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Numbers 31:1

Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

Numbers 31:2

"Take vengeance on the Midianites for the sons of Israel; afterward you will be gathered to your people."

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Numbers 31:3

So Moses spoke to the people, saying, "Arm men from among you for the war, so that they may go against Midian to execute the LORD'S vengeance on Midian.

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Numbers 31:4

"You shall send a thousand from each tribe of all the tribes of Israel to the war."

Numbers 31:5

So there were selected from the thousands of Israel, a thousand from each tribe, twelve thousand armed for war.

Numbers 31:6

And Moses sent them, a thousand from each tribe, to the war, and Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, to the war with them, and the holy implements and the trumpets for the alarm in his hand.

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Numbers 31:7

So they made war against Midian, just as the LORD had commanded Moses, and they killed every male.

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Numbers 31:8

They killed the kings of Midian along with the rest of those killed: Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba, the five kings of Midian. They also killed Balaam the son of Beor with the sword.

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Numbers 31:9

And the sons of Israel took captive the women of Midian and their little ones; and they plundered all their cattle, all their flocks, and all their property.

Numbers 31:10

Then they burned all their cities where they lived and all their encampments.

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Numbers 31:11

And they took all the plunder and all the spoils, both of people and of livestock.

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Numbers 31:12

They brought the captives and the spoils and the plunder to Moses, 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.

Numbers 31:13

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

Numbers 31:14

But Moses was angry with the officers of the army, the commanders of thousands and the commanders of hundreds, who had come from service in the war.

Numbers 31:15

And Moses said to them, "Have you spared all the women?

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Numbers 31:16

"Behold, they caused the sons of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to be unfaithful to the LORD in the matter of Peor, so that the plague took place among the congregation of the LORD!

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Numbers 31:17

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

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Numbers 31:18

"However, all the girls who have not known a man intimately, keep alive for yourselves.

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