by Septuagint
[7] And they set themselves in array against Madian, as the Lord commanded Moses; and they slew every male. [8] And they slew the kings of Madian together with their slain subjects; even Evi and Rocon, and Sur, and Ur, and Roboc, five kings of Madian; and they slew with the sword Balaam the son of Beor with their other slain. [9] And they made a prey of the women of Madian, and their store, and their cattle, and all their possessions: and they spoiled their forces. [10] And they burnt with fire all their cities in the places of their habitation and they burnt their villages with fire. [11] And they took all their plunder, and all their spoils, both man and beast. [12] And they brought to Moses and to Eleazar the priest, and to all the children of Israel, the captives, and the spoils, and the plunder, to the camp to Araboth Moab, which is at Jordan by Jericho. [13] And Moses and Eleazar the priest and all the rulers of the synagogue went forth out of the camp to meet them. [14] And Moses was angry with the captains of the host, the heads of thousands and the heads of hundreds who came from the battle-array. [15] And Moses said to them, Why have ye saved every female alive? [16] For they were the occasion to the children of Israel by the word of Balaam of their revolting and despising the word of the Lord, because of Phogor; and there was a plague in the congregation of the Lord. [17] Now then slay every male in all the spoil, slay every woman, who has known the lying with man. [18] And as for all the captivity of women, who have not known the lying with man, save ye them alive. [19] And ye shall encamp outside the great camp seven days; every one who has slain and who touches a dead body, shall be purified on the third day, and ye and your captivity shall purify yourselves on the seventh day. [20] And ye shall purify every garment and every leathern utensil, and all furniture of goat skin, and every wooden vessel.
[21] And Eleazar the priest said to the men of the host that came from the battle-array, This is the ordinance of the law which the Lord has commanded Moses. [22] Beside the gold, and the silver, and the brass, and the iron, and lead, and tin, [23] every thing that shall pass through the fire shall so be clean, nevertheless it shall be purified with the water of sanctification; and whatsoever will not pass through the fire shall pass through water. [24] And on the seventh day ye shall wash your garments, and be clean; and afterwards ye shall come into the camp.
[25] And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, [26] Take the sum of the spoils of the captivity both of man and beast, thou and Eleazar the priest, and the heads of the families of the congregation. [27] And ye shall divide the spoils between the warriors that went out to battle, and the whole congregation. [28] And ye shall take a tribute for the Lord from the warriors that went out to battle; one soul out of five hundred, from the men, and from the cattle, even from the oxen, and from the sheep, and from the asses; and ye shall take from their half. [29] And thou shalt give them to Eleazar the priest as the first-fruits of the Lord. [30] And from the half belonging to the children of Israel thou shalt take one in fifty from the men, and from the oxen, and from the sheep, and from the asses, and from all the cattle; and thou shalt give them to the Levites that keep the charges in the tabernacle of the Lord.
[31] And Moses and Eleazar the priest did as the Lord commanded Moses. [32] And that which remained of the spoil which the warriors took, was — of the sheep, six hundred and seventy-five thousand: [33] and oxen, seventy-two thousand: [34] and asses, sixty-one thousand. [35] And persons of women who had not known lying with man, all the souls, thirty-two thousand. [36] And the half, even the portion of them that went out to war, from the number of the sheep, was three hundred and thirty-seven thousand and five hundred. [37] And the tribute to the Lord from the sheep was six hundred and seventy-five. [38] And the oxen, six and thirty thousand, and the tribute to the Lord seventy-two. [39] And asses, thirty thousand and five hundred, and the tribute to the Lord, sixty-one: [40] and the persons, sixteen thousand, and the tribute of them to the Lord, thirty-two souls.
[41] And Moses gave the tribute to the Lord, the heave-offering of God, to Eleazar the priest, as the Lord commanded Moses; [42] from the half belonging to the children of Israel, whom Moses separated from the men of war. [43] And the half taken from the sheep, belonging to the congregation, was three hundred and thirty-seven thousand and five hundred. [44] And the oxen, thirty-six thousand; [45] asses, thirty thousand and five hundred; [46] and persons, sixteen thousand. [47] And Moses took of the half belonging to the children of Israel the fiftieth part, of men and of cattle, and he gave them to the Levites who keep the charges of the tabernacle of the Lord, as the Lord commanded Moses.
