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1 Then Moses said to the heads of the tribes of the Israelites: This
is what the Lord has commanded.
2 When a man makes a vow to the Lord, or swears an oath to bind
himself by a pledge, he shall not break his word; he shall do according to all
that proceeds out of his mouth.
3 When a woman makes a vow to the Lord, or binds herself by a
pledge, while within her father's house, in her youth,
4 and her father hears of her vow or her pledge by which she has
bound herself, and says nothing to her; then all her vows shall stand, and any
pledge by which she has bound herself shall stand.
5 But if her father expresses disapproval to her at the time that he
hears of it, no vow of hers, and no pledge by which she has bound herself,
shall stand; and the Lord will forgive her, because her father had expressed to
her his disapproval.
6 If she marries, while obligated by her vows or any thoughtless
utterance of her lips by which she has bound herself,
7 and her husband hears of it and says nothing to her at the time
that he hears, then her vows shall stand, and her pledges by which she has
bound herself shall stand.
8 But if, at the time that her husband hears of it, he expresses
disapproval to her, then he shall nullify the vow by which she was obligated,
or the thoughtless utterance of her lips, by which she bound herself; and the
Lord will forgive her.
9 (But every vow of a widow or of a divorced woman, by which she has
bound herself, shall be binding upon her.)
10 And if she made a vow in her husband's house, or bound herself by
a pledge with an oath,
11 and her husband heard it and said nothing to her, and did not
express disapproval to her, then all her vows shall stand, and any pledge by
which she bound herself shall stand.
12 But if her husband nullifies them at the time that he hears them,
then whatever proceeds out of her lips concerning her vows, or concerning her
pledge of herself, shall not stand. Her husband has nullified them, and the
Lord will forgive her.
13 Any vow or any binding oath to deny herself, her husband may allow
to stand, or her husband may nullify.
14 But if her husband says nothing to her from day to day, then he
validates all her vows, or all her pledges, by which she is obligated; he has
validated them, because he said nothing to her at the time that he heard of
them.
15 But if he nullifies them some time after he has heard of them,
then he shall bear her guilt.
16 These are the statutes that the Lord commanded Moses concerning a
husband and his wife, and a father and his daughter while she is still young
and in her father's house.
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1 The Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
2 "Avenge the Israelites on the Midianites; afterward you shall
be gathered to your people."
3 So Moses said to the people, "Arm some of your number for the
war, so that they may go against Midian, to execute the Lord's vengeance on
Midian.
4 You shall send a thousand from each of the tribes of Israel to the
war."
5 So out of the thousands of Israel, a thousand from each tribe were
conscripted, twelve thousand armed for battle.
6 Moses sent them to the war, a thousand from each tribe, along with
Phinehas son of Eleazar the priest, with the vessels of the sanctuary and the
trumpets for sounding the alarm in his hand.
7 They did battle against Midian, as the Lord had commanded Moses,
and killed every male.
8 They killed the kings of Midian: Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba,
the five kings of Midian, in addition to others who were slain by them; and
they also killed Balaam son of Beor with the sword.
9 The Israelites took the women of Midian and their little ones
captive; and they took all their cattle, their flocks, and all their goods as
booty.
10 All their towns where they had settled, and all their encampments,
they burned,
11 but they took all the spoil and all the booty, both people and
animals.
12 Then they brought the captives and the booty and the spoil to
Moses, to Eleazar the priest, and to the congregation of the Israelites, at the
camp on the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho.
13Moses, Eleazar the priest, and all the leaders of the congregation went
to meet them outside the camp.
14 Moses became angry with the officers of the army, the commanders of
thousands and the commanders of hundreds, who had come from service in the
war.
15 Moses said to them, "Have you allowed all the women to
live?
16 These women here, on Balaam's advice, made the Israelites act
treacherously against the Lord in the affair of Peor, so that the plague came
among the congregation of the Lord.
17 Now therefore, kill every male among the little ones, and kill
every woman who has known a man by sleeping with him.
18 But all the young girls who have not known a man by sleeping with
him, keep alive for yourselves.
19 Camp outside the camp seven days; whoever of you has killed any
person or touched a corpse, purify yourselves and your captives on the third
and on the seventh day.
