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> 30:2
And Moses spoke unto the heads of the tribes of the children of
Israel, saying: This is the thing which the LORD hath commanded. 30:3
When a man voweth a vow unto the LORD, or sweareth an oath to bind
his soul with a bond, he shall not break his word; he shall do
according to all that proceedeth out of his mouth. 30:4 Also when a
woman voweth a vow unto the LORD, and bindeth herself by a bond,
being in her father's house, in her youth, 30:5 and her father
heareth her vow, or her bond wherewith she hath bound her soul, and
her father holdeth his peace at her, then all her vows shall stand,
and every bond wherewith she hath bound her soul shall stand. 30:6
But if her father disallow her in the day that he heareth, none of
her vows, or of her bonds wherewith she hath bound her soul, shall
stand; and the LORD will forgive her, because her father disallowed
her. 30:7 And if she be married to a husband, while her vows are upon
her, or the clear utterance of her lips, wherewith she hath bound her
soul; 30:8 and her husband hear it, whatsoever day it be that he
heareth it, and hold his peace at her; then her vows shall stand, and
her bonds wherewith she hath bound her soul shall stand. 30:9 But if
her husband disallow her in the day that he heareth it, then he shall
make void her vow which is upon her, and the clear utterance of her
lips, wherewith she hath bound her soul; and the LORD will forgive
her. 30:10 But the vow of a widow, or of her that is divorced, even
every thing wherewith she hath bound her soul, shall stand against
her. 30:11 And if a woman vowed in her husband's house, or bound her
soul by a bond with an oath, 30:12 and her husband heard it, and held
his peace at her, and disallowed her not, then all her vows shall
stand, and every bond wherewith she bound her soul shall stand. 30:13
But if her husband make them null and void in the day that he heareth
them, then whatsoever proceeded out of her lips, whether it were her
vows, or the bond of her soul, shall not stand: her husband hath made
them void; and the LORD will forgive her. 30:14 Every vow, and every
binding oath to afflict the soul, her husband may let it stand, or
her husband may make it void. 30:15 But if her husband altogether
hold his peace at her from day to day, then he causeth all her vows
to stand, or all her bonds, which are upon her; he hath let them
stand, because he held his peace at her in the day that he heard
them. 30:16 But if he shall make them null and void after that he
hath heard them, then he shall bear her iniquity. 30:17 These are the
statutes, which the LORD commanded Moses, between a man and his wife,
between a father and his daughter, being in her youth, in her
father's house.
> 31:1
And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying: 31:2 'Avenge the children of
Israel of the Midianites; afterward shalt thou be gathered unto thy
people.' 31:3 And Moses spoke unto the people, saying: 'Arm ye men
from among you for the war, that they may go against Midian, to
execute the LORD'S vengeance on Midian. 31:4 Of every tribe a
thousand, throughout all the tribes of Israel, shall ye send to the
war.' 31:5 So there were delivered, out of the thousands of Israel, a
thousand of every tribe, twelve thousand armed for war. 31:6 And
Moses sent them, a thousand of every tribe, to the war, them and
Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, to the war, with the holy
vessels and the trumpets for the alarm in his hand. 31:7 And they
warred against Midian, as the LORD commanded Moses; and they slew
every male. 31:8 And they slew the kings of Midian with the rest of
their slain: Evi, and Rekem, and Zur, and Hur, and Reba, the five
kings of Midian; Balaam also the son of Beor they slew with the
sword. 31:9 And the children of Israel took captive the women of
Midian and their little ones; and all their cattle, and all their
flocks, and all their goods, they took for a prey. 31:10 And all
their cities in the places wherein they dwelt, and all their
encampments, they burnt with fire. 31:11 And they took all the spoil,
and all the prey, both of man and of beast. 31:12 And they brought
the captives, and the prey, and the spoil, unto Moses, and unto
Eleazar the priest, and unto the congregation of the children of
Israel, unto the camp, unto the plains of Moab, which are by the
Jordan at Jericho. 31:13 And Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and all
the princes of the congregation, went forth to meet them without the
camp. 31:14 And Moses was wroth with the officers of the host, the
captains of thousands and the captains of hundreds, who came from the
service of the war. 31:15 And Moses said unto them: 'Have ye saved
all the women alive? 31:16 Behold, these caused the children of
Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to revolt so as to break faith
with the LORD in the matter of Peor, and so the plague was among the
congregation of the LORD. 31:17 Now therefore kill every male among
the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying
with him. 31:18 But all the women children, that have not known man
by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves. 31:19 And encamp ye
without the camp seven days; whosoever hath killed any person, and
whosoever hath touched any slain, purify yourselves on the third day
and on the seventh day, ye and your captives. 31:20 And as to every
garment, and all that is made of skin, and all work of goats' hair,
and all things made of wood, ye shall purify.'
