias, filho do sacerdote Eleazar, que levou consigo objetos do santuário e as cornetas para o toque de guerra.
7 Lutaram então contra Midiã, conforme o Senhor tinha ordenado a Moisés, e mataram todos os homens.
8 Entre os mortos estavam os cinco reis de Midiã: Evi, Requém, Zur, Hur e Reba. Também mataram à espada Balaão, filho de Beor.
9 Os israelitas capturaram as mulheres e as crianças midianitas e tomaram como despojo todos os rebanhos e bens dos midianitas.
10 Queimaram todas as cidades em que os midianitas haviam se estabelecido, bem como todos os seus acampamentos.
11 Tomaram todos os despojos, incluindo pessoas e animais,
12 e levaram os prisioneiros, homens e mulheres, e os despojos a Moisés, ao sacerdote Eleazar e à comunidade de Israel em seu acampamento, nas campinas de Moabe, do outro lado de Jericó.
13 Moisés, o sacerdote Eleazar e todos os líderes da comunidade saíram para recebê-los fora do acampamento.
14 Mas Moisés indignou-se contra os oficiais do exército que voltaram da guerra, os líderes de milhares e os líderes de centenas.
15 "Vocês deixaram todas as mulheres vivas? ", perguntou-lhes.
16 "Foram elas que seguiram o conselho de Balaão e levaram Israel a ser infiel ao Senhor no caso de Peor, de modo que uma praga feriu a comunidade do Senhor.
17 Agora matem todos os meninos. E matem também todas as mulheres que se deitaram com homem,
18 mas poupem todas as meninas virgens.
19 "Todos vocês que mataram alguém ou que tocaram em algum morto ficarão sete dias fora do acampamento. No terceiro e no sétimo dia vocês deverão purificar-se a si mesmos e aos seus prisioneiros.
20 Purifiquem toda roupa e também tudo o que é feito de couro, de pêlo de bode ou de madeira. "
21 Depois o sacerdote Eleazar disse aos soldados que tinham ido à guerra: "Esta é a exigência da lei que o Senhor ordenou a Moisés:
22 Ouro, prata, bronze, ferro, estanho, chumbo
23 e tudo o que resista ao fogo, vocês terão que passar pelo fogo para purificá-las, mas também deverão purificá-las com a água da purificação. E tudo o que não resistir ao fogo terá que passar pela água.
24 No sétimo dia lavem as suas roupas, e vocês ficarão puros. Depois poderão entrar no acampamento".
25 O Senhor disse a Moisés:
26 "Você, o sacerdote Eleazar e os chefes das famílias da comunidade deverão contar todo o povo e os animais capturados.
27 Dividam os despojos entre os guerreiros que participaram da batalha e o restante da comunidade.
28 Daquilo que os guerreiros trouxeram da guerra, separem como tributo ao Senhor um de cada quinhentos, sejam pessoas, bois, jumentos, ovelhas ou bodes.
29 Tomem esse tributo da metade que foi dada como porção a eles e entreguem-no ao sacerdote Eleazar como a porção do Senhor.
30 Da metade dada aos israelitas, escolham um de cada cinqüenta, sejam pessoas, bois, jumentos, ovelhas ou bodes. Entreguem-nos aos levitas, encarregados de cuidar do tabernáculo do Senhor".
31 Moisés e o sacerdote Eleazar fizeram como o Senhor tinha ordenado a Moisés.
32 Os despojos que restaram das presas tomadas pelos soldados foram 675. 000 ovelhas,
33 72. 000 cabeças de gado,
34 61. 000 jumentos
35 e 32. 000 mulheres virgens.
36 A metade dada aos que lutaram na guerra foi esta: 337. 500 ovelhas,
37 das quais o tributo para o Senhor foram 675;
38 36. 000 cabeças de gado, das quais o tributo para o Senhor foram 72;
39 30. 500 jumentos, dos quais o tributo para o Senhor foram 61;
40 16. 000 pessoas, das quais o tributo para o Senhor foram 32.
41 Moisés deu o tributo ao sacerdote Eleazar como contribuição ao Senhor, conforme o Senhor tinha ordenado a Moisés.
42 A outra metade, pertencente aos israelitas, Moisés separou da dos combatentes;
43 essa era a metade pertencente à comunidade, com 337. 500 ovelhas,
44 36. 000 cabeças de gado,
45 30. 500 jumentos
46 e 16. 000 pessoas.
47 Da metade pertencente aos israelitas, Moisés escolheu um de cada cinqüenta, tanto de pessoas como de animais, conforme o Senhor lhe tinha ordenado, e os entregou aos levitas, encarregados de cuidar do tabernáculo do Senhor.
