²‘When a man voweth a vow to Jehovah, or hath sworn an oath to bind a bond on his soul, he doth not pollute his word; according to all that is going out from his mouth he doth.

³‘And when a woman voweth a vow to Jehovah, and hath bound a bond in the house of her father in her youth, ⁴and her father hath heard her vow, and her bond which she hath bound on her soul, and her father hath kept silent at her, then have all her vows been established, and every bond which she hath bound on her soul is established.

⁵‘And if her father hath disallowed her in the day of his hearing, none of her vows and her bonds which she hath bound on her soul is established, and Jehovah is propitious to her, for her father hath disallowed her.

⁶‘And if she be at all to a husband, and her vows are on her, or a wrongful utterance on her lips, which she hath bound on her soul, ⁷and her husband hath heard, and in the day of his hearing, he hath kept silent at her, then have her vows been established, and her bonds which she hath bound on her soul are established.

⁸‘And if in the day of her husband’s hearing he disalloweth her, then he hath broken her vow which is on her, and the wrongful utterance of her lips which she hath bound on her soul, and Jehovah is propitious to her.

⁹‘As to the vow of a widow or cast-out woman, all that she hath bound on her soul is established on her.

¹⁰‘And if in the house of her husband she hath vowed, or hath bound a bond on her soul with an oath, ¹¹and her husband hath heard, and hath kept silent at her—he hath not disallowed her—then have all her vows been established, and every bond which she hath bound on her soul is established.

¹²‘And if her husband doth certainly break them in the day of his hearing, none of the outgoing of her lips concerning her vows, or concerning the bond of her soul, is established—her husband hath broken them—and Jehovah is propitious to her.

¹³‘Every vow and every oath—a bond to humble a soul—her husband doth establish it, or her husband doth break it; ¹⁴and if her husband certainly keep silent at her, from day unto day, then he hath established all her vows, or all her bonds which are upon her; he hath established them, for he hath kept silent at her in the day of his hearing; ¹⁵and if he doth at all break them after his hearing, then he hath borne her iniquity.’ ¹⁶These are the statutes which Jehovah hath commanded Moses between a man and his wife, between a father and his daughter, in her youth, in the house of her father.

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¹And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying, ²‘Execute the vengeance of the sons of Israel against the Midianites—afterwards thou art gathered unto thy people.’ ³And Moses speaketh unto the people, saying, ‘Be ye armed some of you for the host, and they are against Midian, to put the vengeance of Jehovah on Midian; ⁴a thousand for a tribe—a thousand for a tribe, to all the tribes of Israel—ye do send to the host.’ ⁵And there are given out of the thousands of Israel a thousand for a tribe, twelve thousand armed ones of the host; ⁶and Moses sendeth them, a thousand for a tribe, to the host, them and Phinehas son of Eleazar the priest, to the host; and the holy vessels, and the trumpets of the shouting, in his hand.

⁷And they war against Midian, as Jehovah hath commanded Moses, and slay every male; ⁸and the kings of Midian they have slain, besides their pierced ones, Evi, and Rekem, and Zur, and Hur, and Reba, five kings of Midian; and Balaam son of Beor, they have slain with the sword. ⁹And the sons of Israel take captive the women of Midian, and their infants; and all their cattle, and all their substance, and all their wealth they have plundered; ¹⁰and all their cities, with their habitations, and all their towers, they have burnt with fire. ¹¹And they take all the spoil, and all the prey, among man and among beast; ¹²and they bring in, unto Moses, and unto Eleazar the priest, and unto the company of the sons of Israel, the captives, and the prey, and the spoil, unto the camp, unto the plains of Moab, which are by Jordan, near Jericho.

¹³And Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and all the princes of the company, go out to meet them, unto the outside of the camp, ¹⁴and Moses is wroth against the inspectors of the force, chiefs of the thousands, and chiefs of the hundreds, who are coming in from the host of the battle. ¹⁵And Moses saith unto them, ‘Have ye kept alive every female? ¹⁶lo, they—they have been to the sons of Israel, through the word of Balaam, to cause a trespass against Jehovah in the matter of Peor, and the plague is in the company of Jehovah.

¹⁷‘And now, slay ye every male among the infants, yea, every woman known of man by the lying of a male ye have slain; ¹⁸and all the infants among the women, who have not known the lying of a male, ye have kept alive for yourselves.

