The Wilderness Years

Behold, these caused the children of Israel through the counsell of Balaam to commit a trespasse against the Lord, as concerning Peor, and there came a plague among the Congregation of the Lord.

Now therefore, slay all the males among the children, and kill all the women that haue knowen man by carnall copulation.

But all the women children that haue not knowen carnall copulation, keepe aliue for your selues.

And ye shall remaine without the host seuen dayes, all that haue killed any person, and all that haue touched any dead, and purifie both your selues and your prisoners the third day and the seuenth.

Also ye shall purifie euery garment and all that is made of skins and al worke of goates heare, and all things made of wood.

And Eleazar ye Priest sayd vnto the men of warre, which went to the battel, This is the ordinance of the law which the Lord commanded Moses,

As for gold, and siluer, brasse, yron, tynne, and lead:

Euen all that may abide the fire, yee shall make it goe through the fire, and it shalbe cleane: yet, it shalbe purified with the water of purification: and all that suffereth not the fire, yee shall cause to passe by the water.

Ye shall wash also your clothes the seuenth day, and ye shalbe cleane: and afterward ye shall come into the Hoste.

And the Lord spake vnto Moses, saying,

Take the summe of the praie that was taken, both of persons and of cattell, thou and Eleazar the Priest, and the chiefe fathers of the Congregation.

And deuide the praye betweene the souldiers that went to the warre, and all the Congregation.

And thou shalt take a tribute vnto ye Lord of the men of warre, which went out to battel: one person of fiue hundreth, both of the persons, and of the beeues, and of the asses, and of the sheepe.

Yee shall take it of their halfe and giue it vnto Eleazar the Priest, as an heaue offring of the Lord.

But of the halfe of the children of Israel thou shalt take one, taken out of fiftie, both of the persons, of the beeues, of the asses, and of the sheepe, euen of all the cattel: and thou shalt giue them vnto the Leuites, which haue the charge of the Tabernacle of the Lord.

And Moses and Eleazar the priest did as the Lord had commanded Moses.

And the bootie, to wit, the rest of the praie which the men of warre had spoyled, was sixe hundreth seuentie and fiue thousand sheepe,

And seuentie and two thousand beeues,

And three score and one thousand asses,

And two and thirtie thousande persons in all, of women that had lyen by no man.

And the halfe, to wit, the part of them that went out to warre touching the nomber of sheepe, was three hundreth seuen and thirtie thousand, and fiue hundreth.

And the Lordes tribute of the sheepe was sixe hundreth and seuentie and fiue:

And the beeues were six and thirty thousad, whereof the Lordes tribute was seuentie and two.

And the asses were thirtie thousande and fiue hundreth, whereof the Lordes tribute was three score and one:

And of persons sixtene thousand, whereof the Lordes tribute was two and thirtie persons.