host, and of the battle, 15. And said unto them: Why have ye let all the women live?

Behold, did not the children of Israel, by the counsel of Balaam, turn away to sin against the LORD above Peor, and a plague befell the congregation of the LORD?

Slay therefore all that are male among the children, and all the women which men have known, and which have been with them;

But every child that is a woman, and hath not known nor been with men, let him live unto you.

And ye shall lie down without the camp seven days, all ye that have slain, or touched them
that were slain; and ye shall repent yourselves the third day, and the seventh day, with them that are taken captives.

And all garments, and all vessels of skins, and all furs, and all vessels of oil, shall ye uncover.

And Eleazar the priest said unto the people of war that were at war, This is the law which the LORD commanded Moses:

gold, silver, ore, iron, tin and lead

And all that suffereth fire ye shall pass through the fire, and purify it, that it may be purged with the water of separation. But all that suffereth not fire ye shall pass through water.

And ye shall wash your clothes the seventh day, and be clean: afterward ye shall come into the camp.

And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying:

Take the sum of the spoil of the captives, both of men and cattle, thou, and Eleazar the priest, and the chief fathers of the congregation,

And give half to them that went out to the army, and did the battle, and the other half to the congregation.

And thou shalt raise up unto the LORD of the men of war that are gone out to the army one soul every five hundred, both of men, and of oxen, and of asses, and of sheep.

Of their half shalt thou take, and give unto Eleazar the priest to heave unto the LORD.

And of the half of the children of Israel thou shalt take of every fifty a piece of goods, both of men, and of oxen, and of asses, and of sheep, and of all cattle, and shalt give them unto the Levites, which keep the charge of the tabernacle of the LORD.

And Moses and Eleazar the priest did as the LORD commanded Moses.

And the rest of the spoil which the people of war had taken were six hundred and five and fifty thousand sheep,

Seventy-two thousand head of cattle,

Sixty-one thousand asses

And of the women that were not known to men, nor that were with them, thirty and two thousand souls.

And the half that belonged to them that went forth into the army were in number three hundred and thirty and seven thousand and five hundred sheep.

Of which there were unto the LORD six hundred and seventy and five sheep.

And there were thirty and six thousand oxen, of which seventy and two were given unto the LORD.

Item, thirty thousand and five hundred asses; of which one~ and sixty were given to the LORD.

Item, souls of men, sixteen thousand souls; of which thirty and two were given unto the LORD.

And Moses gave the heave of the LORD unto Eleazar the priest, as the LORD commanded him.

But the other half, which Moses allotted unto the children of Israel of the men of war 43. namely, half of the congregation in charge, was also three hundred times, and thirty and seven thousand five hundred sheep,

Thirty-six thousand head of cattle,

thirty thousand and five hundred asses

and sixteen thousand souls of men.

And Moses took of this half of the children of Israel a piece of fifty, both of cattle and of men, and gave them unto the Levites that kept the guard at the tabernacle of the LORD, as the LORD commanded Moses.

And the captains of thousands of the people of war, that is, of thousands and hundreds, came unto Moses.

And they said unto him, Thy servants have taken the sum of the men of war that were under our hands, and there lacketh not one.

Wherefore we bring unto the LORD gifts, every man’s vessels of gold, chains, bracelets, rings, earrings, and clasps, that our souls may be reconciled unto the LORD.

And Moses took of them, and Eleazar the priest, the gold of all the vessels.

And all the gold that they brought unto the LORD was sixteen thousand and seven hundred and fifty shekels of the captains of thousands and hundreds.

For the men of war had spoiled every man for himself.

And Moses with Eleazar the priest took the gold of the captains of thousands and of hundreds, and brought it into the tabernacle of the congregation for a memorial of the children of Israel before the LORD.
(Numbers)
Chapter 32
A beginning is made to the possession of the land of Canaan.

And the children of Reuben and the children of Gad had much cattle, and looked upon the land of Jaesher and Gilead for a convenient place for their cattle;

And they came and spake unto Moses, and to Eleazar the priest, and to the princes of the congregation:

The land of Ataroth, Dibon, Jaeser, Nimrah, Heshbon, Eleale, Zebam, Nebo, and Beon, 4. Which the LORD hath smitten before the congregation of Israel, it is convenient for cattle: and we thy servants have cattle.

And they said, If we have found grace in thy sight, let this land be given unto thy servants, and let us not pass over Jordan.

And Moses said unto them: Your brethren shall go to battle, and ye will tarry here?

Why do ye harden the hearts of the children of Israel, that they go not over into the land which the LORD shall give them?

So did your fathers, when I sent them forth from Kadeshbarnea, to see the land; 9. And when they were come up to the brook Eshcol, and saw the land, they made the heart of the children of Israel to turn, that they would not enter into the land which the LORD would give them.

And the anger of the LORD was kindled at that time, and he sware, and said: 11. For these men which came out of Egypt, from twenty years old and upward, shall not see the land which I sware unto Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, because they followed me not faithfully;

Except Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenezite, and Joshua the son of Nun: for they followed the LORD faithfully.

So the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and he made them wander in the wilderness forty years, until there was an end of all the generation that had done evil in the sight of the LORD.

And, behold, ye are come up in the place of your fathers, that there should be more sinners, and that ye should provoke the anger and wrath of the LORD against Israel.

For wheresoever ye turn from him, he will also longer leave them in the wilderness, and ye shall destroy all this people.

And they came near, and said: We will build flocks here for our cattle, and cities for our children;

And we will prepare ourselves before the children of Israel, until we bring them into their place. Our children shall dwell in the cities that are shut up, because of the inhabitants of the land.

We will not return until the children of Israel take every man his inheritance.

For we will not inherit with them on the other side Jordan: but our inheritance shall fall unto us on this side Jordan toward the east.

And Moses said unto them: If ye will do this thing, to prepare yourselves to battle before the LORD,

Then pass over Jordan before the LORD, he that is armed among you, until he cast out his enemies from before his face,

And the land shall be subdued before the LORD: afterward ye shall return, and be blameless before the LORD, and before Israel; and ye shall inherit this land before the LORD.

But if ye will not do so, behold, ye shall sin against the LORD, and shall know your sin when it findeth you.

Now therefore build ye cities for your children, and hedges for your cattle, and do according to all that ye have spoken.

And the children of Gad and the children of Reuben said unto Moses, Thy servants shall do as my lord hath commanded.

Our children, our wives, our goods, and all our cattle, shall be in the cities of Gilead; 27. And we thy servants will all go armed to battle before the LORD, as my lord hath spoken.

And Moses commanded Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun, and the chief fathers of the tribes of the children of Israel, on that occasion.
29: And he said unto them: When the children of Gad and the children of Reuben pass over Jordan with you, all armed for war before the LORD, and the land is subject unto you, then give them the land of Gilead for their possession.

And if they draw not with you, then they shall inherit with you in the land of Canaan.

And the children of Gad and the children of Reuben answered and said: As the LORD spake unto thy servants, so will we do.

We will go armed before the LORD into the land of Canaan, and possess our inheritance on this side Jordan.

And Moses gave unto the children of Gad, and unto the children of Reuben, and unto the half tribe of Manasseh the son of Joseph, the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, and the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, the land and the cities throughout all the coasts thereof.

And the children of Gad built Dibon, and