1 Disse Jeová a Moisés:2 Vinga os filhos de Israel dos midianitas; depois serás recolhido ao teu povo.3 Então disse Moisés ao povo: Armai homens dentre vós para a guerra, a fim de que saiam contra Midiã, para executarem a vingança de Jeová contra eles.4 Enviareis à guerra mil homens de cada tribo entre todas as tribos de Israel.5 Assim dos milhares de Israel foram entregues mil homens de cada tribo, doze mil armados para a guerra.6 Moisés os enviou à guerra, mil de cada tribo, com Finéias, filho do sacerdote Eleazar, o qual tinha na mão os objetos sagrados e as trombetas para tocar alarme.7 Pelejaram contra Midiã, como Jeová ordenou a Moisés; e mataram todos os homens.8 Com os que foram mortos deles mataram também aos reis de Midiã: a saber, Evi, Requém, Zur, Hur e Reba, cinco reis de Midiã; mataram com a espada igualmente a Balaão, filho de Beor.9 Os filhos de Israel levaram cativas as mulheres de Midiã com os seus pequeninos; e despojaram-nos de todos os seus gados, de todos os seus rebanhos e de todos os seus bens.10 Queimaram-lhes a fogo todas as cidades, em que habitavam, e todos os acampamentos.11 Levaram todo o despojo e toda a presa, tanto de homens como de animais.12 Trouxeram os cativos e a presa e o despojo a Moisés e ao sacerdote Eleazar e à congregação dos filhos de Israel, ao arraial nas planícies de Moabe, que estão junto ao Jordão, na altura de Jericó.13 Saíram a recebê-los fora do arraial Moisés, e o sacerdote Eleazar, e todos os príncipes da congregação.14 Indignou-se Moisés contra os oficiais do exército, capitães dos milhares e capitães das centenas, que vinham do serviço da guerra.15 Disse-lhes Moisés: Deixastes viver todas as mulheres?16 Eis que estas, por conselho de Balaão, fizeram que os filhos de Israel pecassem contra Jeová no negócio de Peor, e assim houve a praga entre a congregação de Jeová.17 Agora matai a todos os machos entre os pequeninos, e matai as mulheres que conheceram homem, deitando-se com ele.18 Porém as meninas que não conheceram homem, deitando-se com ele, deixai-as viver para vós.19 Acampai-vos fora do arraial por sete dias; quem de vós tiver matado alguma pessoa, e quem tiver tocado em algum morto, ao terceiro dia e ao sétimo dia purificai-vos a vós e aos vossos cativos.20 No tocante a todo o vestido, e a tudo o que se faz de peles, e a toda a obra de pêlos de cabras, e a tudo o que se faz de madeira, vos purificareis a vós mesmos.21 Então Eleazar, o sacerdote, disse aos homens de guerra que foram à peleja: Este é o estatuto da lei que Jeová ordenou a Moisés:22 o ouro, a prata, o cobre, o ferro, o estanho e o chumbo,23 tudo o que pode resistir ao fogo, fá-lo-eis passar pelo fogo, e ficará limpo, todavia será purificado com a água de purificação; e tudo o que não pode resistir o fogo, fá-lo-eis passar pela água.24 Lavareis os vossos vestidos ao sétimo dia, e estareis limpos, e depois entrareis no arraial.25 Disse Jeová a Moisés:26 Tira a soma da presa que foi tomada, tanto de homens como de animais, tu, e o sacerdote