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and one male goat as a sin offering, besides the continual burnt offering, its grain offering, and its drink offering.

'On the eighth day you shall have a sacred assembly; you shall do no laborious work.

'But you shall present a burnt offering, an offering by fire, as a soothing aroma to the LORD: one bull, one ram, and seven male lambs one year old without defect;

and one male goat as a sin offering, besides the continual burnt offering and its grain offering, and its drink offering.

"If a man makes a vow to the LORD, or takes an oath to put himself under a binding obligation, he shall not break his word; he shall act in accordance with everything that comes out of his mouth.

"And if a woman makes a vow to the LORD, and puts herself under a binding obligation in her father's house in her youth,

"But as for the vow of a widow or of a divorced woman, every binding obligation under which she has put herself, shall remain valid against her.

"However, if a married woman vowed in her husband's house, or put herself under a binding obligation with an oath,

These are the statutes which the LORD commanded Moses concerning matters between a man and his wife, and between a father and his daughter while she is in her youth in her father's house.

"You shall send a thousand from each tribe of all the tribes of Israel to the war."

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

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

"Now therefore, kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who has known a man intimately.

"However, all the girls who have not known a man intimately, keep alive for yourselves.

"And as for you, camp outside the camp for seven days; whoever has killed a person and whoever has touched anyone killed, purify yourselves, you and your captives, on the third day and on the seventh day.

"You and Eleazar the priest and the heads of the fathers' households of the congregation take a count of the spoils that were captured, both of people and of livestock;

"Also, collect a tribute tax for the LORD from the men of war who went to battle, one in five hundred of the persons, of the cattle, of the donkeys, and of the sheep;

and of captive people, of the women who had not known a man intimately, in all were thirty-two thousand people.

and they said to Moses, "Your servants have taken a census of the men of war who are under our authority, and no man of us is missing.

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