Numbers 31:7-35

7And they warred against the Midianites, just as the Lord commanded Moses, and they killed all the males.

8They killed the kings of Midian with the rest of those who were killed—Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba, the five kings of Midian. Balaam the son of Beor they also killed with the sword.

9And the children of Israel took the women of Midian captive, with their little ones, and took as spoil all their cattle, all their flocks, and all their goods.

10They also burned with fire all the cities where they dwelt, and all their forts.

11And they took all the spoil and all the booty—of man and beast.

12Then they brought the captives, the booty, and the spoil to Moses, to Eleazar the priest, and to the congregation of the children of Israel, to the camp in the plains of Moab by the Jordan, across from Jericho.

13And Moses, Eleazar the priest, and all the leaders of the congregation, went to meet them outside the camp.

14But Moses was angry with the officers of the army, with the captains over thousands and captains over hundreds, who had come from the battle.

15And Moses said to them: “Have you kept all the women alive?

16Look, these women caused the children of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to trespass against the Lord in the incident of Peor, and there was a plague among the congregation of the Lord.

17Now therefore, kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who has known a man intimately.

18But keep alive for yourselves all the young girls who have not known a man intimately.

19And as for you, remain outside the camp seven days; whoever has killed any person, and whoever has touched any slain, purify yourselves and your captives on the third day and on the seventh day.

20Purify every garment, everything made of leather, everything woven of goats’ hair, and everything made of wood.”

21Then Eleazar the priest said to the men of war who had gone to the battle, “This is the ordinance of the law which the Lord commanded Moses:

22Only the gold, the silver, the bronze, the iron, the tin, and the lead,

23everything that can endure fire, you shall put through the fire, and it shall be clean; and it shall be purified with the water of purification. But all that cannot endure fire you shall put through water.

24And you shall wash your clothes on the seventh day and be clean, and afterward you may come into the camp.”

25Now the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

26“Count up the plunder that was taken—of man and beast—you and Eleazar the priest and the chief fathers of the congregation;

27and divide the plunder into two parts, between those who took part in the war, who went out to battle, and all the congregation.

28And levy a tribute for the Lord on the men of war who went out to battle: one of every five hundred of the persons, the cattle, the donkeys, and the sheep;

29take it from their half, and give it to Eleazar the priest as a heave offering to the Lord.

30And from the children of Israel’s half you shall take one of every fifty, drawn from the persons, the cattle, the donkeys, and the sheep, from all the livestock, and give them to the Levites who keep charge of the tabernacle of the Lord.”

31So Moses and Eleazar the priest did as the Lord commanded Moses.

32The booty remaining from the plunder, which the men of war had taken, was six hundred and seventy-five thousand sheep,

33seventy-two thousand cattle,

34sixty-one thousand donkeys,

35and thirty-two thousand persons in all, of women who had not known a man intimately.