Eleazar, e os cabeças das casas dos pais da congregação.27 Divide a presa em duas partes iguais, entre os homens versados na guerra, que saíram à peleja, e toda a congregação;28 toma um tributo para Jeová dos homens de guerra, que saíram à peleja; um em quinhentos, assim dos homens, como dos bois, e dos jumentos e dos rebanhos.29 Toma-o da sua metade, e dá-o ao sacerdote Eleazar para a oferta alçada a Jeová.30 Da metade que pertence aos filhos de Israel, tomarás um de cada cinqüenta, dos homens, dos bois, dos jumentos, dos rebanhos, e de todo o gado, e dá-los-ás aos levitas, que cumprem o serviço que é devido ao tabernáculo de Jeová.31 Fizeram Moisés e Eleazar, o sacerdote, como Jeová ordenou a Moisés.32 Ora foi a presa que restava do despojo que tomaram os homens de guerra, seiscentas e setenta e cinco mil ovelhas,33 setenta e dois mil bois,34 sessenta e um mil jumentos,35 e trinta e duas mil pessoas ao todo, das mulheres que não tinham conhecido homem, deitando-se com ele.36 A metade, que era a porção dos que saíram à guerra, foi em número de trezentas e trinta e sete mil e quinhentas ovelhas;37 das ovelhas foi o tributo para Jeová seiscentas e setenta e cinco.38 Os bois foram trinta e seis mil, dos quais foi o tributo para Jeová setenta e dois.39 Os jumentos foram trinta mil e quinhentos, dos quais foi o tributo para Jeová sessenta e um.40 As pessoas foram dezesseis mil, das quais foi o tributo para Jeová trinta e duas pessoas.41 Então Moisés deu o tributo, que era a oferta alçada para Jeová, ao sacerdote Eleazar, como Jeová ordenou a Moisés.42 Da metade que era dos filhos de Israel, separado por Moisés da dos homens que pelejaram43 (ora foi a metade que era da congregação, trezentas e trinta e sete mil e quinhentas ovelhas,44 trinta e seis mil bois,45 trinta mil e quinhentos jumentos,46 e dezesseis mil pessoas);47 sim da metade que era dos filhos de Israel, tomou Moisés um de cada cinqüenta, tanto dos homens como dos animais, e deu-os aos levitas que cumprem o serviço que é devido ao tabernáculo de Jeová; como Jeová ordenou a Moisés.48 Então chegaram-se a Moisés os oficiais que estavam sobre os milhares do exército, os capitães de mil, e os capitães de cem;49 e disseram-lhe: Teus servos tiraram a soma dos homens de guerra que estiveram debaixo da nossa autoridade; e não falta nenhum de nós.50 Pelo que trouxemos a oblação de Jeová, o que cada um achou, de objetos de ouro, ornamentos para o braço, braceletes, anéis, arrecadas e colares, para fazermos expiação por nós mesmos diante de Jeová.51 Moisés e o sacerdote Eleazar receberam deles o ouro, a saber, os objetos feitos de ouro.52 Foi todo o ouro da oferta alçada que os capitães de mil e os capitães de cem ofereceram a Jeová, dezesseis mil e setecentos e cinqüenta siclos.53 (Pois os homens de guerra haviam tomado despojo, cada um para si).54 Moisés e o sacerdote Eleazar receberam o ouro dos capitães de mil e dos capitães de cem, e meteram-no na tenda da revelação para memorial dos filhos de Israel diante de Jeová.

