1TUHAN berbicara kepada Musa,2“Kamu harus membalas orang Midian karena mereka menjerumuskan bangsa Israel ke dalam perzinaan. Sesudah itu, kamu akan mati dan mendapat tempat bersama nenek moyangmu yang sudah meninggal.”3Lalu Musa berkata kepada orang Israel, “Mari kita bersiap-siap untuk perang! Pilihlah orang yang akan masuk dalam pasukan kita. Kita akan menyerang Midian untuk melaksanakan pembalasan bagi TUHAN karena mereka menjerumuskan bangsa kita ke dalam perzinaan.4Setiap suku Israel akan mempersiapkan 1.000 orang untuk maju berperang.”5Maka setiap suku mempersiapkan 1.000 orang, sehingga ada 12.000 orang bersenjata yang siap berperang.6Musa memerintahkan mereka pergi berperang di bawah pimpinan Pinehas, anak Imam Eleazar. Pinehas membawa beberapa benda suci dari kemah TUHAN dan terompet-terompet untuk memberi aba-aba perang.7Kemudian mereka menyerang Midian, seperti yang TUHAN perintahkan kepada Musa, dan membunuh semua laki-laki Midian,8termasuk kelima raja Midian, yaitu Ewi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, dan Reba. Mereka juga membunuh Bileam anak Beor.9Kemudian pasukan Israel menawan perempuan-perempuan dan anak-anak orang Midian, serta merampas semua ternak dan seluruh kekayaan Midian.10Semua kota-kota dan perkemahan orang Midian dibakar.11Sesudah pasukan Israel mengumpulkan semua rampasan, ternak, dan tawanan perang,12mereka membawa semuanya itu kepada Eleazar, Musa, dan seluruh umat Israel di perkemahan mereka di dataran Moab, di tepi sungai Yordan, berseberangan dengan kota Yeriko.13Maka Musa, Eleazar, dan semua pemimpin umat Israel menyambut kedatangan mereka.14Tetapi Musa marah kepada para perwira dan komandan pasukan Israel.15Dia berkata kepada mereka, “Kenapa kalian membiarkan semua perempuan itu hidup?16Perempuan-perempuan inilah yang memikat orang Israel atas nasihat Bileam sehingga mereka berkhianat kepada TUHAN di Peor. Karena itu umat TUHAN ditimpa wabah.17Jadi, kalian harus membunuh semua anak laki-laki orang Midian dan juga semua perempuan yang sudah tidak perawan.18Tetapi biarkanlah gadis yang masih perawan tetap hidup untuk menjadi istri atau budakmu.19Lalu kalian harus berkemah di luar perkemahan Israel selama tujuh hari. Pada hari yang ketiga dan ketujuh, semua orang di antara kalian yang sudah membunuh atau menyentuh mayat, dan juga semua gadis tawanan kalian, harus menyucikan diri.20Semua pakaian dan barang-barang yang terbuat dari kulit binatang, bulu kambing, dan kayu, harus disucikan juga.”21Kemudian Imam Eleazar berkata kepada seluruh tentara yang kembali dari pertempuran itu, “Inilah perintah yang TUHAN berikan melalui Musa:22Kalian harus menyucikan semua barang yang tahan api, seperti emas, perak, perunggu, besi, timah putih, dan timah hitam, dengan menaruhnya di atas api lalu memercikinya dengan air penyucian. Sedangkan semua barang yang tidak tahan api harus disucikan dengan air penyucian saja.24Pada hari ketujuh, kalian harus mencuci pakaian kalian. Sesudah itu kalian tidak lagi najis dan bisa kembali ke perkemahan. ”