[48] And all those who were appointed to be officers of thousands of the host, captains of thousands and captains of hundreds, approached Moses, and said to Moses, [49] Thy servants have taken the sum of the men of war with us, and not one is missing. [50] And we have brought our gift to the Lord, every man who has found an article of gold, whether an armlet, or a chain, or a ring, or a bracelet, or a clasp for hair, to make atonement for us before the Lord. [51] And Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold from them, even every wrought article. [52] And all the wrought gold, even the offering that they offered to the Lord, was sixteen thousand and seven hundred and fifty shekels from the captains of thousands and the captains of hundreds. [53] For the men of war took plunder every one for himself. [54] And Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold from the captains of thousands and captains of hundreds, and brought the vessels into the tabernacle of witness, a memorial of the children of Israel before the Lord.
Chapter 32
[1] And the children of Ruben and the children of Gad had a multitude of cattle, very great; and they saw the land of Jazer, and the land of Galaad; and the place was a place for cattle: [2] and the children of Ruben and the children of Gad came, and spoke to Moses, and to Eleazar the priest, and to the princes of the congregation, saying, [3] Ataroth, and Daebon, and Jazer, and Namra, and Esebon, and Eleale, and Sebama, and Nabau, and Baean, [4] the land which the Lord has delivered up before the children of Israel, is pasture land, and thy servants have cattle. [5] And they said, If we have found grace in thy sight, let this land be given to thy servants for a possession, and do not cause us to pass over Jordan.
[6] And Moses said to the sons of Gad and the sons of Ruben, Shall your brethren go to war, and shall ye sit here? [7] And why do ye pervert the minds of the children of Israel, that they should not cross over into the land, which the Lord gives them? [8] Did not your fathers thus, when I sent them from Cades Barne to spy out the land? [9] And they went up to the valley of the cluster, and spied the land, and turned aside the heart of the children of Israel, that they should not go into the land, which the Lord gave them. [10] And the Lord was very angry in that day, and sware, saying, [11] Surely these men who came up out of Egypt from twenty years old and upward, who know good and evil, shall not see the land which I sware to give to Abraam and Isaac and Jacob, for they have not closely followed after me: [12] save Caleb the son of Jephonne, who was set apart, and Joshua the son of Naue, for they closely followed after the Lord. [13] And the Lord was very angry with Israel; and for forty years he caused them to wander in the wilderness, until all the generation which did evil in the sight of the Lord was extinct. [14] Behold, ye are risen up in the room of your fathers, a combination of sinful men, to increase yet farther the fierce wrath of the Lord against Israel. [15] For ye will turn away from him to desert him yet once more in the wilderness, and ye will sin against this whole congregation.
[16] And they came to him, and said, We will build here folds for our cattle, and cities for our possessions; [17] and we will arm ourselves and go as an advanced guard before the children of Israel, until we shall have brought them into their place; and our possessions shall remain in walled cities because of the inhabitants of the land. [18] We will not return to our houses till the children of Israel shall have been distributed, each to his own inheritance. [19] And we will not any longer inherit with them from the other side of Jordan and onwards, because we have our full inheritance on the side beyond
Jordan eastward.
[20] And Moses said to them, If ye will do according to these words, if ye will arm yourselves before the Lord for battle, [21] and every one of you will pass over Jordan fully armed before the Lord, until his enemy be destroyed from before his face, [22] and the land shall be subdued before the Lord, then afterwards ye shall return, and be guiltless before the Lord, and as regards Israel; and this land shall be to you for a possession before the Lord. [23] But if ye will not do so, ye will sin against the Lord; and ye shall know your sin, when afflictions shall come upon you. [24] And ye shall build for yourselves cities for your store, and folds for your cattle; and ye shall do that which proceeds out of your mouth.
[25] And the sons of Ruben and the sons of Gad spoke to Moses, saying, Thy servants will do as our lord commands. [26] Our store, and our wives, and all our cattle shall be in the cities of Galaad. [27] But thy servants will go over all armed and set in order before the Lord to battle, as our lord says.