1 Jehovah said to Moses:2 »Get even with the Midianites for what they did to the Israelites. After that you will join your ancestors in death.«3 Moses said to the people: »Your men must get ready to go to war against the Midianites. Jehovah will use them to get even with Midian.4 »Send one thousand men from each of the tribes of Israel.«5 Thus one thousand men from each tribe were supplied from the divisions of Israel, twelve thousand men ready for war.6 Moses sent them off to war. There were one thousand men from each tribe along with Phinehas, son of the priest Eleazar. Phinehas took with him the holy articles and the trumpets for the fanfare.7 They went to war against Midian, as Jehovah commanded Moses, and killed every man.8 Included in those killed were the five kings of Midian-Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba. They also killed Balaam, son of Beor, in battle.9 The Israelites took the Midianite women and children as prisoners of war. They also took all their animals, their livestock, and their valuables as loot.10 They burned the cities where the Midianites lived and all their settlements.11 They took everything as loot including all the people and animals,12 and brought the prisoners of war, the loot, and everything to Moses, the priest Eleazar, and the congregation of Israel at the camp on the plains of Moab near the Jordan River across from Jericho.13 Moses, the priest Eleazar, and all the leaders of the congregation went outside the camp to meet them.14 Moses was angry with the officers of the army, the commanders of the companies and battalions, who were returning from battle.15 Moses asked them: »Have you spared all the women?16 »Look, these women caused the Israelites, through the counsel of Balaam, to trespass against Jehovah in the matter of Peor. Thus the congregation of Jehovah experienced the plague.17 »So kill all the Midianite boys and every Midianite woman who has gone to bed with a man.18 »But keep alive for yourselves every girl who has never gone to bed with a man.19 »Everyone who killed a person or touched a dead body must stay outside the camp seven days. You and your prisoners of war must use the ritual water on the third and seventh days in order to take away your sin.20 »You must do the same for all the clothes and everything made of leather, goats’ hair, or wood.«21 Eleazar the priest said to the soldiers who had gone into battle: »This is what Jehovah’s Law told Moses to do:22 »Only the gold and the silver, the copper, the iron, the tin and the lead,23 everything that can stand the fire, you shall pass through the fire, and it will be clean. It must be purified with water for impurity. Anything that cannot stand the fire you shall pass through the water.24 »You must wash your clothes on the seventh day and be clean. After that you may enter the camp.«25 Jehovah spoke to Moses:26 »You and Eleazar the priest and the heads of the families of the congregation take a count of the booty that was captured, both of man and of animal.27 »Divide the booty between the warriors who went out to battle and the entire congregation.28 »Levy a tax for Jehovah from the men of war who went out to battle, one in five hundred of the persons and of the cattle and of the donkeys and of the sheep.29 »Take it from their half and give it to Eleazar the priest, as an offering to Jehovah.30 »From the sons 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 sheep, from all the animals, and give them to the Levites who keep charge of the tabernacle of Jehovah.«31 Moses and Eleazar the priest did just as Jehovah commanded Moses.32 The booty that remained from the spoil the men of war had plundered was six hundred and seventy-five thousand sheep,33 and seventy-two thousand cattle,34 and sixty-one thousand donkeys,35 and of human beings, of the women who had not known man intimately, all the persons were thirty-two thousand.36 The half, the portion of those who went out to war, was as follows: the number of sheep was three hundred thirty-seven thousand five hundred.37 Jehovah’s levy of the sheep was six hundred and seventy-five.38 There were thirty-six thousand cattle, from which Jehovah’s levy was seventy-two.39 There were thirty thousand five hundred donkeys, from which Jehovah’s levy was sixty-one.40 There were sixteen thousand human beings, from whom Jehovah’s levy was thirty-two persons.41 Moses gave the levy that was Jehovah’s offering to Eleazar the priest, just as Jehovah had commanded Moses.42 And from the Israelites half, which Moses separated from the men who had gone to war.43 The congregation’s half was three hundred thirty-seven thousand five hundred sheep,44 and thirty-six thousand cattle,45 and thirty thousand five hundred donkeys,46 and the human beings were sixteen thousand.47 Moses took one drawn out of every fifty, both of man and of animals from the Israelite’s half. He gave them to the Levites, who kept charge of the tabernacle of Jehovah, just as Jehovah commanded Moses.48 Then the officers who were over the thousands of the army, the captains of thousands and the captains of hundreds, approached Moses.49 They said to Moses: »Your servants have taken a census of men of war who are in our charge, and no man of us is missing.50 »So we brought as an offering to Jehovah what each man found, articles of gold, armlets and ankle bracelets, signet rings, earrings and necklaces, to make atonement for ourselves before Jehovah.«51 Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold from them, all kinds of molded articles.52 All the gold of the offering they gave to Jehovah, from the captains of thousands and the captains of hundreds, was sixteen thousand seven hundred and fifty shekels.53 Each of the men of war had taken booty.54 So Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold from the captains of thousands and of hundreds, and brought it to the tent of meeting as a memorial for the Israelites before Jehovah.