Bagian: Pembagian barang rampasan
25Berkatalah TUHAN kepada Musa,26“Kamu, Eleazar, dan para pemimpin marga dalam setiap suku harus menghitung hasil rampasan dari pertempuran, termasuk para tawanan dan ternak.27Bagilah hasil rampasan itu menjadi dua. Setengah diberikan kepada pasukan yang pergi berperang, dan yang setengah lagi diberikan kepada umat Israel yang lain.28Dari setengah hasil rampasan itu yang adalah milik pasukan yang pergi berperang, berikanlah persembahan khusus kepada-Ku. Persembahan khusus itu adalah satu dari setiap lima ratus tawanan. Begitu juga untuk keledai, sapi, kambing, dan domba. Seekor hewan diberikan dari setiap lima ratus hewan sejenisnya. Semua persembahan khusus itu diberikan kepada Eleazar, yang akan membagikannya kepada para imam.30Persembahan khusus juga diambil dari hasil rampasan milik umat Israel, tetapi itu diberikan kepada suku Lewi, karena merekalah yang mengurus kemah-Ku. Mereka terima dua persen (yaitu satu dari setiap lima puluh) dari tawanan, kambing, sapi, domba, dan ternak lainnya.”31Maka Eleazar dan Musa melakukan sesuai perintah TUHAN kepada Musa.32Adapun jumlah hasil rampasan dari pertempuran itu adalah: 675.000 ekor kambing domba 72.000 ekor sapi 61.000 ekor keledai 32.000 gadis perawan.36Pasukan yang pergi berperang menerima setengahnya, yaitu: 337.500 ekor kambing domba 36.000 ekor sapi 30.500 ekor keledai 16.000 gadis perawan. Dari jumlah itu, yang diserahkan kepada para imam adalah: 675 ekor kambing domba 72 ekor sapi 61 ekor keledai 32 gadis perawan.41Musa menyerahkan bagian untuk TUHAN kepada Eleazar, sesuai perintah TUHAN kepadanya.42Dari hasil rampasan itu, setengahnya lagi adalah untuk umat Israel. Musa memisahkan bagian itu dari setengahnya yang menjadi milik pasukan yang pergi berperang.43Bagian untuk umat Israel adalah: 337.500 ekor kambing domba4436.000 ekor sapi4530.500 ekor keledai4616.000 gadis perawan.47Sesuai perintah TUHAN tersebut, Musa mengambil dua persen (yaitu satu dari setiap lima puluh) dari tawanan dan ternak, dan menyerahkannya kepada suku Lewi.48Kemudian para perwira dan komandan pasukan Israel datang menghadap Musa.49Mereka berkata, “Kami sudah menghitung setiap orang yang pergi berperang di bawah pimpinan kami, dan kami mendapati bahwa tidak ada satu pun yang mati terbunuh.50Karena itu, kami membawa perhiasan emas berupa gelang, cincin, anting, dan kalung dari hasil rampasan yang kami ambil masing-masing. Semua ini kami persembahkan kepada TUHAN sebagai ucapan terima kasih karena Dia melindungi kami.”51Maka para perwira dan komandan pasukan itu mempersembahkan berbagai macam perhiasan emas tersebut kepada TUHAN saat mereka menyerahkannya kepada Eleazar dan Musa. Berat emas itu mencapai 190 kilogram.53(Setiap prajurit masih juga menyimpan hasil rampasan yang lainnya.)54Semua emas yang diterima Eleazar dan Musa dari para pemimpin perang ditaruh dalam kemah TUHAN sebagai tanda terima kasih kepada-Nya dan sekaligus permohonan supaya TUHAN tetap menyertai bangsa Israel.