[28] And Moses appointed to them for judges Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Naue, and the chiefs of the families of the tribes of Israel. [29] And Moses said to them, If the sons of Ruben and the sons of Gad will pass over Jordan with you, every one armed for war before the Lord, and ye shall subdue the land before you, then ye shall give to them the land of Galaad for a possession. [30] But if they will not pass over armed with you to war before the Lord, then shall ye cause to pass over their possessions and their wives and their cattle before you into the land of Chanaan, and they shall inherit with you in the land of Chanaan. [31] And the sons of Ruben and the sons of Gad answered, saying, Whatsoever the Lord says to his servants, that will we do. [32] We will go over armed before the Lord into the land of Chanaan, and ye shall give us our inheritance beyond Jordan.
[33] And Moses gave to them, even to the sons of Gad and the sons of Ruben, and to the half tribe of Manasse of the sons of Joseph, the kingdom of Seon king of the Amorites, and the kingdom of Og king of Basan, the land and its cities with its coasts, the cities of the land round about. [34] And the sons of Gad built Daebon, and Ataroth, and Aroer, [35] and Sophar, and Jazer, and they set them up, [36] and Namram, and Baetharan, strong cities, and folds for sheep. [37] And the sons of Ruben built Esebon, and Eleale, and Kariatham, [38] and Beelmeon, surrounded with walls, and Sebama; and they called the names of the cities which they built, after their own names. [39] And a son of Machir the son of Manasse went to Galaad, and took it, and destroyed the Amorite who dwelt in it. [40] And Moses gave Galaad to Machir the son of Manasse, and he dwelt there. [41] And Jair the son of Manasse went and took their villages, and called them the villages of Jair. [42] And Nabau went and took Caath and her villages, and called them Naboth after his name.
Chapter 33
[1] And these are the stages of the children of Israel, as they went out from the land of Egypt with their host by the hand of Moses and Aaron. [2] And Moses wrote their removals and their stages, by the word of the Lord: and these are the stages of their journeying. [3] They departed from Ramesses in the first month, on the fifteenth day of the first month; on the day after the passover the children of Israel went forth with a high hand before all the Egyptians. [4] And the Egyptians buried those that died of them, even all that the Lord smote, every first-born in the land of Egypt; also the Lord executed vengeance on their gods. [5] And the children of Israel departed from Ramesses, and encamped in Socchoth: [6] and they departed from Socchoth and encamped in Buthan, which is a part of the wilderness. [7] And they departed from Buthan and encamped at the mouth of Iroth, which is opposite Beel-sepphon, and encamped opposite Magdol. [8] And they departed from before Iroth, and crossed the middle of the sea into the wilderness; and they went a journey of three days through the wilderness, and encamped in Picriae. [9] And they departed from Picriae, and came to Ælim; and in Ælim were twelve fountains of water, and seventy palm-trees, and they encamped there by the water. [10] And they departed from Ælim, and encamped by the Red Sea. [11] And they departed from the Red Sea, and encamped in the wilderness of Sin.
[12] And they departed from the wilderness of Sin, and encamped in Raphaca. [13] And they departed from Raphaca, and encamped in Ælus. [14] And they departed from Ælus, and encamped in Raphidin; and there was no water there for the people to drink. [15] And they departed from Raphidin, and encamped in the wilderness of Sina. [16] And they departed from the wilderness of Sina, and encamped at the Graves of Lust. [17] And they departed from the Graves of Lust, and encamped in Aseroth. [18] And they departed from Aseroth, and encamped in Rathama.
[19] And they departed from Rathama, and encamped in Remmon Phares. [20] And they departed from Remmon Phares, and encamped in Lebona. [21] And they departed from Lebona, and encamped in Ressan. [22] And they departed from Ressan, and encamped in Makellath. [23] And they departed from Makellath, and encamped in Saphar. [24] And they departed from Saphar, and encamped in Charadath. [25] And they departed from Charadath, and encamped in Makeloth. [26] And they departed from Makeloth, and encamped in Kataath. [27] And they departed from Kataath, and encamped in Tarath. [28] And they departed from Tarath, and encamped in Mathecca. [29] And they departed from Mathecca, and encamped in Selmona. [30] And they departed from Selmona, and encamped in Masuruth. [31] And they departed from Masuruth, and encamped in Banaea. [32] And they departed from Banaea, and encamped in the mountain Gadgad.