48 Então os oficiais que estavam sobre as unidades do exército, os líderes de milhares e os líderes de centenas foram a Moisés
49 e lhe disseram: "Seus servos contaram os soldados sob o nosso comando, e não está faltando ninguém.
50 Por isso trouxemos como oferta ao Senhor os artigos de ouro dos quais cada um de nós se apossou: braceletes, pulseiras, anéis de sinete, brincos e colares; para fazer propiciação por nós perante o Senhor".
51 Moisés e o sacerdote Eleazar receberam deles. Todas as jóias de ouro.
52 Todo o ouro dado pelos líderes de milhares e pelos líderes de centenas que Moisés e Eleazar apresentaram como contribuição ao Senhor pesou duzentos quilos.
53 Cada soldado tinha tomado despojos para si mesmo.
54 Moisés e o sacerdote Eleazar receberam o ouro dado pelos líderes de milhares e pelos líderes de centenas e o levaram para a Tenda do Encontro como memorial para que o Senhor se lembrasse dos israelitas.
1 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, 2 "Avenge the children of Israel on the Midianites. Afterward you shall be gathered to your people."
3 Moses spoke to the people, saying, "Arm men from among you for war, that they may go against Midian, to execute Yahweh’s vengeance on Midian. 4 You shall send one thousand out of every tribe, throughout all the tribes of Israel, to the war." 5 So there were delivered, out of the thousands of Israel, a thousand from every tribe, twelve thousand armed for war. 6 Moses sent them, one thousand of every tribe, to the war with 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. 7 They fought against Midian, as Yahweh commanded Moses. They killed every male. 8 They killed the kings of Midian with the rest of their slain: Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba, the five kings of Midian. They also killed Balaam the son of Beor with the sword. 9 The children of Israel took the women of Midian captive with their little ones; and all their livestock, all their flocks, and all their goods, they took as plunder. 10 All their cities in the places in which they lived, and all their encampments, they burned with fire. 11 They took all the captives, and all the plunder, both of man and of animal. 12 They brought the captives with the prey and the plunder, 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. 13 Moses and Eleazar the priest, with all the princes of the congregation, went out to meet them outside of the camp. 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. 15 Moses said to them, "Have you saved all the women alive? 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. 17 Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who has known man by lying with him. 18 But all the girls, who have not known man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.
19 "Encamp outside of the camp for 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. 20 You shall purify every garment, and all that is made of skin, and all work of goats’ hair, and all things made of wood."
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. 22 However the gold, and the silver, the bronze, the iron, the tin, and the lead, 23 everything 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. All that doesn’t withstand the fire you shall make to go through the water. 24 You shall wash your clothes on the seventh day, and you shall be clean. Afterward you shall come into the camp."
25 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, 26 "Count the plunder that was taken, both of man and of animal, you, and Eleazar the priest, and the heads of the fathers’ households of the congregation; 27 and divide the plunder into two parts: between the men skilled in war, who went out to battle, and all the congregation. 28 Levy a tribute to Yahweh 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. 29 Take it from their half, and give it to Eleazar the priest, for Yahweh’s wave offering. 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, of all the livestock, and give them to the Levites, who perform the duty of Yahweh’s tabernacle."
31 Moses and Eleazar the priest did as Yahweh commanded Moses.
32 Now the plunder, over and above the booty which the men of war took, was six hundred seventy-five thousand sheep, 33 seventy-two thousand head of cattle, 34 sixty-one thousand donkeys, 35 and thirty-two thousand persons in all, of the women who had not known man by lying with him. 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; 37 and Yahweh’s tribute of the sheep was six hundred seventy-five. 38 The cattle were thirty-six thousand, of which Yahweh’s tribute was seventy-two. 39 The donkeys were thirty thousand five hundred, of which Yahweh’s tribute was sixty-one. 40 The persons were sixteen thousand, of whom Yahweh’s tribute was thirty-two persons. 41 Moses gave the tribute, which was Yahweh’s wave offering, to Eleazar the priest, as Yahweh commanded Moses. 42 Of the children of Israel’s half, which Moses divided off from the men who fought 43 (now the congregation’s half was three hundred thirty-seven thousand five hundred sheep, 44 thirty-six thousand head of cattle, 45 thirty thousand five hundred donkeys, 46 and sixteen thousand persons), 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 Yahweh’s tabernacle, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
48 The officers who were over the thousands of the army, the captains of thousands, and the captains of hundreds, came near to Moses. 49 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. 50 We have brought Yahweh’s offering, what every man found: gold ornaments, armlets, bracelets, signet rings, earrings, and necklaces, to make atonement for our souls before Yahweh."
51 Moses and Eleazar the priest took their gold, even all worked jewels. 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. 53 The men of war had taken booty, every man for himself. 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.