Verse 47
Numbers 31:47
Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition
47
Moses took the fiftieth head, and gave it to the Levites that watched in the tabernacle of the Lord, as the Lord had commanded.
Original Language Text
hebrew
וַ/יִּקַּ֨ח מֹשֶׁ֜ה מִ/מַּחֲצִ֣ת בְּנֵֽי יִשְׂרָאֵ֗ל אֶת הָֽ/אָחֻז֙ אֶחָ֣ד מִן הַ/חֲמִשִּׁ֔ים מִן הָ/אָדָ֖ם וּ/מִן הַ/בְּהֵמָ֑ה וַ/יִּתֵּ֨ן אֹתָ֜/ם לַ/לְוִיִּ֗ם שֹֽׁמְרֵי֙ מִשְׁמֶ֨רֶת֙ מִשְׁכַּ֣ן יְהוָ֔ה כַּ/אֲשֶׁ֛ר צִוָּ֥ה יְהוָ֖ה אֶת מֹשֶֽׁה
English Translation
And Moses took from half of the children of Israel one portion of the five hundred from the people and from the animals, and he gave them to the Levites, the keepers of the charge of the tabernacle of the Lord, as the Lord had commanded Moses.
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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
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- Numbers
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- Chapter 31 (54 verses)
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- Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition