Numbers - Ferrar Fenton Bible Translation page 163

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81-47 1 8 20 and Aliazcr the priest, and to the Parliament of the children of Israel, along with the plunder, and the booty, to the camp at the Fords of Moab, which was beside the Torrent near Jeriko. Then Moses and Aliazer the priest,

with all the princes ofthe Parliament went out to meet them outsidelthe camp. But Moses was angry with the omcers of the army, the colonels of regiments, and captains of com·- panies, who returned with the army from the war, and Moses asked them; ‘ Why have you kept the women

a1i9e? What were they to the chil- dren of Israel under the advice of Balaam ?·--They seduced them to desert the EvER~L1v1No in the affair of Peor, and they brought a pestilence upon the congregation of ]E1—10vAH. Now, therefore, kill every male child, and every woman who has known man sexually,-—ki1ll But let every young girl who has not known a man sexually live for yourselves. Also pitch your tents outside the camp for seven days, all who have killed a person, or been wounded in battle. You must be cleansed from de£ile· ment at the sixth day, and on the seventh day, you and your prisoners, and all your clothing and every article of leather, and all fabrics of hair, and every article of wood, shall be cleansed. Wye Zeb nf §ri5z in War, mth its 21 22 §¤rifiratim:. Then Aliazer the priest said to the

commanders of the army who came This is the Constitu- tional Law which the Evmz-Lrvmo has commanded to Moses; All the gold and the silver, and the brass, and the iron, the tin, and the lead, all things which can resist hre, you shall put through the nre to purify them; but everything that is not able to endure hre shall be cleansed by passing through water, by washing in water. You shall also wash your clothes on the seventh day, and purify yourselves, and afterwards you may enter the camp. isb of Qihihing §¤¤tn nf War. 25 The Evnxmivme also spoke to Moses and said; You, and Aliazer, and the princes of the fathers of the Parliament, take an account of the booty of the pri- soners; both of the men and of the cattle, and divide the booty among 27 the captors of the brigade who brought it from the campaign, and among all their people. But take off a tax from 28 them for the EVER-LIVLNG from the soldiers who actually went into battle, one head from nve hundred of the men, and of the cattle, and ofthe asses, and of the sheep. You shall take it from their share, and give it to Aliazer the priest, as a tax for the Evniz-uvmo. But from the share for the children of Israel you shall take one from every Efty of the men, ofthe cattle, and of the asses, and of the sheep, and from all the animals, and give them to the Levites who form the guard of the sanctuary of ° the Evan-1.1vmo.’ Moses and Aliazer therefore did as

JEHOVAH commanded to Moses; and the prize, beside the plunder that the People plundered in the army,—was of sheep six hundred and seventy- tive thousand, and of cattle seventy- two thousand; and of asses sixty-one thousand, and of persons, with the girls who had not known man sexu- ally, all the human individuals were thirty—two thousand. But the half of the booty that came

to the army was ;—-from the number of sheep three hundred and thirty- seven thousand, and nve hundred. And the tax of the Loan from the sheep was six hundred and seventy- five ; and of cattle thirty—six thousand ; and the tax to the Loran seventy—two. And of asses thirty thousand and live hundred; and the tax for the Loan was sixty-one. And of human beings, sixteen thousand; and the tax for the Evan-Livmo thirty—two persons. And Moses gave the taxes which

were the LOR¤'s, as a raised offering, to Aliazer the priest, as the EVER- Lrvxuooommanded to Moses. 33 34 35 37 39

But the portion of the children of 42 Israel, which Moses took from the soldiers, and which was the share of 43 the Parliament,——wasof sheep three hundred and thirty-seven thousand, and nve hundred; and of cattle, 44 thirty-six thousand, and of asses 45 thirty thousand, Eve hundred ‘; and of 46 human beings sixteen thousand. 47 Moses also took from this share of the children of Israel one from every :63