The Wilderness Years

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?

Therefore kill all that are of the male sex, even of the children: and put to death the women, that have carnally known men.

But the girls, and all the women that are virgins save for yourselves:

And stay without the camp seven days. He that hath killed a man, or touched one that is killed, shall be purified the third day and the seventh day.

And of all the spoil, every garment, or vessel, or any thing made for use, of the skins, or hair of goats, or of wood, shall be purified.

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:

Gold, and silver, and brass, and iron, and lead, and tin,

And all that may pass through the fire, shall be purified by fire, but whatsoever cannot abide the fire, shall be sanctified with the water of expiation:

And you shall wash your garments the seventh day, and being purified, you shall afterwards enter into the camp.

And the Lord said to Moses:

Take the sum of the things that were taken both of man and beast, thou and Eleazar the priest and the princes of the multitude:

And thou shalt divide the spoil equally, between them that fought and went out to the war, and between the rest of the multitude.

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.

And the spoil which the army had taken, was six hundred seventy-five thousand sheep,

Seventy-two thousand oxen,

Sixty-one thousand asses:

And thirty-two thousand persons of the female sex, that had not known men.

And one half was given to them that had been in the battle, to wit, three hundred thirty-seven thousand five hundred sheep:

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.