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And Moses told the children of Israel all that the Lord had commanded him:

And he said to the princes of the tribes of the children of Israel: This is the word that the Lord hath commanded:

If any man make a vow to the Lord, or bind himself by an oath: he shall not make his word void but shall fulfil all that he promised.

Whatsoever she promised and swore, she shall fulfil in deed.

The day that her husband shall hear it, and not gainsay it, she shall be bound to the vow, and shall give whatsoever she promised.

If her husband hear, and hold his peace, and doth not disallow the promise, she shall accomplish whatsoever she had promised.

But if he gainsay it after that he knew it, he shall bear her iniquity.

And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

And Moses forthwith said: Arm of you men to fight, who may take the revenge of the Lord on the Madianites.

And when they had fought against the Madianites and had overcome them, they slew all the men.

Are not these they, that deceived the children of Israel by the counsel of Balaam, and made you transgress against the Lord by the sin of Phogor, for which also the people was punished?

Eleazar also the priest spoke to the men of the army, that had fought, in this manner: This is the ordinance of the law, which the Lord hath commanded Moses:

And the Lord said to Moses:

And thou shalt separate a portion to the Lord from them that fought and were in the battle, one soul of five hundred as well of persons as of oxen and asses and sheep.

And thou shalt give it to Eleazar the priest, because they are the firstfruits of the Lord.

Out of the moiety also of the children of Israel thou shalt take the fiftieth head of persons, and of oxen, and asses, and sheep, and of all beasts, and thou shalt give them to the Levites that watch in the charge of the tabernacle of the Lord.

And Moses and Eleazar did as the Lord had commanded.

Out of which, for the portion of the Lord, were reckoned six hundred seventy five sheep.

And out of the thirty-six thousand oxen, seventy-two oxen:

Out of the thirty thousand five hundred asses, sixty-one asses:

Out of the sixteen thousand persons, there fell to the portion of the Lord, thirty-two souls.

And Moses delivered the number of the firstfruits of the Lord to Eleazar the priest, as had been commanded him,

Moses took the fiftieth head, and gave it to the Levites that watched in the tabernacle of the Lord, as the Lord had commanded.

Therefore we offer as gifts to the Lord what gold every one of us could find in the booty, in garters and tablets, rings and bracelets, and chains, that thou mayst pray to the Lord for us.

In weight sixteen thousand seven hundred and fifty sicles, from the tribunes and from the centurions.