Study Desk

and their grain offering and their drink offerings for the bull, for the ram, and for the lambs, by their number, according to the ordinance;

"Take vengeance on the Midianites for the children of Israel. Afterward you shall be gathered to your people."

So Moses spoke to the people, saying, "Arm some of yourselves for war, and let them go against the Midianites to take vengeance for the LORD on Midian.

So there were recruited from the divisions of Israel one thousand from each tribe, twelve thousand armed for war.

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

And 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.

And 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;

And the half, the portion for those who had gone out to war, was in number three hundred and thirty-seven thousand five hundred sheep;

Therefore we have brought an offering for the LORD, what every man found of ornaments of gold: armlets and bracelets and signet rings and earrings and necklaces, to make atonement for ourselves before the LORD."

(The men of war had taken spoil, every man for himself.)

And Moses and Eleazar the priest received the gold from the captains of thousands and of hundreds, and brought it into the tabernacle of meeting as a memorial for the children of Israel before the LORD.

Deuteronomy 3:12-22">[xr] Now the children of Reuben and the children of Gad had a very great multitude of livestock; and when they saw the land of Jazer and the land of Gilead, that indeed the region was a place for livestock,

the country which the LORD defeated before the congregation of Israel, is a land for livestock, and your servants have livestock."

For when they went up to the Valley of Eshcol and saw the land, they discouraged the heart of the children of Israel, so that they did not go into the land which the LORD had given them.

except Caleb the son of Jephunneh, the Kenizzite, and Joshua the son of Nun, for they have wholly followed the LORD.'

For if you turn away from following Him, He will once again leave them in the wilderness, and you will destroy all these people."

Then they came near to him and said: "We will build sheepfolds here for our livestock, and cities for our little ones,

For we will not inherit with them on the other side of the Jordan and beyond, because our inheritance has fallen to us on this eastern side of the Jordan."

Then Moses said to them: "If you do this thing, if you arm yourselves before the LORD for the war,

Build cities for your little ones and folds for your sheep, and do what has proceeded out of your mouth."