BIBLE VERSES 2

Numbers 31:10

Then they burned all the cities where the Midianites had lived, as well as all their encampments,

Numbers 31:11

and carried away all the plunder and spoils, both people and animals.

Numbers 31:12

They brought the captives, spoils, and plunder to Moses, to Eleazar the priest, and to the congregation of Israel at the camp on the plains of Moab, by the Jordan across from Jericho.

Numbers 31:13

And Moses, Eleazar the priest, and all the leaders of the congregation went to meet them outside the camp.

Numbers 31:14

But Moses was angry with the officers of the army—the commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds—who were returning from the battle.

Numbers 31:15

“Have you spared all the women?” he asked them.

Numbers 31:16

“Look, these women caused the sons of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to turn unfaithfully against the LORD at Peor, so that the plague struck the congregation of the LORD.

Numbers 31:17

So now, kill all the boys, as well as every woman who has had relations with a man,

Numbers 31:18

but spare for yourselves every girl who has never had relations with a man.

Numbers 31:19

All of you who have killed a person or touched the dead are to remain outside the camp for seven days. On the third day and the seventh day you are to purify both yourselves and your captives.

Numbers 31:20

And purify every garment and leather good, everything made of goat’s hair, and every article of wood.”

Numbers 31:21

Then Eleazar the priest said to the soldiers who had gone into battle, “This is the statute of the law which the LORD has commanded Moses:

Numbers 31:22

Only the gold, silver, bronze, iron, tin, and lead—

Numbers 31:23

everything that can withstand the fire—must be put through the fire, and it will be clean. But it must still be purified with the water of purification. And everything that cannot withstand the fire must pass through the water.

Numbers 31:24

On the seventh day you are to wash your clothes, and you will be clean. After that you may enter the camp.”

Numbers 31:25

The LORD said to Moses,

Numbers 31:26

“You and Eleazar the priest and the family heads of the congregation are to take a count of what was captured, both of man and beast.

Numbers 31:27

Then divide the captives between the troops who went out to battle and the rest of the congregation.

Numbers 31:28

Set aside a tribute for the LORD from what belongs to the soldiers who went into battle: one out of every five hundred, whether persons, cattle, donkeys, or sheep.

Numbers 31:29

Take it from their half and give it to Eleazar the priest as an offering to the LORD.