Numbers 31:15-40

15And Moses said to them, “Have you 1spared 2all the women? 163Behold, these 4caused the sons of Israel, through the 5counsel of 6Balaam, to 7trespass against the Lord in the matter of Peor, so the plague was among the congregation of the Lord. 178Now therefore, kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who has known man 9intimately. 18But all the 10girls who have not known man 11intimately, 12spare for yourselves. 1913And you, camp outside the camp seven days; whoever has killed any person and whoever has touched any slain, purify yourselves, you and your captives, on the third day and on the seventh day. 20You shall purify for yourselves every garment and every article of 14leather and all the work of goats’ hair, and all articles of wood.”

21Then Eleazar the priest said to the men of war who had gone to battle, “This is the statute of the law which the Lord has commanded Moses: 22only the gold and the silver, the bronze, the iron, the tin and the lead, 23everything that can stand the fire, you shall pass through the fire, and it shall be clean, but it shall be purified with 15water for impurity. But whatever cannot stand the fire you shall pass through the water. 24And you shall wash your clothes on the seventh day and be clean, and afterward you may enter the camp.”

25Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 26“You and Eleazar the priest and the heads of the fathers’ households of the congregation take a count of the booty 16that was captured, both of man and of animal; 27and 17divide the booty between the warriors who went out to battle and all the congregation. 2818Levy a tax for the Lord from the men of war who went out to battle, one 19in five hundred of the persons and of the cattle and of the donkeys and of the sheep; 29take it from their half and give it to Eleazar the priest, as an 20offering to the Lord. 30From the sons of Israel’s half, you shall take one drawn out of every fifty of the persons, of the cattle, of the donkeys and of the sheep, from all the animals, and give them to the Levites who 21keep charge of the tabernacle of the Lord.” 31Moses and Eleazar the priest did just as the Lord had commanded Moses.

32Now the booty that remained from the spoil which the 22men of war had plundered was 675,000 sheep, 33and 72,000 cattle, 34and 61,000 donkeys, 35and of human beings, of the women who had not known man 23intimately, all the persons were 32,000.

36The half, the portion of those who went out to war, was as follows: the number of sheep was 337,500, 37and the Lord’s levy of the sheep was 675; 38and the cattle were 36,000, from which the Lord’s levy was 72; 39and the donkeys were 30,500, from which the Lord’s levy was 61; 40and the human beings were 16,000, from whom the Lord’s levy was 32 persons.