[33] And they departed from the mountain Gadgad, and encamped in Etebatha. [34] And they departed from Etebatha, and encamped in Ebrona. [35] And they departed from Ebrona, and encamped in Gesion Gaber. [36] And they departed from Gesion Gaber, and encamped in the wilderness of Sin; and they departed from the wilderness of Sin, and encamped in the wilderness of Pharan; this is Cades. [37] And they departed from Cades, and encamped in mount Or near the land of Edom.
[38] And Aaron the priest went up by the command of the Lord, and died there in the fortieth year of the departure of the children of Israel from the land of Egypt, in the fifth month, on the first day of the month. [39] And Aaron was a hundred and twenty-three years old, when he died in mount Or. [40] And Arad the Chananitish king (he too dwelt in the land of Chanaan) having heard when the children of Israel were entering the land — [41] then they departed from mount Or, and encamped in Selmona. [42] And they departed from Selmona, and encamped in Phino. [43] And they departed from Phino, and encamped in Oboth.
[44] And they departed from Oboth, and encamped in Gai, on the other side Jordan on the borders of Moab. [45] And they departed from Gai, and encamped in Daebon Gad. [46] And they departed from Daebon Gad, and encamped in Gelmon Deblathaim. [47] And they departed from Gelmon Deblathaim, and encamped on the mountains of Abarim, over against Nabau. [48] And they departed from the mountains of Abarim, and encamped on the west of Moab, at Jordan by Jericho. [49] And they encamped by Jordan between Æsimoth, as far as Belsa to the west of Moab.
[50] And the Lord spoke to Moses at the west of Moab by Jordan at Jericho, saying, [51] Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them, Ye are to pass over Jordan into the land of Chanaan. [52] And ye shall destroy all that dwell in the land before your face, and ye shall abolish their high places, and all their molten images ye shall destroy, and ye shall demolish all their pillars. [53] And ye shall destroy all the inhabitants of the land, and ye shall dwell in it, for I have given their land to you for an inheritance. [54] And ye shall inherit their land according to your tribes; to the greater number ye shall give the larger possession, and to the smaller ye shall give the less possession; to whatsoever part a man’s name shall go forth by lot, there shall be his property: ye shall inherit according to the tribes of your families. [55] But if ye will not destroy the dwellers in the land from before you, then it shall come to pass that whomsoever of them ye shall leave shall be thorns in your eyes, and darts in your sides, and they shall be enemies to you on the land on which ye shall dwell; [56] and it shall come to pass that as I had determined to do to them, so I will do to you.
Chapter 34
[1] And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, [2] Charge the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them, Ye are entering into the land of Chanaan: it shall be to you for an inheritance, the land of Chanaan with its boundaries. [3] And your southern side shall be from the wilderness of Sin to the border of Edom, and your border southward shall extend on the side of the salt sea eastward. [4] And your border shall go round you from the south to the ascent of Acrabin, and shall proceed by Ennac, and the going forth of it shall be southward to Cades Barne, and it shall go forth to the village of Arad, and shall proceed by Asemona. [5] And the border shall compass from Asemona to the river of Egypt, and the sea shall be the termination. [6] And ye shall have your border on the west, the great sea shall be the boundary: this shall be to you the border on the west.
[7] And this shall be your northern border; from the great sea ye shall measure to yourselves, by the side of the mountain. [8] And ye shall measure to yourselves the mountain from mount Hor at the entering in to Emath, and the termination of it shall be the coasts of Saradac. [9] And the border shall go out to Dephrona, and its termination shall be at Arsenain; this shall be your border from the north. [10] And ye shall measure to yourselves the eastern border from Arsenain to Sepphamar. [11] And the border shall go down from Sepphamar to Bela eastward to the fountains, and the border shall go down from Bela behind the sea Chenereth eastward. [12] And the border shall go down to Jordan, and the termination shall be the salt sea; this shall be your land and its borders round about.
[13] And Moses charged the children of Israel, saying, This is the land which ye shall inherit by lot, even as the Lord commanded us to give it to the nine tribes and the half-tribe of Manasse. [14] For the tribe of the children of Ruben, and the tribe of the children of Gad have received their inheritance according to their families; and the half-tribe of Manasse have received their inheritances. [15] Two tribes and half a tribe have received their inheritance beyond Jordan by Jericho from the south eastwards.
