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You shall offer an offering by fire, a burnt offering to the Lord : two young bulls, one ram, and seven male lambs a year old; see that they are without blemish.

In addition to the regular burnt offering with its grain offering, you shall offer them and their drink offering. They shall be without blemish.

They did battle against Midian, as the Lord had commanded Moses, and killed every male.

They killed the kings of Midian: Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba, the five kings of Midian, in addition to others who were slain by them; and they also killed Balaam son of Beor with the sword.

The Israelites took the women of Midian and their little ones captive; and they took all their cattle, their flocks, and all their goods as booty.

All their towns where they had settled, and all their encampments, they burned,

but they took all the spoil and all the booty, both people and animals.

Then they brought the captives and the booty and the spoil to Moses, to Eleazar the priest, and to the congregation of the Israelites, at the camp on the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho.

And all the gold of the offering that they offered to the Lord , from the commanders of thousands and the commanders of hundreds, was sixteen thousand seven hundred fifty shekels.

Now the Reubenites and the Gadites owned a very great number of cattle. When they saw that the land of Jazer and the land of Gilead was a good place for cattle,

When they went up to the Wadi Eshcol and saw the land, they discouraged the hearts of the Israelites from going into the land that the Lord had given them.

‘Surely none of the people who came up out of Egypt, from twenty years old and upward, shall see the land that I swore to give to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, because they have not unreservedly followed me—

none except Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite and Joshua son of Nun, for they have unreservedly followed the Lord .'

Then they came up to him and said, "We will build sheepfolds here for our flocks, and towns for our little ones,

Nebo, and Baal-meon (some names being changed), and Sibmah; and they gave names to the towns that they rebuilt.

They set out from Succoth, and camped at Etham, which is on the edge of the wilderness.

They set out from Etham, and turned back to Pi-hahiroth, which faces Baal-zephon; and they camped before Migdol.

They set out from Pi-hahiroth, passed through the sea into the wilderness, went a three days' journey in the wilderness of Etham, and camped at Marah.

They set out from Marah and came to Elim; at Elim there were twelve springs of water and seventy palm trees, and they camped there.

They set out from Elim and camped by the Red Sea.