if her husband altogether hold his peace at her from day to day; then he establisheth all her vows, or all
her bonds, which are upon her: he confirmeth them, because he held his peace at her in the day that
he heard them.
[15] But if he shall any ways make them void after that he hath heard them; then he shall
bear her iniquity.
[16] These are the statutes, which the LORD commanded Moses, between a man and
his wife, between the father and his daughter, being yet in her youth in her father's house.
Num.31
[1] And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
[2] Avenge the children of Israel of the Midianites: afterward
shalt thou be gathered unto thy people.
[3] And Moses spake unto the people, saying, Arm some of yourselves
unto the war, and let them go against the Midianites, and avenge the LORD of Midian.
[4] Of every tribe
a thousand, throughout all the tribes of Israel, shall ye send to the war.
[5] So there were delivered out
of the thousands of Israel, a thousand of every tribe, twelve thousand armed for war.
[6] And Moses
sent them to the war, a thousand of every tribe, them and Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, to
the war, with the holy instruments, and the trumpets to blow in his hand.
[7] And they warred against the
Midianites, as the LORD commanded Moses; and they slew all the males.
[8] And they slew the kings of
Midian, beside the rest of them that were slain; namely, Evi, and Rekem, and Zur, and Hur, and Reba,
five kings of Midian: Balaam also the son of Beor they slew with the sword.
[9] And the children of Israel
took all the women of Midian captives, and their little ones, and took the spoil of all their cattle, and all
their flocks, and all their goods.
[10] And they burnt all their cities wherein they dwelt, and all their goodly
castles, with fire.
[11] And they took all the spoil, and all the prey, both of men and of beasts.
[12] And
they brought the captives, and the prey, and the spoil, unto Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and unto the
congregation of the children of Israel, unto the camp at the plains of Moab, which are by Jordan near
Jericho.
[13] And Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and all the princes of the congregation, went forth to
meet them without the camp.
[14] And Moses was wroth with the officers of the host, with the captains
over thousands, and captains over hundreds, which came from the battle.
[15] And Moses said unto
them, Have ye saved all the women alive?
[16] Behold, these caused the children of Israel, through the
counsel of Balaam, to commit trespass against the LORD in the matter of Peor, and there was a plague
among the congregation of the LORD.
[17] Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill
every woman that hath known man by lying with him.
[18] But all the women children, that have not known
a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.
[19] And do ye abide without the camp seven days: whosoever
hath killed any person, and whosoever hath touched any slain, purify both yourselves and your captives
on the third day, and on the seventh day.
[20] And purify all your raiment, and all that is made of skins,
and all work of goats' hair, and all things made of wood.
[21] And Eleazar the priest said unto the men of
war which went to the battle, This is the ordinance of the law which the LORD commanded Moses;
[22]
Only the gold, and the silver, the brass, the iron, the tin, and the lead,
[23] Every thing that may abide
the fire, ye shall make it go through the fire, and it shall be clean: nevertheless it shall be purified with
the water of separation: and all that abideth not the fire ye shall make go through the water.
[24] And ye
shall wash your clothes on the seventh day, and ye shall be clean, and afterward ye shall come into
the camp.
[25] And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
[26] Take the sum of the prey that was taken,
both of man and of beast, thou, and Eleazar the priest, and the chief fathers of the congregation:
[27]
And divide the prey into two parts; between them that took the war upon them, who went out to battle,
and between all the congregation:
[28] And levy a tribute unto the LORD of the men of war which went
out to battle: one soul of five hundred, both of the persons, and of the beeves, and of the asses, and
of the sheep:
[29] Take it of their half, and give it unto Eleazar the priest, for an heave offering of the
LORD.
[30] And of the children of Israel's half, thou shalt take one portion of fifty, of the persons, of the
beeves, of the asses, and of the flocks, of all manner of beasts, and give them unto the Levites, which
keep the charge of the tabernacle of the LORD.
[31] And Moses and Eleazar the priest did as the LORD
commanded Moses.
[32] And the booty, being the rest of the prey which the men of war had caught, was
six hundred thousand and seventy thousand and five thousand sheep,
[33] And threescore and twelve
thousand beeves,
[34] And threescore and one thousand asses,
[35] And thirty and two thousand persons
in all, of woman that had not known man by lying with him.
[36] And the half, which was the portion of
them that went out to war, was in number three hundred thousand and seven and thirty thousand and
five hundred sheep:
[37] And the LORD's tribute of the sheep was six hundred and threescore and fifteen.
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