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So out of the thousands of Israel, a thousand from each tribe were conscripted, twelve thousand armed for battle.

Moses sent them to the war, a thousand from each tribe, along with Phinehas son of Eleazar the priest, with the vessels of the sanctuary and the trumpets for sounding the alarm in his hand.

But all the young girls who have not known a man by sleeping with him, keep alive for yourselves.

everything that can withstand fire, shall be passed through fire, and it shall be clean. Nevertheless it shall also be purified with the water for purification; and whatever cannot withstand fire, shall be passed through the water.

From the share of the warriors who went out to battle, set aside as tribute for the Lord , one item out of every five hundred, whether persons, oxen, donkeys, sheep, or goats.

Moses gave the tribute, the offering for the Lord , to Eleazar the priest, as the Lord had commanded Moses.

As for the Israelites' half, which Moses separated from that of the troops,

And we have brought the Lord 's offering, what each of us found, articles of gold, armlets and bracelets, signet rings, earrings, and pendants, to make atonement for ourselves before the Lord ."

(The troops had all taken plunder for themselves.)

So Moses and Eleazar the priest received the gold from the commanders of thousands and of hundreds, and brought it into the tent of meeting as a memorial for the Israelites before the Lord .

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,

the land that the Lord subdued before the congregation of Israel—is a land for cattle; and your servants have cattle."

They continued, "If we have found favor in your sight, let this land be given to your servants for a possession; do not make us cross the Jordan."

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

And the Lord 's anger was kindled against Israel, and he made them wander in the wilderness for forty years, until all the generation that had done evil in the sight of the Lord had disappeared.

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

So Moses said to them, "If you do this—if you take up arms to go before the Lord for the war,

Build towns for your little ones, and folds for your flocks; but do what you have promised."

but your servants will cross over, everyone armed for war, to do battle for the Lord , just as my lord orders."

And Moses said to them, "If the Gadites and the Reubenites, everyone armed for battle before the Lord , will cross over the Jordan with you and the land shall be subdued before you, then you shall give them the land of Gilead for a possession;