Verse 15
Numbers 31:15
Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition
15
Said: Why have you saved the women?
Original Language Text
hebrew
וַ/יֹּ֥אמֶר אֲלֵי/הֶ֖ם מֹשֶׁ֑ה הַֽ/חִיִּיתֶ֖ם כָּל נְקֵבָֽה
English Translation
And Moses said to them, "You have kept alive every female."
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Chapter 31 Context
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And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
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Revenge first the children of Israel on the Madianites, and so thou shalt be gathered to thy people.
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And Moses forthwith said: Arm of you men to fight, who may take the revenge of the Lord on the Madia...
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Let a thousand men be chosen out of every tribe of Israel to be sent to the war.
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And they gave a thousand of every tribe, that is to say, twelve thousand men well appointed for batt...
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And Moses sent them with Phinees the son of Eleazar the priest, and he delivered to him the holy ves...
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And when they had fought against the Madianites and had overcome them, they slew all the men.
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And their kings Evi, and Recem, and Sur, and Hur, and Rebe, five princes of the nation: Balaam also...
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And they took their women, and their children captives, and all their cattle, and all their goods: a...
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And all their cities, and their villages, and castles, they burned.
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And they carried away the booty, and all that they had taken both of men and of beasts.
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And they brought them to Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and to all the multitude of the children of...
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And Moses and Eleazar the priest and all the princes of the synagogue went forth to meet them withou...
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And Moses being angry with the chief officers of the army, the tribunes, and the centurions that wer...
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Said: Why have you saved the women?
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Are not these they, that deceived the children of Israel by the counsel of Balaam, and made you tran...
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Therefore kill all that are of the male sex, even of the children: and put to death the women, that...
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But the girls, and all the women that are virgins save for yourselves:
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And stay without the camp seven days. He that hath killed a man, or touched one that is killed, shal...
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And of all the spoil, every garment, or vessel, or any thing made for use, of the skins, or hair of...
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Eleazar also the priest spoke to the men of the army, that had fought, in this manner: This is the o...
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Gold, and silver, and brass, and iron, and lend, and tin,
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And all that may pass through the fire, shall be purified by fire, but whatsoever cannot abide the f...
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And you shall wash your garments the seventh day, and being purified, you shall afterwards enter int...
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And the Lord said to Moses:
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Take the sum of the things that were taken both of man and beast, thou and Eleazar the priest and th...
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And thou shalt divide the spoil equally, between them that fought and went out to the war, and betwe...
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And thou shalt separate a portion to the Lord from them that fought and were in the battle, one soul...
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And thou shalt give it to Eleazar the priest, because they are the firstfruits of the Lord.
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Out of the moiety also of the children of Israel thou shalt take the fiftieth head of persons, and o...
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And Moses and Eleazar did as the Lord had commanded.
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And the spoil which the army had taken, was six hundred seventy-five thousand sheep,
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Seventy-two thousand oxen,
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Sixty-one thousand asses:
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And thirty-two thousand persons of the female sex, that had not known men.
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And one half was given to them that had been in the battle, to wit, three hundred thirty-seven thous...
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Out of which, for the portion of the Lord, were reckoned six hundred seventy-five sheep.
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And out of the thirty-six thousand oxen, seventy-two oxen:
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Out of the thirty thousand five hundred asses, sixty-one asses:
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Out of the sixteen thousand persons, there fell to the portion of the Lord, thirty-two souls.
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And Moses delivered the number of the firstfruits of the Lord to Eleazar the priest, as had been com...
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Out of the half of the children of Israel, which he had separated for them that had been in the batt...
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But out of the half that fell to the rest of the multitude, that is to say, out of the three hundred...
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And out of the thirty-six thousand oxen,
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And out of the thirty thousand five hundred asses,
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And out of the sixteen thousand persons,
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Moses took the fiftieth head, and gave it to the Levites that watched in the tabernacle of the Lord,...
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And when the commanders of the army, and the tribunes and centurions were come to Moses, they said:
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We thy servants have reckoned up the number of the fighting men, whom we had under our hand, and not...
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Therefore we offer as gifts to the Lord what gold every one of us could find in the booty, in garter...
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And Moses and Eleazar the priest received all the gold in divers kinds,
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In weight sixteen thousand seven hundred and fifty sicles, from the tribunes and from the centurions...
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For that which every one had taken in the booty was his own.
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And that which was received they brought into the tabernacle of the testimony, for a memorial of the...
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Verse Information
- Book
- Numbers
- Chapter
- Chapter 31 (54 verses)
- Version
- Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition