Numbers 31:7-35

7So they made war against Midian, just as the Lord had commanded Moses, and 1they killed every male. 8They killed the kings of Midian along with the rest of their slain: 2Evi and Rekem and 3Zur and Hur and Reba, the five kings of Midian; they also killed 4Balaam the son of Beor with the sword. 9The sons of Israel captured the women of Midian and their little ones; and all their cattle and all their flocks and all their goods they plundered. 10Then they burned all their cities where they lived and all their camps with fire. 115They took all the spoil and all the prey, both of man and of beast. 12They brought the captives and the prey and the spoil to Moses, and to Eleazar the priest and to the congregation of the sons of Israel, to the camp at the plains of Moab, which are by the Jordan opposite Jericho.

13Moses and Eleazar the priest and all the leaders of the congregation went out to meet them outside the camp. 14Moses was angry with the officers of the army, the captains of thousands and the captains of hundreds, who had come from service in the war. 15And Moses said to them, “Have you 6spared 7all the women? 168Behold, these 9caused the sons of Israel, through the 10counsel of 11Balaam, to 12trespass against the Lord in the matter of Peor, so the plague was among the congregation of the Lord. 1713Now therefore, kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who has known man 14intimately. 18But all the 15girls who have not known man 16intimately, 17spare for yourselves. 1918And 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 19leather 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 20water 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 21that was captured, both of man and of animal; 27and 22divide the booty between the warriors who went out to battle and all the congregation. 2823Levy a tax for the Lord from the men of war who went out to battle, one 24in 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 25offering 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 26keep 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 27men 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 28intimately, all the persons were 32,000.