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

And Moses sent them, one thousand from each tribe, to the war, and Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, to the war with them, and the holy vessels and the trumpets for the alarm in his hand.

But all the girls who have not known man intimately, spare for yourselves.

And you shall purify for yourselves every garment and every article of leather and all the work of goats' hair and all articles of wood."

everything that can stand the fire, you shall pass through the fire, and it shall be clean, but it shall be purified with water for impurity. But whatever cannot stand the fire you shall pass through the water.

And you shall exact a levy for Yahweh from the men of war who went out to battle, one in five hundred of the persons and of the cattle and of the donkeys and of the sheep;

As for the sons of Israel's half, which Moses separated from the men who had gone to war—

So we have brought near as an offering to Yahweh what each man found—articles of gold, armlets and bracelets, signet rings, earrings and necklaces—to make atonement for ourselves before Yahweh."

The men of war had taken plunder, every man for himself.

So Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold from the commanders of thousands and of hundreds, and they brought it to the tent of meeting as a memorial for the sons of Israel before Yahweh.

Now the sons of Reuben and the sons of Gad had an exceedingly large number of livestock. And they saw the land of Jazer and the land of Gilead, that it was indeed a place suitable for livestock,

the land, which Yahweh struck before the congregation of Israel, is a land for livestock, and your servants have livestock."

‘None of the men who came up from Egypt, from twenty years old and upward, shall see the land which I swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob; for they did not follow Me fully,

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

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

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

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

So Moses said to them, "If you will do this, if you will arm yourselves before Yahweh for the war,

and the land is subdued before Yahweh, then afterward you shall return and be free of obligation toward Yahweh and toward Israel, and this land shall be yours for a possession before Yahweh.

Build yourselves cities for your little ones and sheepfolds for your sheep, and do what you have promised."