World English Bible (dengan Deuterokanonika)
1Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,2“Avenge the children of Israel on the Midianites. Afterward you shall be gathered to your people.”3Moses spoke to the people, saying, “Arm men from among you for war, that they may go against Midian, to execute Yahweh’s vengeance on Midian.4You shall send one thousand out of every tribe, throughout all the tribes of Israel, to the war.”5So there were delivered, out of the thousands of Israel, a thousand from every tribe, twelve thousand armed for war.6Moses sent them, one thousand of every tribe, to the war with Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, to the war, with the vessels of the sanctuary and the trumpets for the alarm in his hand.7They fought against Midian, as Yahweh commanded Moses. They killed every male.8They killed the kings of Midian with the rest of their slain: Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba, the five kings of Midian. They also killed Balaam the son of Beor with the sword.9The children of Israel took the women of Midian captive with their little ones; and all their livestock, all their flocks, and all their goods, they took as plunder.10All their cities in the places in which they lived, and all their encampments, they burned with fire.11They took all the captives, and all the plunder, both of man and of animal.12They brought the captives with the prey and the plunder, to Moses, and to Eleazar the priest, and to the congregation of the children of Israel, to the camp at the plains of Moab, which are by the Jordan at Jericho.13Moses and Eleazar the priest, with all the princes of the congregation, went out to meet them outside of the camp.14Moses was angry with the officers of the army, the captains of thousands and the captains of hundreds, who came from the service of the war.15Moses said to them, “Have you saved all the women alive?16Behold, these caused the children of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to commit trespass against Yahweh in the matter of Peor, and so the plague was among the congregation of Yahweh.17Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who has known man by lying with him.18But all the girls, who have not known man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.19“Encamp outside of the camp for seven days. Whoever has killed any person, and whoever has touched any slain, purify yourselves on the third day and on the seventh day, you and your captives.20You shall purify every garment, and all that is made of skin, and all work of goats’ hair, and all things made of wood.”21Eleazar the priest said to the men of war who went to the battle, “This is the statute of the law which Yahweh has commanded Moses.22However the gold, and the silver, the bronze, the iron, the tin, and the lead,23everything that may withstand the fire, you shall make to go through the fire, and it shall be clean; nevertheless it shall be purified with the water for impurity. All that doesn’t withstand the fire you shall make to go through the water.24You shall wash your clothes on the seventh day, and you shall be clean. Afterward you shall come into the camp.”25Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,26“Count the plunder that was taken, both of man and of animal, you, and Eleazar the priest, and the heads of the fathers’ households of the congregation;27and divide the plunder into two parts: between the men skilled in war, who went out to battle, and all the congregation.28Levy a tribute to Yahweh of the men of war who went out to battle: one soul of five hundred; of the persons, of the cattle, of the donkeys, and of the flocks.29Take it from their half, and give it to Eleazar the priest, for Yahweh’s wave offering.30Of the children of Israel’s half, you shall take one drawn out of every fifty, of the persons, of the cattle, of the donkeys, and of the flocks, of all the livestock, and give them to the Levites, who perform the duty of Yahweh’s tabernacle.”31Moses and Eleazar the priest did as Yahweh commanded Moses.32Now the plunder, over and above the booty which the men of war took, was six hundred seventy-five thousand sheep,33seventy-two thousand head of cattle,34sixty-one thousand donkeys,35and thirty-two thousand persons in all, of the women who had not known man by lying with him.36The half, which was the portion of those who went out to war, was in number three hundred thirty-seven thousand five hundred sheep;37and Yahweh’s tribute of the sheep was six hundred seventy-five.38The cattle were thirty-six thousand, of which Yahweh’s tribute was seventy-two.39The donkeys were thirty thousand five hundred, of which Yahweh’s tribute was sixty-one.40The persons were sixteen thousand, of whom Yahweh’s tribute was thirty-two persons.41Moses gave the tribute, which was Yahweh’s wave offering, to Eleazar the priest, as Yahweh commanded Moses.42Of the children of Israel’s half, which Moses divided off from the men who fought43(now the congregation’s half was three hundred thirty-seven thousand five hundred sheep,44thirty-six thousand head of cattle,45thirty thousand five hundred donkeys,46and sixteen thousand persons),47even of the children of Israel’s half, Moses took one drawn out of every fifty, both of man and of animal, and gave them to the Levites, who performed the duty of Yahweh’s tabernacle, as Yahweh commanded Moses.48The officers who were over the thousands of the army, the captains of thousands, and the captains of hundreds, came near to Moses.49They said to Moses, “Your servants have taken the sum of the men of war who are under our command, and there lacks not one man of us.50We have brought Yahweh’s offering, what every man found: gold ornaments, armlets, bracelets, signet rings, earrings, and necklaces, to make atonement for our souls before Yahweh.”51Moses and Eleazar the priest took their gold, even all worked jewels.52All the gold of the wave offering that they offered up to Yahweh, of the captains of thousands, and of the captains of hundreds, was sixteen thousand seven hundred fifty shekels.53The men of war had taken booty, every man for himself.54Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold of the captains of thousands and of hundreds, and brought it into the Tent of Meeting for a memorial for the children of Israel before Yahweh.