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Hello, this is Father Paul and I'm glad we're taking this journey together to read the Bible

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in a year.

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Today's reading is from Numbers chapters 29 to 31.

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Chapter 29

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And in the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you shall have a holy convocation.

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You shall do no customary work.

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For you it is a day of blowing the trumpets.

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You shall offer a burnt offering as a sweet aroma to the Lord.

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One young bull, one ram, and seven lambs in their first year without blemish.

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Their grain offering shall be fine flour mixed with oil, three-tenths of an effa for the bull,

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two-tenths for the ram, and one-tenth for each of the seven lambs.

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Also one kid of the goats as a sin offering to make atonement for you.

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Besides the burnt offering, with its grain offering for the new moon, the regular burnt

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offering, with its grain offering and their drink offerings according to their ordinance,

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as a sweet aroma, an offering made by fire to the Lord.

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On the tenth day of this seventh month, you shall have a holy convocation.

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You shall afflict your souls.

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You shall not do any work.

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You shall present a burnt offering to the Lord as a sweet aroma.

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One young bull, one ram, and seven lambs in their first year.

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Be sure they are without blemish.

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Their grain offering shall be fine flour mixed with oil, three-tenths of an effa for the

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bull, two-tenths for the one ram, and one-tenth for each of the seven lambs.

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Also one kid of the goats as a sin offering.

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Besides the sin offering for atonement, the regular burnt offering with its grain offering

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and their drink offerings.

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On the fifteenth day of the seventh month, you shall have a holy convocation.

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You shall do no customary work, and you shall keep a feast to the Lord seven days.

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You shall present a burnt offering, an offering made by fire as a sweet aroma to the Lord.

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Thirteen young bulls, two rams, and fourteen lambs in their first year.

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They shall be without blemish.

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Their grain offering shall be of fine flour mixed with oil, three-tenths of an effa for

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each of the thirteen bulls, two-tenths for each of the two rams, and one-tenth for each

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of the fourteen lambs.

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Also one kid of the goats as a sin offering.

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Besides the regular burnt offering, its grain offering and its drink offering.

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On the second day, present twelve young bulls, two rams, fourteen lambs in their first year

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without blemish, and their grain offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for

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the rams, and for the lambs, by their number according to the ordinance.

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Also one kid of the goats as a sin offering.

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Besides the regular burnt offering with its grain offering and their drink offerings.

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On the third day, present eleven bulls, two rams, fourteen lambs in their first year without

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blemish, and their grain offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams,

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and for the lambs, by their number according to the ordinance.

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Also one goat as a sin offering, besides the regular burnt offering, its grain offering,

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and its drink offering.

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On the fourth day, present ten bulls, two rams, and fourteen lambs in their first year

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without blemish, and their grain offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for

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the rams, and for the lambs, by their number according to the ordinance.

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Also one kid of the goats as a sin offering, besides the regular burnt offering, its grain

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offering, and its drink offering.

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On the fifth day, present nine bulls, two rams, and fourteen lambs in their first year without

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blemish, and their grain offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams,

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and for the lambs, by their number according to the ordinance.

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Also one goat as a sin offering, besides the regular burnt offering, its grain offering,

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and its drink offering.

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On the sixth day, present eight bulls, two rams, and fourteen lambs in their first year

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without blemish, and their grain offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for

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the rams, and for the lambs, by their number according to the ordinance.

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Also one goat as a sin offering, besides the regular burnt offering, its grain offering,

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and its drink offering.

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On the seventh day, present seven bulls, two rams, and fourteen lambs in their first year

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without blemish, and their grain offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for

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the rams, and for the lambs, by their number according to the ordinance.

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Also one goat as a sin offering, besides the regular burnt offering, its grain offering,

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and its drink offering.

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On the eighth day, you shall have a sacred assembly, you shall do no customary work,

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you shall present a burnt offering, an offering made by fire as a sweet aroma to the Lord,

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one bull, one ram, seven lambs in their first year without blemish, and their grain offering

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and their drink offerings for the bull, for the ram, and for the lambs, by their number

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according to the ordinance.

