Quotes About Sacrifice

and carried away all the plunder and spoils, both people and animals.

“Have you spared all the women?” he asked them.

So now, kill all the boys, as well as every woman who has had relations with a man,

but spare for yourselves every girl who has never had relations with a man.

All of you who have killed a person or touched the dead are to remain outside the camp for seven days. On the third day and the seventh day you are to purify both yourselves and your captives.

And purify every garment and leather good, everything made of goatís hair, and every article of wood.”

Only the gold, silver, bronze, iron, tin, and lead—

On the seventh day you are to wash your clothes, and you will be clean. After that you may enter the camp.”

Set aside a tribute for the LORD from what belongs to the soldiers who went into battle: one out of every five hundred, whether persons, cattle, donkeys, or sheep.

Take it from their half and give it to Eleazar the priest as an offering to the LORD.

So Moses and Eleazar the priest did as the LORD had commanded Moses,

and this plunder remained from the spoils the soldiers had taken: 675,000 sheep,

72,000 cattle,

and 32,000 women who had not slept with a man.

This was the half portion for those who had gone to war: 337,500 sheep,

including a tribute to the LORD of 675,

36,000 cattle, including a tribute to the LORD of 72,

30,500 donkeys, including a tribute to the LORD of 61,

and 16,000 people, including a tribute to the LORD of 32.

Moses gave the tribute to Eleazar the priest as an offering for the LORD, as the LORD had commanded Moses.

this half belonged to the congregation: 337,500 sheep,

36,000 cattle,

From the Israelitesí half, Moses took one out of every fifty persons and animals and gave them to the Levites who kept charge of the tabernacle of the LORD, as the LORD had commanded him.

So we have brought to the LORD an offering of the gold articles each man acquired—armlets, bracelets, rings, earrings, and necklaces—to make atonement for ourselves before the LORD.”