1 O Senhor disse a Moisés:2 "Vinga os filhos de Israel do mal que lhes fizeram os madianitas; depois disso serás reunido aos teus."3 Moisés disse então ao povo: "Armem-se para a guerra alguns homens dentre vós: eles atacarão Madiã, para executarem sobre ele a vingança do Senhor.4 Poreis em linha de combate mil homens de cada uma das tribos de Israel."5 Reuniram-se, pois, dentre as famílias de Israel, mil homens por tribo, ou seja, doze mil homens de pé, prontos para o combate.6 Moisés enviou-os ao combate; mil homens de cada tribo, com Finéias, filho do sacerdote Eleazar, que levou também os objetos sagrados e as trombetas para tocar.7 Atacaram os madianitas, como o Senhor tinha ordenado a Moisés, e mataram todos os varões.8 Mataram também os reis de Madiã: Evi, Recém, Sur, Hur e Rebe, cinco reis de Madiã, e passaram ao fio da espada Balaão, filho de Beor.9 Levaram prisioneiras as mulheres dos madianitas com seus filhos, e pilharam todo o seu gado, seus rebanhos e todos os seus bens.10 Incendiaram todas as cidades que habitavam e todos os seus acampamentos.11 Levaram consigo todo o espólio e todos os despojos, animais e pessoas,12 e conduziram-nos a Moisés, ao sacerdote Eleazar e à assembléia dos israelitas no acampamento que se encontrava nas planícies de Moab, perto do Jordão, em face de Jericó.13 Moisés, o sacerdote Eleazar e todos os chefes da assembléia saíram-lhes ao encontro fora do acampamento.14 E Moisés, irado contra os generais do exército, os chefes de milhares e os chefes de centenas que voltavam da batalha, disse-lhes:15 "O que é isso? Deixastes com vida todas essas mulheres?16 Mas são justamente elas que, instigadas por Balaão, levaram os israelitas a serem infiéis ao Senhor na questão de Fogor, a qual foi também a causa do flagelo que feriu a assembléia do Senhor!17 Ide! Matai todos os filhos varões e todas as mulheres que tiverem tido comércio com um homem;18 mas deixai vivas todas as jovens que não o fizeram.19 E vós, acampai durante sete dias fora do acampamento. Todos os que tiverem matado um homem ou tocado em um morto, purificar-se-ão ao terceiro e ao sétimo dia, eles e seus prisioneiros.20 Purificai também toda veste, todo objeto de pele, todo tecido de pêlo de cabra e todo utensílio de madeira."21 O sacerdote Eleazar disse então aos guerreiros que tinham combatido: "Eis o preceito da lei que o Senhor impôs a Moisés:22 o ouro, a prata, o bronze, o ferro, o estanho, o chumbo, tudo o que pode passar pelas chamas23 será purificado no fogo; mas será também purificado pela água lustral. Tudo o que não suporta o fogo será purificado com a água.24 Lavareis vossas vestes no sétimo dia, para serdes puros; depois disso, voltareis ao acampamento."25 O Senhor disse a Moisés:26 "Fazei o inventário de todo o espólio que foi tomado, homens e animais, tu, o sacerdote Eleazar e os chefes de família da assembléia.27 Repartirás em seguida a presa em partes iguais entre os que pelejaram, e entre todo o resto da assembléia.28 Da parte daqueles que pelejaram e foram à guerra, separarás um tributo para o Senhor, um de cada quinhentos homens, gado, jumentos ou ovelhas.29 Toma-o da sua metade para entregar ao sacerdote Eleazar, como oferta ao Senhor.30 Da metade que toca aos israelitas, tomarás um de cada cinqüenta, homens, bois, jumentos, ovelhas e qualquer outro animal, e darás aos levitas, que têm a guarda da casa do Senhor."31 Moisés e o sacerdote Eleazar fizeram como o Senhor tinha ordenado.32 Os despojos, o conjunto do espólio que tinha feito o exército era de seiscentos e setenta e cinco mil ovelhas,33 setenta e dois mil bois34 e sessenta e um mil jumentos.35 Havia também trinta e duas mil jovens que não tinham coabitado com homem algum.36 Foi dada a metade àqueles que tinham ido ao combate, isto é, trezentas e trinta e sete mil e quinhentas ovelhas,37 das quais seiscentas e setenta e cinco para o tributo do Senhor;38 trinta e seis mil bois, dos quais setenta e dois para o tributo do Senhor;39 trinta mil e quinhentos jumentos, dos quais sessenta e um para o tributo do Senhor;40 dezesseis mil pessoas, das quais trinta e duas para o tributo do Senhor.41 Moisés entregou ao sacerdote Eleazar o tributo tomado para o Senhor, como o Senhor lhe tinha ordenado.42 Restava a metade destinada aos filhos de Israel, que Moisés havia separado da dos guerreiros.43 Esta parte da assembléia compreendia trezentas e trinta e sete mil e quinhentas ovelhas,44 trinta e seis mil bois,45 trinta mil e quinhentos jumentos46 e dezesseis mil pessoas.47 Dessa metade dos israelitas Moisés tomou um de cada cinqüenta, homens e animais, e deu-os aos levitas, encarregados do serviço da casa do Senhor, assim como o Senhor lhe tinha ordenado.48 Os comandantes das tropas do exército, os chefes de milhares e de centenas49 aproximaram-se então de Moisés e disseram-lhe: "Teus servos fizeram a conta dos guerreiros que estiveram sob o nosso comando: não falta nem um sequer.50 Trazemos, pois, como oferta ao Senhor, tudo o que cada um encontrou de objetos de ouro: correntinhas, braceletes, anéis, brincos e colares, para que se faça expiação por nós diante do Senhor."51 Moisés e o sacerdote Eleazar receberam deles esse ouro, toda a sorte de objetos artisticamente trabalhados.52 O peso total do ouro, que foi assim separado e oferecido ao Senhor da parte dos chefes de milhares e de centenas, era de dezesseis mil setecentos e cinqüenta siclos.53 Os homens da tropa haviam pilhado cada um para si.54 Moisés e o sacerdote Eleazar, tendo recebido o ouro das mãos dos chefes de milhares e de centenas, levaram-no à tenda de reunião para que servisse de memorial diante do Senhor pelos israelitas.

1 And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying,2 Avenge the sons of Israel upon the Midianites; afterward thou shalt be gathered unto thy peoples.3 And Moses spoke unto the people, saying, Arm some of yourselves unto the war and let them go against the Midianites and carry out the vengeance the LORD in Midian.4 A thousand out of every tribe throughout all the tribes of Israel shall ye send to the war.5 So there were delivered out of the thousands of Israel a thousand of [every] tribe, twelve thousand armed for war.6 And Moses sent them to the war; he sent a thousand of every tribe; and Phinehas, the son of Eleazar the priest, [went] to the war with the holy instruments, with the trumpets to blow in his hand.7 And they fought against the Midianites as the LORD commanded Moses; and they slew all the males.8 And they also slew the kings of Midian among the rest of those that were slain: [namely], Evi and Rekem and Zur and Hur and Reba, five kings of Midian; they also slew Balaam, the son of Beor, with the sword.9 And the sons of Israel took [all] the women of Midian captives and their little ones and took the spoil of all their beasts and all their flocks and all their goods.10 And they burnt all their cities in which they dwelt and all their palaces with fire.11 And they took all the spoil and all the prey, [both] of men and of beasts.12 And they brought the captives and the prey and the spoil unto Moses and Eleazar, the priest, and unto the congregation of the sons of Israel, unto the camp in the plains of Moab, which [was] by Jordan of Jericho.13 And Moses and Eleazar, the priest, and all the princes of the congregation went forth to meet them outside the camp.14 And Moses was angry with the officers of the host, [with] the captains over thousands and captains over hundreds who returned from the battle.15 And Moses said unto them, Have ye saved all the women alive?16 Behold, these caused the sons of Israel through the counsel of Balaam to commit trespass against the LORD in the matter of Peor for which there was a plague among the congregation of the LORD.17 Now therefore kill every male among the little ones and kill every woman that has known a man by lying with him.18 But all the female children that have not known a man by lying with him keep alive for yourselves.19 And ye must abide outside the camp seven days; and whoever has killed any person and whoever has touched any dead [body] ye shall remove the sin from them on the third and on the seventh day, [both] of yourselves and of your captives.20 Likewise remove all sin from all [your] clothing