Verse 49
Numbers 31:49
Bible in Basic English
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And said to him, Your servants have taken note of the number of all the fighting-men under our orders, and every one is present;
Original Language Text
hebrew
וַ/יֹּֽאמְרוּ֙ אֶל מֹשֶׁ֔ה עֲבָדֶ֣י/ךָ נָֽשְׂא֗וּ אֶת רֹ֛אשׁ אַנְשֵׁ֥י הַ/מִּלְחָמָ֖ה אֲשֶׁ֣ר בְּ/יָדֵ֑/נוּ וְ/לֹא נִפְקַ֥ד מִמֶּ֖/נּוּ אִֽישׁ
English Translation
And they said to Moses, "Your servants will take a count of the heads of the men of war who are with us, and not a single one of us will be missing."
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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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