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Also one goat as a sin offering, besides the regular burnt offering, its grain offering,

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and its drink offering.

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These you shall present to the Lord at your appointed feasts, besides your vowed offerings

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and your free will offerings, as your burnt offerings and your grain offerings, as your

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drink offerings and your peace offerings.

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So Moses told the children of Israel everything just as the Lord commanded Moses.

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Chapter 30 Then Moses spoke to the heads of the tribes

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concerning the children of Israel, saying, This is the thing which the Lord has commanded.

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If a man makes a vow to the Lord, or swears an oath to bind himself by some agreement,

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he shall not break his word, he shall do according to all that proceeds out of his mouth.

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Or if a woman makes a vow to the Lord and binds herself by some agreement while in her

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father's house in her youth, and her father hears her vow, an agreement by which she has

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bound herself, and her father holds his peace, then all her vows shall stand, and every agreement

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with which she has bound herself shall stand.

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But if her father overrules her on the day that he hears, then none of her vows nor her

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agreements by which she has bound herself shall stand, and the Lord will release her,

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because her father overruled her.

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If indeed she takes a husband while bound by her vows or by a rash utterance from her

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lips by which she bound herself, and her husband hears it and makes no response to her on the

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day that he hears, then her vows shall stand, and her agreements by which she bound herself

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shall stand.

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But if her husband overrules her on the day that he hears it, he shall make void her vow

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which she took and what she uttered with her lips by which she bound herself, and the Lord

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will release her.

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Also any vow of a widow or a divorced woman by which she has bound herself shall stand

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against her.

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If she vowed in her husband's house or bound herself by an agreement with an oath, and

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her husband hears it and made no response to her and did not overrule her, then all

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her vows shall stand, and every agreement by which she bound herself shall stand.

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But if her husband truly made them void on the day he heard them, then whatever proceeded

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from her lips concerning her vows or concerning the agreement binding her, it shall not stand.

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Her husband has made them void and the Lord will release her.

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Every vow and every binding oath to afflict her soul, her husband may confirm it, or her

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husband may make it void.

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Now if her husband makes no response whatever to her from day to day, then he confirms all

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her vows or all the agreements that bind her.

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He confirms them because he made no response to her on the day that he heard them.

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But if he does make them void after he has heard them, then he shall bear her guilt.

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These are the statutes which the Lord commanded Moses between a man and his wife, and between

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a father and his daughter in her youth in her father's house.

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Chapter 31

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And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, Take vengeance on the Midianites for the children

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of Israel.

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Afterward you shall be gathered to your people.

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So Moses spoke to the people saying, Arm some of yourselves for war, and let them go against

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the Midianites to take vengeance for the Lord on Midian.

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A thousand from each tribe, of all the tribes of Israel, you shall send to the war.

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So there were recruited from the divisions of Israel, one thousand from each tribe, twelve

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thousand armed for war.

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Then Moses sent them to the war, one thousand from each tribe.

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He sent them to the war with Phineas the son of Eleazar the priest, with the holy articles

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and the signal trumpets in his hand.

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And they warred against the Midianites just as the Lord commanded Moses, and they killed

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all the males.

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They killed the kings of Midian with the rest of those who were killed.

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Evie, Rekem, Zor, Hur, and Reba, the five kings of Midian.

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Balaam the son of Beor they also killed with the sword.

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And the children of Israel took the women of Midian captive, with their little ones,

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and took as spoil all their cattle, all their flocks, and all their goods.

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They also burned with fire all the cities where they dwelt, and all their forts.

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And they took all the spoil, and all the booty, of man and beast.

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Then they brought the captives, the booty and the spoil to Moses, to Eleazar the priest,

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and to the congregation of the children of Israel, to the camp in the plains of Moab

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by the Jordan across from Jericho.

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And Moses and Eleazar the priest, and all the leaders of the congregation, went to meet

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them outside the camp.

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But Moses was angry with the officers of the army, with the captains over thousands, and

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captains over hundreds, who had come from the battle.