¹⁹‘And ye, encamp ye at the outside of the camp seven days—any who hath slain a person, and any who hath come against a pierced one, ye cleanse yourselves on the third day, and on the seventh day—ye and your captives; ²⁰and every garment, and every skin vessel, and every work of goats’ hair, and every wooden vessel, ye yourselves cleanse.’ ²¹And Eleazar the priest saith unto the men of the host who go in to battle, ‘This is the statute of the law which Jehovah hath commanded Moses: ²²only, the gold, and the silver, the brass, the iron, the tin, and the lead, ²³every thing which may go into fire, ye cause to pass over through fire, and it hath been clean; only, with the water of separation it is cleansed, and all that may not go into fire, ye cause to pass over through water; ²⁴and ye have washed your garments on the seventh day, and have been clean, and afterwards ye come in unto the camp.’

²⁵And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying, ²⁶‘Take up the sum of the prey of the captives, among man and among beast, thou, and Eleazar the priest, and the heads of the fathers of the company; ²⁷and thou hast halved the prey between those handling the battle who go out to the host and all the company; ²⁸and thou hast raised a tribute to Jehovah from the men of war, who go out to the host, one body out of five hundred, of man, and of the herd, and of the asses, and of the flock; ²⁹from their half ye do take, and thou hast given to Eleazar the priest—the heave-offering of Jehovah.

³⁰‘And from the sons of Israel’s half thou dost take one possession out of fifty, of man, of the herd, of the asses, and of the flock, of all the cattle, and thou hast given them to the Levites keeping the charge of the tabernacle of Jehovah.’ ³¹And Moses doth—Eleazar the priest also—as Jehovah hath commanded Moses. ³²And the prey, the residue of the spoil which the people of the host have spoiled, is of the flock six hundred thousand, and seventy thousand, and five thousand; ³³and of the herd two and seventy thousand; ³⁴and of asses one and sixty thousand; ³⁵and of human beings—of the women who have not known the lying of a male—all the persons are two and thirty thousand. ³⁶And the half—the portion of those who go out into the host—the number of the flock is three hundred thousand, and thirty thousand, and seven thousand and five hundred. ³⁷And the tribute to Jehovah of the sheep is six hundred five and seventy; ³⁸and the herd is six and thirty thousand, and their tribute to Jehovah is two and seventy; ³⁹and the asses are thirty thousand and five hundred, and their tribute to Jehovah is one and sixty; ⁴⁰and the human beings are sixteen thousand, and their tribute to Jehovah is two and thirty persons. ⁴¹And Moses giveth the tribute—Jehovah’s heave-offering—to Eleazar the priest, as Jehovah hath commanded Moses. ⁴²And of the sons of Israel’s half, which Moses halved from the men who war— ⁴³and the company’s half is, of the flock three hundred thousand, and thirty thousand, seven thousand and five hundred; ⁴⁴and of the herd six and thirty thousand; ⁴⁵and of asses thirty thousand and five hundred; ⁴⁶and of human beings sixteen thousand— ⁴⁷Moses taketh from the sons of Israel’s half the one possession from the fifty, of man and of beast, and giveth them to the Levites keeping the charge of the tabernacle of Jehovah, as Jehovah hath commanded Moses.

⁴⁸And the inspectors whom the thousands of the host hath, (heads of the thousands and heads of the hundreds), draw near unto Moses, ⁴⁹and they say unto Moses, ‘Thy servants have taken up the sum of the men of war who are with us, and not a man of us hath been missed; ⁵⁰and we bring near Jehovah’s offering, each that which he hath found, vessels of gold—chain, and bracelet, seal-ring, ear -ring, and bead—to make atonement for ourselves before Jehovah.’ ⁵¹And Moses receiveth—Eleazar the priest also—the gold from them, every made vessel, ⁵²and all the gold of the heave-offering which they have lifted up to Jehovah is sixteen thousand seven hundred and fifty shekels, from heads of the thousands, and from heads of the hundreds; ⁵³(the men of the host have spoiled each for himself); ⁵⁴and Moses taketh—Eleazar the priest also—the gold from the heads of the thousands and of the hundreds, and they bring it in unto the tent of meeting—a memorial for the sons of Israel before Jehovah.

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