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And one he-goat of the first year for a sin offering; besides the continual burnt offering, its meal offering, and its drink offering.

Their meal offering and their drink offering for the bullock, for the ram, and for the lambs, according to their number, according to the ritual;

And one goat of the first year for a sin offering; besides the continual burnt offering and its meal offering and its drink offering.

And Moses said to the people, Arm some of the men from among you for the host, and let them go against the Midianites to avenge the LORD against Midian.

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

For it was they who caused the children of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to commit trespass against the LORD in the matter of Peor, and there was a plague in the congregation of the LORD.

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

And as for you, you shall abide outside the camp seven days; whosoever has killed any person and whosoever has touched any slain purify both yourselves and your captives on the third day and on the seventh day,

Everything that may abide the fire, you shall make it to go through the fire and it shall be clean; nevertheless it shall be purified with the water which is used for cleansing; and all that cannot abide the fire, you shall make pass through the water.

And levy a tribute for the LORD from the men of war who went out to battle; out of all the congregation, one person of every five hundred, both of the persons and of the oxen and of the asses and of the sheep;

We have therefore brought as an offering for the LORD what every man has found, articles of gold, ankle chains, and bracelets, rings, earrings, and necklaces, to make atonement for our souls before the LORD.

(For the men of war had plundered every man for himself.)

And Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold from commanders of thousands and from captains 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, behold, the place was a place for cattle;

The land which the LORD smote before the children of Israel is a land for cattle, and your servants have cattle;

Wherefore, they said, if we have found mercy in your sight, let this land be given to your servants for a possession, and bring us not across the Jordan.

For when they went up as far as the valley of Segola, and spied out 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.

Except Caleb the son of Jophaniah the Kenezite and Joshua the son of Nun; for they have wholly followed the LORD.

For if you turn away from after the LORD, he will again make you wander in the wilderness; and you shall destroy all this people.

Then they came near to him and said, We will build sheepfolds here for our cattle and cities for our little ones;