> 31:21 And
Eleazar the priest said unto the men of war that went to the battle:
'This is the statute of the law which the LORD hath commanded Moses:
31:22 Howbeit the gold, and the silver, the brass, the iron, the tin,
and the lead, 31:23 every thing that may abide the fire, ye shall
make to go through the fire, and it shall be clean; nevertheless it
shall be purified with the water of sprinkling; and all that abideth
not the fire ye shall make to go through the water. 31:24 And ye
shall wash your clothes on the seventh day, and ye shall be clean,
and afterward ye may come into the camp.'
> 31:25 And the LORD
spoke unto Moses, saying: 31:26 'Take the sum of the prey that was
taken, both of man and of beast, thou, and Eleazar the priest, and
the heads of the fathers' houses of the congregation; 31:27 and
divide the prey into two parts: between the men skilled in war, that
went out to battle, and all the congregation; 31:28 and levy a
tribute unto the LORD of the men of war that went out to battle: one
soul of five hundred, both of the persons, and of the beeves, and of
the asses, and of the flocks; 31:29 take it of their half, and give
it unto Eleazar the priest, as a portion set apart for the LORD.
31:30 And of the children of Israel's half, thou shalt take one drawn
out of every fifty, of the persons, of the beeves, of the asses, and
of the flocks, even of all the cattle, and give them unto the
Levites, that keep the charge of the tabernacle of the LORD.' 31:31
And Moses and Eleazar the priest did as the LORD commanded Moses.
31:32 Now the prey, over and above the booty which the men of war
took, was six hundred thousand and seventy thousand and five thousand
sheep, 31:33 and threescore and twelve thousand beeves, 31:34 and
threescore and one thousand asses, 31:35 and thirty and two thousand
persons in all, of the women that had not known man by lying with
him. 31:36 And the half, which was the portion of them that went out
to war, was in number three hundred thousand and thirty thousand and
seven thousand and five hundred sheep. 31:37 And the LORD'S tribute
of the sheep was six hundred and threescore and fifteen. 31:38 And
the beeves were thirty and six thousand, of which the LORD'S tribute
was threescore and twelve. 31:39 And the asses were thirty thousand
and five hundred, of which the LORD'S tribute was threescore and one.
31:40 And the persons were sixteen thousand, of whom the LORD'S
tribute was thirty and two persons. 31:41 And Moses gave the tribute,
which was set apart for the LORD, unto Eleazar the priest, as the
LORD commanded Moses. 31:42 And of the children of Israel's half,
which Moses divided off from the men that warred-- 31:43 now the
congregation's half was three hundred thousand and thirty thousand
and seven thousand and five hundred sheep, 31:44 and thirty and six
thousand beeves, 31:45 and thirty thousand and five hundred asses,
31:46 and sixteen thousand persons-- 31:47 even of the children of
Israel's half, Moses took one drawn out of every fifty, both of man
and of beast, and gave them unto the Levites, that kept the charge of
the tabernacle of the LORD; as the LORD commanded Moses.
>
31:48 And the officers that were over the thousands of the host, the
captains of thousands, and the captains of hundreds, came near unto
Moses; 31:49 and they said unto Moses: 'Thy servants have taken the
sum of the men of war that are under our charge, and there lacketh
not one man of us. 31:50 And we have brought the LORD'S offering,
what every man hath gotten, of jewels of gold, armlets, and
bracelets, signet-rings, ear-rings, and girdles, to make atonement
for our souls before the LORD.' 31:51 And Moses and Eleazar the
priest took the gold of them, even all wrought jewels. 31:52 And all
the gold of the gift that they set apart for the LORD, of the
captains of thousands, and of the captains of hundreds, was sixteen
thousand seven hundred and fifty shekels.-- 31:53 For the men of war
had taken booty, every man for himself.-- 31:54 And Moses and Eleazar
the priest took the gold of the captains of thousands and of
hundreds, and brought it into the tent of meeting, for a memorial for
the children of Israel before the LORD.
> 32:1
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, that, behold, the place was a place for cattle, 32:2
the children of Gad and the children of Reuben came and spoke unto
Moses, and to Eleazar the priest, and unto the princes of the
congregation, saying: 32:3 'Ataroth, and Dibon, and Jazer, and
Nimrah, and Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Sebam, and Nebo, and Beon, 32:4
the land which the LORD smote before the congregation of Israel, is a
land for cattle, and thy servants have cattle.' 32:5 And they said:
'If we have found favour in thy sight, let this land be given unto
thy servants for a possession; bring us not over the Jordan.' 32:6
And Moses said unto the children of Gad and to the children of
Reuben: 'Shall your brethren go to the war, and shall ye sit here?
