Day 55 of 364

^29:1“‘In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you shall have a holy convocation; you shall do no regular work. It is a day of blowing of trumpets to you. ^29:2You shall offer a burnt offering for a pleasant aroma to the LORD: one young bull, one ram, seven male lambs a year old without defect; ^29:3and their meal offering, fine flour mixed with oil: three tenths for the bull, two tenths for the ram, ^29:4and one tenth for every lamb of the seven lambs; ^29:5and one male goat for a sin offering, to make atonement for you; ^29:6in addition to the burnt offering of the new moon with its meal offering, and the continual burnt offering with its meal offering, and their drink offerings, according to their ordinance, for a pleasant aroma, an offering made by fire to the LORD. ^29:7“‘On the tenth day of this seventh month you shall have a holy convocation. You shall afflict your souls. You shall do no kind of work; ^29:8but you shall offer a burnt offering to the LORD for a pleasant aroma: one young bull, one ram, seven male lambs a year old, all without defect; ^29:9and their meal offering, fine flour mixed with oil: three tenths for the bull, two tenths for the one ram, ^29:10one tenth for every lamb of the seven lambs; ^29:11one male goat for a sin offering, in addition to the sin offering of atonement, and the continual burnt offering, and its meal offering, and their drink offerings. ^29:12“‘On the fifteenth day of the seventh month you shall have a holy convocation. You shall do no regular work. You shall keep a feast to the LORD seven days. ^29:13You shall offer a burnt offering, an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to the LORD: thirteen young bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old, all without defect; ^29:14and their meal offering, fine flour mixed with oil: three tenths for every bull of the thirteen bulls, two tenths for each ram of the two rams, ^29:15and one tenth for every lamb of the fourteen lambs; ^29:16and one male goat for a sin offering, in addition to the continual burnt offering, its meal offering, and its drink offering. ^29:17“‘On the second day you shall offer twelve young bulls, two rams, and fourteen male lambs a year old without defect; ^29:18and their meal offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number, after the ordinance; ^29:19and one male goat for a sin offering, in addition to the continual burnt offering, with its meal offering and their drink offerings. ^29:20“‘On the third day: eleven bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old without defect; ^29:21and their meal offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number, after the ordinance; ^29:22and one male goat for a sin offering, in addition to the continual burnt offering, and its meal offering, and its drink offering. ^29:23“‘On the fourth day ten bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old without defect; ^29:24their meal offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number, after the ordinance; ^29:25and one male goat for a sin offering; in addition to the continual burnt offering, its meal offering, and its drink offering. ^29:26“‘On the fifth day: nine bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old without defect; ^29:27and their meal offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number, after the ordinance, ^29:28and one male goat for a sin offering, in addition to the continual burnt offering, and its meal offering, and its drink offering. ^29:29“‘On the sixth day: eight bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old without defect; ^29:30and their meal offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number, after the ordinance, ^29:31and one male goat for a sin offering; in addition to the continual burnt offering, its meal offering, and the drink offerings of it. ^29:32“‘On the seventh day: seven bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old without defect; ^29:33and their meal offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number, after the ordinance, ^29:34and one male goat for a sin offering; in addition to the continual burnt offering, its meal offering, and its drink offering. ^29:35“‘On the eighth day you shall have a solemn assembly. You shall do no regular work; ^29:36but you shall offer a burnt offering, an offering made by fire, a pleasant aroma to the LORD: one bull, one ram, seven male lambs a year old without defect; ^29:37their meal offering and their drink offerings for the bull, for the ram, and for the lambs, shall be according to their number, after the ordinance, ^29:38and one male goat for a sin offering, in addition to the continual burnt offering, with its meal offering, and its drink offering. ^29:39“‘You shall offer these to the LORD in your set feasts—in addition to your vows and your free will offerings—for your burnt offerings, your meal offerings, your drink offerings, and your peace offerings.’” ^29:40Moses told the children of Israel according to all that the LORD commanded Moses. ^30:1Moses spoke to the heads of the tribes of the children of Israel, saying, “This is the thing which the LORD has commanded. ^30:2When a man vows a vow to the LORD, or swears an oath to bind his soul with a bond, he shall not break his word. He shall do according to all that proceeds out of his mouth. ^30:3“Also, when a woman vows a vow to the LORD and binds herself by a pledge, being in her father’s house, in her youth, ^30:4and her father hears her vow and her pledge with which she has bound her soul, and her father says nothing to her, then all her vows shall stand, and every pledge with which she has bound her soul shall stand. ^30:5But if her father forbids her in the day that he hears, none of her vows or of her pledges with which she has bound her soul, shall stand. The LORD will forgive her, because her father has forbidden her. ^30:6“If she has a husband, while her vows are on her, or the rash utterance of her lips with which she has bound her soul, ^30:7and her husband hears it, and says nothing to her in the day that he hears it; then her vows shall stand, and her pledges with which she has bound her soul shall stand. ^30:8But if her husband forbids her in the day that he hears it, then he makes void her vow which is on her and the rash utterance of her