20 You shall purify every garment, every article of skin, everything
made of goats' hair, and every article of wood."
21 Eleazar the priest said to the troops who had gone to battle:
"This is the statute of the law that the Lord has commanded Moses:
22 gold, silver, bronze, iron, tin, and lead—
23 everything that can withstand fire, shall be passed through fire,
and it shall be clean. Nevertheless it shall also be purified with the water
for purification; and whatever cannot withstand fire, shall be passed through
the water.
24 You must wash your clothes on the seventh day, and you shall be
clean; afterward you may come into the camp."
25 The Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
26 "You and Eleazar the priest and the heads of the ancestral
houses of the congregation make an inventory of the booty captured, both human
and animal.
27 Divide the booty into two parts, between the warriors who went out
to battle and all the congregation.
28 From the share of the warriors who went out to battle, set aside
as tribute for the Lord, one item out of every five hundred, whether persons,
oxen, donkeys, sheep, or goats.
29 Take it from their half and give it to Eleazar the priest as an
offering to the Lord.
30 But from the Israelites' half you shall take one out of every
fifty, whether persons, oxen, donkeys, sheep, or goats—all the animals—and give
them to the Levites who have charge of the tabernacle of the Lord."
31 Then Moses and Eleazar the priest did as the Lord had commanded
Moses:
32 The booty remaining from the spoil that the troops had taken
totalled six hundred seventy-five thousand sheep,
33 seventy-two thousand oxen,
34 sixty-one thousand donkeys,
35 and thirty-two thousand persons in all, women who had not known a
man by sleeping with him.
36 The half-share, the portion of those who had gone out to war, was
in number three hundred thirty-seven thousand five hundred sheep and
goats,
37 and the Lord's tribute of sheep and goats were six hundred
seventy-five.
38 The oxen were thirty-six thousand, of which the Lord's tribute was
seventy-two.
39 The donkeys were thirty thousand five hundred, of which the Lord's
tribute was sixty-one.
40 The persons were sixteen thousand, of which the Lord's tribute was
thirty-two persons.
41 Moses gave the tribute, the offering for the Lord, to Eleazar the
priest, as the Lord had commanded Moses.
42 As for the Israelites' half, which Moses separated from that of
the troops,
43 the congregation's half was three hundred thirty-seven thousand five
hundred sheep and goats,
44thirty-six thousand oxen,
45 thirty thousand five hundred donkeys,
46 and sixteen thousand persons.
47 From the Israelites' half Moses took one of every fifty, both of
persons and of animals, and gave them to the Levites who had charge of the
tabernacle of the Lord; as the Lord had commanded Moses.
48 Then the officers who were over the thousands of the army, the
commanders of thousands and the commanders of hundreds, approached Moses,
49 and said to Moses, "Your servants have counted the warriors
who are under our command, and not one of us is missing.
50 And we have brought the Lord's offering, what each of us found,
articles of gold, armlets and bracelets, signet rings, earrings, and pendants,
to make atonement for ourselves before the Lord."
51 Moses and Eleazar the priest received the gold from them, all in
the form of crafted articles.
52 And all the gold of the offering that they offered to the Lord,
from the commanders of thousands and the commanders of hundreds, was sixteen
thousand seven hundred fifty shekels.
53 (The troops had all taken plunder for themselves.)
54 So Moses and Eleazar the priest received the gold from the
commanders of thousands and of hundreds, and brought it into the tent of
meeting as a memorial for the Israelites before the Lord.
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1 Now the Reubenites and the Gadites owned a very great number of
cattle. When they saw that the land of Jazer and the land of Gilead was a good
place for cattle,
2 the Gadites and the Reubenites came and spoke to Moses, to Eleazar
the priest, and to the leaders of the congregation, saying,
3 "Ataroth, Dibon, Jazer, Nimrah, Heshbon, Elealeh, Sebam,
Nebo, and Beon—
4 the land that the Lord subdued before the congregation of
Israel—is a land for cattle; and your servants have cattle."
5 They continued, "If we have found favour in your sight, let
this land be given to your servants for a possession; do not make us cross the
Jordan."
