Verse 7
Numbers 31:7
World English Bible, British Edition
7
They fought against Midian, as the LORD commanded Moses. They killed
every male.
Original Language Text
hebrew
וַֽ/יִּצְבְּאוּ֙ עַל מִדְיָ֔ן כַּ/אֲשֶׁ֛ר צִוָּ֥ה יְהוָ֖ה אֶת מֹשֶׁ֑ה וַ/יַּֽהַרְג֖וּ כָּל זָכָֽר
English Translation
And they besieged Midian, as the LORD commanded Moses, and they killed every male.
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Chapter 31 Context
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The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
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“Avenge the children of Israel on the Midianites. Afterward you shall
be gathered to your people.”
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Moses spoke to the people, saying, “Arm men from amongst you for
war, that they may go against Midia...
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You shall send one thousand out of every tribe, throughout all the tribes
of Israel, to the war.”
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So there were delivered, out of the thousands of Israel, a thousand from
every tribe, twelve thousan...
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Moses sent them, one thousand of every tribe, to the war with Phinehas
the son of Eleazar the priest...
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They fought against Midian, as the LORD commanded Moses. They killed
every male.
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They killed the kings of Midian with the rest of their slain: Evi, Rekem,
Zur, Hur, and Reba, the fi...
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The children of Israel took the women of Midian captive with their little
ones; and all their livest...
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All their cities in the places in which they lived, and all their encampments,
they burnt with fire.
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They took all the captives, and all the plunder, both of man and of
animal.
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12
They brought the captives with the prey and the plunder, to Moses,
and to Eleazar the priest, and to...
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13
Moses and Eleazar the priest, with all the princes of the congregation,
went out to meet them outsid...
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Moses was angry with the officers of the army, the captains of thousands
and the captains of hundred...
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Moses said to them, “Have you saved all the women alive?
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Behold, these caused the children of Israel, through the counsel of
Balaam, to commit trespass again...
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Now therefore kill every male amongst the little ones, and kill every
woman who has known man by lyi...
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But all the girls, who have not known man by lying with him, keep alive
for yourselves.
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“Encamp outside of the camp for seven days. Whoever has killed
any person, and whoever has touched a...
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You shall purify every garment, and all that is made of skin, and all
work of goats’ hair, and all t...
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Eleazar the priest said to the men of war who went to the battle,
“This is the statute of the law wh...
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22
However the gold, and the silver, the bronze, the iron, the tin, and
the lead,
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everything that may withstand the fire, you shall make to go through
the fire, and it shall be clean...
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You shall wash your clothes on the seventh day, and you shall be clean.
Afterward you shall come int...
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The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
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“Count the plunder that was taken, both of man and of animal, you,
and Eleazar the priest, and the h...
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and divide the plunder into two parts: between the men skilled in war,
who went out to battle, and a...
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Levy a tribute to the LORD of the men of war who went out to battle:
one soul of five hundred; of th...
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Take it from their half, and give it to Eleazar the priest, for the
LORD’s wave offering.
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Of the children of Israel’s half, you shall take one drawn out of every
fifty, of the persons, of th...
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Moses and Eleazar the priest did as the LORD commanded Moses.
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Now the plunder, over and above the booty which the men of war
took, was six hundred and seventy-fiv...
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seventy-two thousand head of cattle,
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sixty-one thousand donkeys,
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and thirty-two thousand persons in all, of the women who had not known
man by lying with him.
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The half, which was the portion of those who went out to war, was in
number three hundred and thirty...
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and the LORD’s tribute of the sheep was six hundred and seventy-five.
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The cattle were thirty-six thousand, of which the LORD’s tribute was
seventy-two.
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The donkeys were thirty thousand and five hundred, of which the LORD’s
tribute was sixty-one.
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The persons were sixteen thousand, of whom the LORD’s tribute was thirty-two
persons.
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Moses gave the tribute, which was the LORD’s wave offering, to Eleazar
the priest, as the LORD comma...
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Of the children of Israel’s half, which Moses divided off from the
men who fought
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(now the congregation’s half was three hundred and thirty-seven thousand and five
hundred sheep,
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thirty-six thousand head of cattle,
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thirty thousand and five hundred donkeys,
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and sixteen thousand persons),
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even of the children of Israel’s half, Moses took one drawn out of
every fifty, both of man and of a...
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48
The officers who were over the thousands of the army, the captains
of thousands, and the captains of...
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49
They said to Moses, “Your servants have taken the sum of the men of
war who are under our command, a...
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We have brought the LORD’s offering, what every man found: gold ornaments,
armlets, bracelets, signe...
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Moses and Eleazar the priest took their gold, even all worked
jewels.
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All the gold of the wave offering that they offered up to the LORD,
of the captains of thousands, an...
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The men of war had taken booty, every man for himself.
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Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold of the captains of thousands
and of hundreds, and brought...
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Verse Information
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- Numbers
- Chapter
- Chapter 31 (54 verses)
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- World English Bible, British Edition