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Their meat-offering and their drink-offerings for the bullock, for the ram, and for the lambs, [shall be] according to their number, after the manner:

And one goat [for] a sin-offering; besides the continual burnt-offering, and its meat-offering, and its drink-offering.

These [things] ye shall do to the LORD in your set feasts, besides your vows, and your free-will-offerings, for your burnt-offerings, and for your meat-offerings, and for your drink-offerings, and for your peace-offerings.

And Moses spoke to the people, saying, Arm some of yourselves for the war, and let them go against the Midianites, and avenge the LORD on Midian.

So there were delivered out of the thousands of Israel, a thousand of [every] tribe, twelve thousand armed for war.

But all the female children, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.

Take [it] of their half, and give [it] to Eleazar the priest, [for] a heave-offering of the LORD.

We have therefore brought an oblation for the LORD, what every man hath obtained of jewels of gold, chains, and bracelets, rings, ear-rings, and tablets, to make an atonement for our souls before the LORD.

([For] the men of war had taken spoil, every man for himself.)

And Moses and 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 for the children of Israel before the LORD.

Now the children of Reuben and the children of Gad had a very great multitude of cattle: and when they saw the land of Jazer, and the land of Gilead, that behold, the place [was] a place for cattle;

[Even] the country which the LORD smote before the congregation of Israel, [is] a land for cattle, and thy servants have cattle:

Wherefore, said they, if we have found grace in thy sight, let this land be given to thy servants for a possession, [and] bring us not over Jordan.

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

Save Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenezite, and Joshua the son of Nun: for they have wholly followed the LORD.

For if ye turn away from after him, he will yet again leave them in the wilderness; and he will destroy all this people.

And they came near to him, and said, We will build sheep-folds here for our cattle, and cities for our little ones:

For we will not inherit with them on the other side of Jordan, or forward; because our inheritance hath fallen to us on this side of Jordan eastward.

Build you cities for your little ones, and folds for your sheep; and do that which hath proceeded out of your mouth.

But thy servants will pass over, every man armed for war, before the LORD to battle, as my lord saith.