Verse 5
Numbers 31:5
GOD'S WORD Translation
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So there were delivered, out of the thousands of Israel, a thousand of every tribe, twelve thousand armed for war.
Original Language Text
hebrew
וַ/יִּמָּֽסְרוּ֙ מֵ/אַלְפֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל אֶ֖לֶף לַ/מַּטֶּ֑ה שְׁנֵים עָשָׂ֥ר אֶ֖לֶף חֲלוּצֵ֥י צָבָֽא
English Translation
And they delivered from the thousands of Israel a thousand for the tribe, twelve thousand armed men.
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Chapter 31 Context
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Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
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“Avenge the children of Israel for the Midianites. Afterward you shall be gathered to your people.”
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Moses spoke to the people, saying, “Arm men from among you for the war, that they may go against Mid...
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Of every tribe one thousand, throughout all the tribes of Israel, you shall send to the war.”
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So there were delivered, out of the thousands of Israel, a thousand of every tribe, twelve thousand...
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Moses sent them, one thousand of every tribe, to the war, them and Phinehas the son of Eleazar the p...
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They fought against Midian, as Yahweh 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 burned 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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They brought the captives, and the prey, and the plunder, to Moses, and to Eleazar the priest, and t...
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Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and 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 among the little ones, and kill every woman who has known man by lying...
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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 seven days. Whoever has killed any person, and whoever has touched any s...
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As to every garment, and all that is made of skin, and all work of goats’ hair, and all things made...
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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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however the gold, and the silver, the brass, 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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Yahweh 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 Yahweh of the men of war who went out to battle: one soul of five hundred; of the...
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Take it from their half, and give it to Eleazar the priest, for Yahweh’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 Yahweh commanded Moses.
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Now the plunder, over and above the booty which the men of war took, was six hundred seventy-five th...
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and seventy-two thousand head of cattle,
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and 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 thirty-sev...
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and Yahweh’s tribute of the sheep was six hundred seventy-five.
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The cattle were thirty-six thousand; of which Yahweh’s tribute was seventy-two.
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The donkeys were thirty thousand five hundred; of which Yahweh’s tribute was sixty-one.
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The persons were sixteen thousand; of whom Yahweh’s tribute was thirty-two persons.
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Moses gave the tribute, which was Yahweh’s wave offering, to Eleazar the priest, as Yahweh commanded...
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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 thirty-seven thousand five hundred sheep,
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and thirty-six thousand head of cattle,
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and thirty thousand 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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The officers who were over the thousands of the army, the captains of thousands, and the captains of...
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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 Yahweh’s offering, what every man has gotten, of jewels of gold, armlets, and bracel...
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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 Yahweh, of the captains of thousands, and...
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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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