lips, with which she has bound her soul. The LORD will forgive her. ^30:9“But the vow of a widow, or of her who is divorced, everything with which she has bound her soul shall stand against her. ^30:10“If she vowed in her husband’s house or bound her soul by a bond with an oath, ^30:11and her husband heard it, and held his peace at her and didn’t disallow her, then all her vows shall stand, and every pledge with which she bound her soul shall stand. ^30:12But if her husband made them null and void in the day that he heard them, then whatever proceeded out of her lips concerning her vows, or concerning the bond of her soul, shall not stand. Her husband has made them void. The LORD will forgive her. ^30:13Every vow, and every binding oath to afflict the soul, her husband may establish it, or her husband may make it void. ^30:14But if her husband says nothing to her from day to day, then he establishes all her vows or all her pledges which are on her. He has established them, because he said nothing to her in the day that he heard them. ^30:15But if he makes them null and void after he has heard them, then he shall bear her iniquity.” ^30:16These are the statutes which the LORD commanded Moses, between a man and his wife, between a father and his daughter, being in her youth, in her father’s house. ^31:1The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, ^31:2“Avenge the children of Israel on the Midianites. Afterward you shall be gathered to your people.” ^31:3Moses spoke to the people, saying, “Arm men from among you for war, that they may go against Midian, to execute the LORD’s vengeance on Midian. ^31:4You shall send one thousand out of every tribe, throughout all the tribes of Israel, to the war.” ^31:5So there were delivered, out of the thousands of Israel, a thousand from every tribe, twelve thousand armed for war. ^31:6Moses 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. ^31:7They fought against Midian, as the LORD commanded Moses. They killed every male. ^31:8They 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. ^31:9The 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. ^31:10All their cities in the places in which they lived, and all their encampments, they burned with fire. ^31:11They took all the captives, and all the plunder, both of man and of animal. ^31:12They 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. ^31:13Moses and Eleazar the priest, with all the princes of the congregation, went out to meet them outside of the camp. ^31:14Moses 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. ^31:15Moses said to them, “Have you saved all the women alive? ^31:16Behold, these caused the children of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to commit trespass against the LORD in the matter of Peor, and so the plague was among the congregation of the LORD. ^31:17Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who has known man by lying with him. ^31:18But all the girls, who have not known man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves. ^31:19“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. ^31:20You shall purify every garment, and all that is made of skin, and all work of goats’ hair, and all things made of wood.” ^31:21Eleazar the priest said to the men of war who went to the battle, “This is the statute of the law which the LORD has commanded Moses. ^31:22However the gold, and the silver, the bronze, the iron, the tin, and the lead, ^31:23everything 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. ^31:24You shall wash your clothes on the seventh day, and you shall be clean. Afterward you shall come into the camp.” ^31:25The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, ^31:26“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; ^31:27and divide the plunder into two parts: between the men skilled in war, who went out to battle, and all the congregation. ^31:28Levy a tribute to the LORD 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. ^31:29Take it from their half, and give it to Eleazar the priest, for the LORD’s wave offering. ^31:30Of 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 the LORD’s tabernacle.” ^31:31Moses and Eleazar the priest did as the LORD commanded Moses. ^31:32Now the plunder, over and above the booty which the men of war took, was six hundred seventy-five thousand sheep, ^31:33seventy-two thousand head of cattle, ^31:34sixty-one thousand donkeys, ^31:35and thirty-two thousand persons in all, of the women who had not known man by lying with him. ^31:36The half, which was the portion of those who went out to war, was in number three hundred thirty-seven thousand five hundred sheep; ^31:37and the LORD’s tribute of the sheep was six hundred seventy-five. ^31:38The cattle were thirty-six thousand, of which the LORD’s tribute was seventy-two. ^31:39The donkeys were thirty thousand five hundred, of which the LORD’s tribute was sixty-one. ^31:40The persons were sixteen thousand, of whom the LORD’s tribute was thirty-two persons. ^31:41Moses gave the tribute, which was the LORD’s wave offering, to Eleazar the priest, as the LORD commanded Moses. ^31:42Of the children of Israel’s half, which Moses divided off from the men who fought ^31:43(now the congregation’s half was three hundred thirty-seven thousand five hundred sheep, ^31:44thirty-six thousand head of cattle, ^31:45thirty thousand five hundred donkeys, ^31:46and sixteen thousand persons), ^31:47even 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 the LORD’s tabernacle, as the LORD commanded Moses. ^31:48The officers who were over the thousands of the army, the captains of thousands, and the captains of hundreds, came near to Moses. ^31:49They 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. ^31:50We have brought the LORD’s offering, what every man found: gold ornaments, armlets, bracelets, signet rings, earrings, and necklaces, to make atonement for our souls before the LORD.” ^31:51Moses and Eleazar the priest took their gold, even all worked jewels. ^31:52All the gold of the wave offering that they offered up to the LORD, of the captains of thousands, and of the captains of hundreds, was sixteen thousand seven hundred fifty shekels. ^31:53The men of war had taken booty, every man for himself. ^31:54Moses 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 the LORD.