32:7 And wherefore will ye turn away the heart of the children of
Israel from going over into the land which the LORD hath given them?
32:8 Thus did your fathers, when I sent them from Kadesh-barnea to
see the land. 32:9 For when they went up unto the valley of Eshcol,
and saw the land, they turned away the heart of the children of
Israel, that they should not go into the land which the LORD had
given them. 32:10 And the LORD'S anger was kindled in that day, and
He swore, saying: 32:11 Surely none of the men that came up out of
Egypt, from twenty years old and upward, shall see the land which I
swore unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob; because they have not
wholly followed Me; 32:12 save Caleb the son of Jephunneh the
Kenizzite, and Joshua the son of Nun; because they have wholly
followed the LORD. 32:13 And the LORD'S anger was kindled against
Israel, and He made them wander to and fro in the wilderness forty
years, until all the generation, that had done evil in the sight of
the LORD, was consumed. 32:14 And, behold, ye are risen up in your
fathers' stead, a brood of sinful men, to augment yet the fierce
anger of the LORD toward Israel. 32:15 For if ye turn away from after
Him, He will yet again leave them in the wilderness; and so ye will
destroy all this people.'
> 32:16 And they came near unto him,
and said: 'We will build sheepfolds here for our cattle, and cities
for our little ones; 32:17 but we ourselves will be ready armed to go
before the children of Israel, until we have brought them unto their
place; and our little ones shall dwell in the fortified cities
because of the inhabitants of the land. 32:18 We will not return unto
our houses, until the children of Israel have inherited every man his
inheritance. 32:19 For we will not inherit with them on the other
side of the Jordan, and forward, because our inheritance is fallen to
us on this side of the Jordan eastward.'
> 32:20 And Moses
said unto them: 'If ye will do this thing: if ye will arm yourselves
to go before the LORD to the war, 32:21 and every armed man of you
will pass over the Jordan before the LORD, until He hath driven out
His enemies from before Him, 32:22 and the land be subdued before the
LORD, and ye return afterward; then ye shall be clear before the
LORD, and before Israel, and this land shall be unto you for a
possession before the LORD. 32:23 But if ye will not do so, behold,
ye have sinned against the LORD; and know ye your sin which will find
you. 32:24 Build you cities for your little ones, and folds for your
sheep; and do that which hath proceeded out of your mouth.'
>
32:25 And the children of Gad and the children of Reuben spoke unto
Moses, saying: 'Thy servants will do as my lord commandeth. 32:26 Our
little ones, our wives, our flocks, and all our cattle, shall be
there in the cities of Gilead; 32:27 but thy servants will pass over,
every man that is armed for war, before the LORD to battle, as my
lord saith.'
> 32:28 So Moses gave charge concerning them to
Eleazar the priest, and to Joshua the son of Nun, and to the heads of
the fathers' houses of the tribes of the children of Israel. 32:29
And Moses said unto them: 'If the children of Gad and the children of
Reuben will pass with you over the Jordan, every man that is armed to
battle, before the LORD, and the land shall be subdued before you,
then ye shall give them the land of Gilead for a possession; 32:30
but if they will not pass over with you armed, they shall have
possessions among you in the land of Canaan.' 32:31 And the children
of Gad and the children of Reuben answered, saying: 'As the LORD hath
said unto thy servants, so will we do. 32:32 We will pass over armed
before the LORD into the land of Canaan, and the possession of our
inheritance shall remain with us beyond the Jordan.'
> 32:33
And Moses gave unto them, even to the children of Gad, and to the
children of Reuben, and unto the half-tribe of Manasseh the son of
Joseph, the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, and the kingdom of
Og king of Bashan, the land, according to the cities thereof with
their borders, even the cities of the land round about. 32:34 And the
children of Gad built Dibon, and Ataroth, and Aroer; 32:35 and
Atroth-shophan, and Jazer, and Jogbehah; 32:36 and Beth-nimrah, and
Beth-haran; fortified cities, and folds for sheep. 32:37 And the
children of Reuben built Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Kiriathaim; 32:38
and Nebo, and Baal-meon--their names being changed--and Sibmah; and
gave their names unto the cities which they builded. 32:39 And the
children of Machir the son of Manasseh went to Gilead, and took it,
and dispossessed the Amorites that were therein. 32:40 And Moses gave
Gilead unto Machir the son of Manasseh; and he dwelt therein. 32:41
And Jair the son of Manasseh went and took the villages thereof, and
called them (f8) Havvoth-jair. (Footnote 8: That is, The villages of
Jair) 32:42 And Nobah went and took Kenath, and the villages thereof,
and called it Nobah, after his own name.
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