the seventh day: seven bulls, two rams, and fourteen male lambs one year old, all flawless. 33The grain offering and their drink offering for the bulls, rams, and lambs will be as prescribed for their number. 34There will be one male goat for a purification offering in addition to the regular entirely burned offering with its grain offering and its drink offering.
35On the eighth day you will have a holiday. You will not do any job-related work. 36You will present an entirely burned offering, a food gift as a soothing smell to the LORD: one bull, one ram, and seven male lambs one year old, all without blemish. 37The grain offering and their drink offerings for the bull, ram, and lambs will be as prescribed for their number. 38There will be one male goat for a purification offering in addition to the regular entirely burned offering with its grain offering and its drink offering.
39These you will offer to the LORD at your appointed times in addition to your payments for solemn promises, your spontaneous gifts, your entirely burned offerings, your grain offerings, your drink offerings, and your well-being sacrifices.
40x Moses told the Israelites everything that the LORD commanded Moses.
Solemn promises by men
Numbers 30Moses spoke to the leaders of the tribes of the Israelites: This is what the LORD has commanded: 2When a man makes a solemn promise to the LORD or swears a solemn pledge of binding obligation for himself, he cannot break his word. He must do everything he said.
Solemn promises by women
3When a woman makes a solemn promise to the LORD or a binding obligation while she is young and in her father's household, 4and her father hears her solemn promise or her binding obligation for herself and keeps silenty --then all her solemn promises and any of her binding obligations for herself will stand. 5But if her father expresses disapproval to her on the day that he hears her, none of her solemn promises nor any of her binding obligations for herself will stand. The LORD will forgive her, because her father expressed disapproval to her.
6If she marries while her solemn promise is in effect or makes a statement by which she binds herself, 7and her husband hears it and on the day he hears it keeps silent--her solemn promises will stand as well as her binding obligations for herself. 8But if on the day that her husband hears it he expresses disapproval to her, he can break her solemn promise and the statement by which she bound herself. Then the LORD will forgive her.
9Every solemn promise of a widow or a divorced woman who makes a binding obligation for herself will stand.
10If a woman makes a solemn promise in her husband's household or makes a binding obligation for herself with a solemn pledge, 11and her husband hears, keeps silent, and doesn't express disapproval to her--then all her solemn promises will stand and all her binding obligations for herself will stand. 12If her husband breaks them on the day he hears them, then whatever she said with regard to her solemn promises or the binding obligations for herself will not stand. Her husband has broken them. The LORD will forgive her.
13Her husband may allow any solemn promise or any binding pledge of self-denial to stand or be broken. 14But if her husband keeps silent from one day to the next, he has upheld all her solemn promises, or all her binding obligations. He has upheld them because he remained silent on the day he heard them. 15If he breaks them after he has heard them, he will assume her guilt.
16These are the regulations that the LORD commanded Moses concerning a husband and his wife and between a father and his daughter while she is young and in her father's household.
War against the Midianites
Numbers 31The LORD spoke to Moses: 2Take just reparations for the Israelites from the Midianites. Afterward you will join your ancestors.
3Moses spoke to the people: "Equip some of your men for battle so that they may go against Midian and execute the LORD's just punishment against Midian. 4You will send out for battle one thousand from each of the tribes of Israel."
5From the thousands of Israel, one thousand from each tribe were selected. Twelve thousand were equipped for battle. 6Moses sent them to battle, one thousand from each tribe, along with Phinehas, Eleazar the priest's son, who carried the sanctuary equipment and the trumpets for sounding the alarm in his hand. 7They battled against Midian as the LORD had commanded Moses, and they killed every male. 8They killed the kings of Midian: Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba, the five kings of Midian, along with others slain. They also killed Balaam, Beor's son, with the sword. 9The Israelites took captive the Midianite women, their little ones, all their cattle, their herds, and their possessions. 10They burned all the cities where they lived and their encampments. 11They took all the spoils of war and the valuable property, both human and animal, 12and they brought the captives, the valuable property, and the spoils of war to Moses, Eleazar the priest, and the Israelite community, at the camp on the plains of Moab by the Jordan across from Jericho.
Purification from war
13Moses, Eleazar the priest, and the chiefs of the community went to meet them outside the camp. 14Moses became angry with the commanders of the army, the officers of thousands and the officers of hundreds, who came back from the battle. 15Moses said to them, "Have you let all the women live?16These very women, on Balaam's advice, made the Israelites break faith with the LORD in the affair at Peor, so there was a plague among the LORD's community. 17Now kill every male child and every female who has known a man intimately by sleeping with him. 18But all the young girls who have not known a man intimately by sleeping with him, spare for yourselves. 19You will remain outside the camp for seven days. Everyone among you or your captives who has killed a person or touched a corpse must purify themselves on the third and seventh days. 20You must also purify every garment, and everything made of leather, goats' hair, or wood."
Instructions about the spoils of war
21Eleazar the priest said to the men of battle who had gone out to war, "This is the regulation in the Instruction that the LORD commanded Moses:22Gold, silver, copper, iron, tin, and lead--23anything that can withstand fire--you will put through the fire and it will be clean. It will also be purified with the water of purification. Anything that isn't able to withstand fire, you will immerse in water. 24You must wash your clothes on the seventh day and you will be clean. Afterward you may enter the camp."
25The LORD said to Moses: 26You, Eleazar the priest, and the leaders of the community's households must take an inventory of the valuable property and the captives, both human and animals, 27and divide the valuable property between the warriors who went into battle and the entire community. 28You will offer as tribute to the LORD from each warrior who went into battle one living being in five hundred, whether human, oxen, donkeys, or flocks. 29Take it from the warriors' half and give it to Eleazar the priest as a gift offering to the LORD. 30But from the Israelites' half you will take one out of every fifty, whether from human, oxen, donkeys, or flock--all the animals. You will give them to the Levites who carry out the duties of the LORD's dwelling.
31Moses and Eleazar the priest did as the LORD commanded Moses. 32The valuable property remaining from the spoils of war that the people of the army had taken was 675,000 sheep, 3372,000 oxen, 3461,000 donkeys, 35and 32,000 women who hadn't known a man intimately by sleeping with him. 36The half-share of those who had gone out to battle numbered 337,500 sheep, 37of which the LORD's tribute was 675. 38The oxen were 36,000, of which the LORD's tribute was 72. 39The donkeys were 30,500, of which the LORD's tribute was 61. 40Humans were 16,000, of which the LORD's tribute was 32 persons. 41Moses