Verse 30
Numbers 31:30
Bible in Basic English
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And from the part given to the children of Israel, take one out of every fifty, from the persons, and from the oxen and asses and sheep, and give it to the Levites who have the care of the House of the Lord.
Original Language Text
hebrew
וּ/מִ/מַּחֲצִ֨ת בְּנֵֽי יִשְׂרָאֵ֜ל תִּקַּ֣ח אֶחָ֣ד אָחֻ֣ז מִן הַ/חֲמִשִּׁ֗ים מִן הָ/אָדָ֧ם מִן הַ/בָּקָ֛ר מִן הַ/חֲמֹרִ֥ים וּ/מִן הַ/צֹּ֖אן מִ/כָּל הַ/בְּהֵמָ֑ה וְ/נָתַתָּ֤ה אֹתָ/ם֙ לַ/לְוִיִּ֔ם שֹׁמְרֵ֕י מִשְׁמֶ֖רֶת מִשְׁכַּ֥ן יְהוָֽה
English Translation
Take one from every fifty of the children of Israel, from the people, from the cattle, from the donkeys, and from the sheep, from all the animals, and you shall give them to the Levites who keep charge of the tabernacle of the Lord.
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Chapter 31 Context
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Then the Lord said to Moses,
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Give the Midianites punishment for the wrong they did to the children of Israel: and after that you...
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So Moses said to the people, Let men from among you be armed for war to put into effect against Midi...
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From every tribe of Israel send a thousand to the war.
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So from the thousands of Israel a thousand were taken from every tribe, twelve thousand men armed fo...
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And Moses sent them out to war, a thousand from every tribe, and with them Phinehas, the son of Elea...
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And they made war on Midian, as the Lord gave orders to Moses; and they put to death every male.
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They put the kings of Midian to death with the rest, Evi and Reken and Zur and Hur and Reba, the fiv...
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The women of Midian with their little ones the children of Israel took prisoner; and all their cattl...
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And after burning all their towns and all their tent-circles,
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They went away with the goods they had taken, man and beast.
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And the prisoners and the goods and everything they had taken, they took to Moses and Eleazar the pr...
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Then Moses and Eleazar the priest and the chiefs of the people went out to them before they had come...
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And Moses was angry with the chiefs of the army, the captains of thousands and the captains of hundr...
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And Moses said to them, Why have you kept all the women safe?
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It was these who, moved by Balaam, were the cause of Israel's sin against the Lord in the question o...
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So now put every male child to death, and every woman who has had sex relations with a man.
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But all the female children who have had no sex relations with men, you may keep for yourselves.
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You yourselves will have to keep outside the tent-circle for seven days, anyone of you who has put a...
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And every bit of clothing, and anything made of leather or goats' hair or wood, you are to make clea...
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Then Eleazar the priest said to the men of war who had been to the fight, This is the rule of the la...
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But gold and silver and brass and iron and tin and lead,
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And anything which may be heated, is to go through the fire and be made clean; but in addition it is...
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And on the seventh day, after washing your clothing, you will be clean, and then you may come into t...
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And the Lord said to Moses,
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Get an account of everything which was taken in the war, of man and of beast, you and Eleazar the pr...
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And let division be made of it into two parts, one for the men of war who went out to the fight, and...
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And from the men of war who went out let there be offered to the Lord one out of every five hundred,...
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Take this from their part and give it to Eleazar the priest as an offering to be lifted up to the Lo...
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And from the part given to the children of Israel, take one out of every fifty, from the persons, an...
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So Eleazar and Moses did as the Lord had given orders to Moses.
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Now the beasts taken, in addition to what the fighting-men took for themselves, were six hundred and...
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And seventy-two thousand oxen,
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And sixty-one thousand asses;
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And thirty-two thousand persons, that is, women who had never had sex relations with a man.
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And the half given as their part to the men who went to the war, was three hundred and thirty-seven...
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Of which the Lord's part was six hundred and seventy-five.
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The number of oxen was thirty-six thousand, of which the Lord's part was seventy-two;
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The number of asses was thirty thousand, five hundred, of which the Lord's part was sixty-one.
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And the number of persons was sixteen thousand, of which the Lord's part was thirty-two persons.
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And Moses gave the Lord's part, lifted up as an offering, to Eleazar the priest, as the Lord had giv...
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And from the half given to the children of Israel, which Moses had kept separate from that given to...
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(Now the people's half was three hundred and thirty-seven thousand, five hundred sheep,
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And thirty-six thousand oxen,
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And thirty thousand, five hundred asses,
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And sixteen thousand persons;)
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Even from the children of Israel's half, Moses took one out of every fifty, men and beasts, and gave...
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Then the men in authority over the thousands of the army, the captains of thousands and captains of...
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And said to him, Your servants have taken note of the number of all the fighting-men under our order...
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And we have here an offering for the Lord from what every man took in the war, ornaments of gold, le...
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So Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold from them, even all the worked ornaments.
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And the gold which the captains of thousands and captains of hundreds gave, as an offering to be lif...
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(For every man of the army had taken goods for himself in the war.)
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Then Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold given by the captains of thousands and captains of h...
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