6 But Moses said to the Gadites and to the Reubenites, "Shall
your brothers go to war while you sit here?
7 Why will you discourage the hearts of the Israelites from going
over into the land that the Lord has given them?
8 Your fathers did this, when I sent them from Kadesh-barnea to see
the land.
9 When they went up to the Wadi Eshcol and saw the land, they
discouraged the hearts of the Israelites from going into the land that the Lord
had given them.
10 The Lord's anger was kindled on that day and he swore,
saying,
11 "Surely none of the people who came up out of Egypt, from
twenty years old and upward, shall see the land that I swore to give to
Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, because they have not unreservedly followed
me—
12 none except Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite and Joshua son of Nun,
for they have unreservedly followed the Lord.'
13 And the Lord's anger was kindled against Israel, and he made them
wander in the wilderness for forty years, until all the generation that had
done evil in the sight of the Lord had disappeared.
14 And now you, a brood of sinners, have risen in place of your
fathers, to increase the Lord's fierce anger against Israel!
15 If you turn away from following him, he will again abandon them in
the wilderness; and you will destroy all this people."
16 Then they came up to him and said, "We will build sheepfolds
here for our flocks, and towns for our little ones,
17 but we will take up arms as a vanguard before the Israelites,
until we have brought them to their place. Meanwhile our little ones will stay
in the fortified towns because of the inhabitants of the land.
18 We will not return to our homes until all the Israelites have
obtained their inheritance.
19 We will not inherit with them on the other side of the Jordan and
beyond, because our inheritance has come to us on this side of the Jordan to
the east."
20 So Moses said to them, "If you do this—if you take up arms to
go before the Lord for the war,
21 and all those of you who bear arms cross the Jordan before the
Lord, until he has driven out his enemies from before him
22 and the land is subdued before the Lord—then after that you may
return and be free of obligation to the Lord and to Israel, and this land shall
be your possession before the Lord.
23 But if you do not do this, you have sinned against the Lord; and
be sure your sin will find you out.
24 Build towns for your little ones and folds for your flocks; but do
what you have promised."
25 Then the Gadites and the Reubenites said to Moses, "Your
servants will do as my lord commands.
26 Our little ones, our wives, our flocks, and all our livestock
shall remain there in the towns of Gilead;
27 but your servants will cross over, everyone armed for war, to do
battle for the Lord, just as my lord orders."
28 So Moses gave command concerning them to Eleazar the priest, to
Joshua son of Nun, and to the heads of the ancestral houses of the Israelite
tribes.
29 And Moses said to them, "If the Gadites and the Reubenites,
everyone armed for battle before the Lord, will cross over the Jordan with you
and the land shall be subdued before you, then you shall give them the land of
Gilead for a possession;
30 but if they will not cross over with you armed, they shall have
possessions among you in the land of Canaan."
31 The Gadites and the Reubenites answered, "As the Lord has
spoken to your servants, so we will do.
32 We will cross over armed before the Lord into the land of Canaan,
but the possession of our inheritance shall remain with us on this side of the
Jordan."
33 Moses gave to them—to the Gadites and to the Reubenites and to the
half-tribe of Manasseh son of Joseph—the kingdom of King Sihon of the Amorites
and the kingdom of King Og of Bashan, the land and its towns, with the
territories of the surrounding towns.
34 And the Gadites rebuilt Dibon, Ataroth, Aroer,
35 Atroth-shophan, Jazer, Jogbehah,
36 Beth-nimrah, and Beth-haran, fortified cities, and folds for
sheep.
37 And the Reubenites rebuilt Heshbon, Elealeh, Kiriathaim,
38 Nebo, and Baal-meon (some names being changed), and Sibmah; and
they gave names to the towns that they rebuilt.
39 The descendants of Machir son of Manasseh went to Gilead, captured
it, and dispossessed the Amorites who were there;
40 so Moses gave Gilead to Machir son of Manasseh, and he settled
there.
41 Jair son of Manasseh went and captured their villages, and renamed
them Havvoth-jair.
42 And Nobah went and captured Kenath and its villages, and renamed
it Nobah after himself.
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