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And Moses said to them, Have you kept all the women alive?

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Look, these women caused the children of Israel, through the council of Balaam, to trespass

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against the Lord in incidents of Peor.

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And there was a plague among the congregation of the Lord.

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

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man intimately.

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But keep alive for yourselves all the young girls who have not known a man intimately.

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And as for you, remain outside the camp seven days.

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Whoever has killed any person, and whoever has touched any slain, purify yourselves and

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your captives on the third day and on the seventh day.

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Purify every garment, everything made of leather, everything woven of goats hair, and everything

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made of wood.

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Then Eleazar the priest said to the men of war who had gone to the battle, This is the

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ordinance of the law which the Lord commanded Moses.

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Only the gold, the silver, the bronze, the iron, the tin, and the lead.

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Everything that can endure fire, you shall put through the fire, and it shall be clean,

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and it shall be purified with the water of purification.

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But all that cannot endure fire, you shall put through water, and you shall wash your

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clothes on the seventh day and be clean.

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And afterward you may come into the camp.

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Now the Lord spoke to Moses saying, Count up the plunder that was taken of man and beast,

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you and Eleazar the priest, and the chief fathers of the congregation.

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And divide the plunder into two parts, between those who took part in the war, who went out

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to battle, and all the congregation.

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And levy a tribute for the Lord on the men of war who went out to battle, one of every

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five hundred of the persons, the cattle, the donkeys, and the sheep.

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Take it from their half, and give it to Eleazar the priest as a heave offering to the Lord.

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And from the children of Israel's half, you shall take one of every fifty, drawn from

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the persons, the cattle, the donkeys, and the sheep, from all the livestock, and give

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them to the Levites, who keep charge of the tabernacle of the Lord.

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So Moses and Eleazar the priest did as the Lord commanded Moses.

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The booty remaining from the plunder, which the men of war had taken, was six hundred

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and seventy-five thousand sheep, seventy-two thousand cattle, sixty-one thousand donkeys,

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and thirty-two thousand persons in all, of women who had not known a man intimately.

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And the half, the portion of those who had gone out to war, was in number three hundred

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and thirty-seven thousand five hundred sheep, and the Lord's tribute of the sheep was six

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hundred and seventy-five.

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The cattle were thirty-six thousand, of which the Lord's tribute was seventy-two.

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The donkeys were thirty thousand five hundred, of which the Lord's tribute was sixty-one.

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The persons who were sixteen thousand, of which the Lord's tribute was thirty-two persons.

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So Moses gave the tribute, which was the Lord's heave offering to Eleazar the priest, as the

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Lord commanded Moses.

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And from the children of Israel's half, which Moses separated from the men who fought, now

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the half belonging to the congregation, was three hundred and thirty-seven thousand five

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hundred sheep, thirty-six thousand cattle, thirty thousand five hundred donkeys, and

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sixteen thousand persons.

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And from the children of Israel's half, Moses took one of every fifty drawn from man and

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beast, and gave them to the Levites, who kept charge of the tabernacle of the Lord, as the

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Lord commanded Moses.

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Then the officers, who were over thousands of the army, the captains of thousands, the

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captains of hundreds, came near to Moses.

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And they said to Moses, Your servants have taken account of the men of war, who are under

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our command, and not a man of us is missing.

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Therefore we have brought an offering for the Lord, what every man found of ornaments

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of gold, armlets and bracelets, and signet rings and earrings and necklaces, to make

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atonement for ourselves before the Lord.

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So Moses and Eleazar the priest received the gold from them, all the fashion ornaments,

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and all the gold of the offering that they offered to the Lord.

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From the captains of thousands and captains of hundreds was sixteen thousand seven hundred

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and fifty shekels.

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

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And Moses and Eleazar the priest received the gold from the captains of thousands and

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of hundreds, and brought it into the tabernacle of meeting, as a memorial for the children

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of Israel before the Lord.

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I hope you enjoyed today's reading as much as I did, and I look forward to seeing you

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again tomorrow to continue on our journey.

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God bless you and have a great day.