and all that is made of skins and all work of goats' [hair] and every vessel made of wood.21 And Eleazar, the priest, said unto the men of war which went to the battle, This [is] the ordinance of the law which the LORD commanded Moses;22 certainly the gold and the silver, the brass, the iron, the tin, and the lead,23 every thing that may endure the fire, ye shall cause to pass through the fire, and it shall be clean; nevertheless, ye shall remove the sin with the water of separation; and all that does not endure the fire ye shall cause to go through the water.24 Ye shall also wash your clothes on the seventh day, and ye shall be clean, and afterwards ye shall come into the camp.25 And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying,26 Take the sum of the prey that was taken, [both] of man and of beast, thou and Eleazar, the priest, and the heads of the fathers of the congregation,27 and divide the prey into two parts between those that took the part in the war, who went out to battle, and all the congregation.28 And offer a tribute unto the LORD from the men of war who went out to battle: one soul of five hundred, [both] of the persons and of the oxen and of the asses and of the sheep.29 Take [it] from their half and give Eleazar, the priest, the offering of the LORD.30 And of the half belonging to the sons of Israel, thou shalt take one portion of fifty, of the persons, of the oxen, of the asses, and of the flocks, of all manner of animals and give them unto the Levites, who keep the charge of the tabernacle of the LORD.31 And Moses and Eleazar, the priest, did as the LORD commanded Moses.32 And the prey, [that is] the rest of the prey which the men of war had caught, was six hundred and seventy-five thousand sheep33 and seventy-two thousand oxen34 and sixty-one thousand asses35 and thirty-two thousand persons in all, of women that had not known a man by lying with him.36 And the half [which was] the portion of those that went out to war was in number three hundred and thirty-seven thousand five hundred sheep.37 And the tribute for the LORD, of the sheep was six hundred and seventy-five.38 And the oxen [were] thirty-six thousand, of which the tribute for the LORD [was] seventy-two.39 And the asses [were] thirty thousand five hundred, of which the tribute for the LORD [was] sixty-one.40 And the persons [were] sixteen thousand, of which the tribute for the LORD [was] thirty-two persons.41 And Moses gave the tribute, [which was] the LORD'S [heave] offering, unto Eleazar, the priest, as the LORD had commanded Moses.42 And of the half pertaining to the sons of Israel, which Moses divided from the men that had gone to war,43 (now the half [that pertained unto] the congregation was three hundred and thirty-seven thousand five hundred sheep44 and thirty-six thousand oxen45 and thirty thousand five hundred asses46 and sixteen thousand persons)47 of the half, therefore of the sons of Israel, Moses took one portion of fifty, [both] of man and of beast, and gave them unto the Levites, who kept the charge of the tabernacle of the LORD, as the LORD had commanded Moses.48 And the officers who [were] over thousands of the host, the captains of thousands and captains of hundreds, came near unto Moses,49 and they said unto Moses, Thy servants have taken the sum of the men of war who [are] under our charge and not one man of us is missing.50 We have therefore brought an offering for the LORD, each man of what he has found, of vessels of gold, chains, and bracelets, rings, earrings, and tablets, to reconcile our souls before the LORD.51 And Moses and Eleazar, the priest, took the gold from them, all wrought vessels.52 And all the gold of the offering that they offered up to the LORD, of the captains of thousands and of the captains of hundreds, [was] sixteen thousand seven hundred and fifty shekels.53 ([For] the men of war had taken spoil, every man for himself.)54 And Moses and Eleazar, the priest, took the gold from the captains of thousands and of hundreds and brought it into the tabernacle of the testimony, [for] a memorial of the sons of Israel before the LORD.: