Verse 6
Numbers 31:6
Free Bible Version
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Moses sent them into battle, one thousand from each tribe, together with Phinehas, son of Eleazar the priest. He carried with him the holy objects from the sanctuary and the trumpets used for giving signals.
Original Language Text
hebrew
וַ/יִּשְׁלַ֨ח אֹתָ֥/ם מֹשֶׁ֛ה אֶ֥לֶף לַ/מַּטֶּ֖ה לַ/צָּבָ֑א אֹ֠תָ/ם וְ/אֶת פִּ֨ינְחָ֜ס בֶּן אֶלְעָזָ֤ר הַ/כֹּהֵן֙ לַ/צָּבָ֔א וּ/כְלֵ֥י הַ/קֹּ֛דֶשׁ וַ/חֲצֹצְר֥וֹת הַ/תְּרוּעָ֖ה בְּ/יָדֽ/וֹ
English Translation
And Moses sent them, a thousand from each tribe for the army, and Pinchas the son of Eleazar the priest to the army, and the holy vessels and the trumpets for the sound in his hand.
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Chapter 31 Context
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The Lord told Moses,
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“Punish the Midianites because of what they did to the Israelites. After that you will join your for...
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Moses instructed the people, “Have some of your men get ready for battle, so they can go and attack...
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You are to contribute one thousand men from each Israelite tribe.”
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So one thousand men were chosen from each Israelite tribe, making twelve thousand troops ready for b...
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Moses sent them into battle, one thousand from each tribe, together with Phinehas, son of Eleazar th...
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They attacked the Midianites, as the Lord had told Moses to do, and they killed all the men.
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Among those killed were the five kings of Midian, Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba. They also killed B...
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The Israelites captured the Midianite women and children, and they took as plunder all their herds,...
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They set fire to all the Midianite towns and camps where they had lived,
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and carried away all the plunder and loot, including people and animals.
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They brought the prisoners, loot, and plunder to Moses, to Eleazar the priest, and to the rest of th...
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Moses, Eleazar the priest, and all the Israelite leaders went out of the camp to meet them.
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Moses was angry with the army officers, the commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds, who...
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“Why did you let all the women live?” he asked them.
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“You realize that these were the same women who seduced the Israelite men, leading them to be unfait...
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So go and kill all the boys, and every woman who has slept with a man.
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Let all the girls who are virgins live. They are yours.
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All those of you who killed someone or touched a dead body must stay outside the camp for seven days...
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Also purify all your clothing and anything made of leather, goat's hair, or wood.”
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Eleazar the priest told the soldiers who had gone into battle, “These are the legal regulations that...
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All that's made of gold, silver, bronze, iron, tin, and lead—
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anything that doesn't burn—must be put through fire to make it clean. But it still has to be purifie...
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Wash your clothes on the seventh day and you will be clean. Then you can enter the camp.”
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The Lord told Moses,
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“You, Eleazar the priest, and the Israelite family leaders are to take a record of the people and an...
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Take as a contribution to the Lord from what is allocated to the troops who went into battle one out...
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From the Israelites half share, take one out of every fifty people, cattle, donkeys, or sheep, or ot...
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This was the list of plunder remaining that had been looted by the troops: 675,000 sheep,
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72,000 cattle,
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61,000 donkeys,
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and 32,000 virgins.
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This was the half share for those who had gone to fight: 337,500 sheep,
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with a contribution for the Lord of 675,
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36,000 cattle, with a Lord's contribution of 72,
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30,500 donkeys, with a Lord's contribution of 61,
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and 16,000 people, with a Lord's contribution of 32.
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The Israelites' half share left after Moses had given the half share to the troops who had gone to f...
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consisted of: 337,500 sheep,
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36,000 cattle,
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30,500 donkeys,
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and 16,000 people.
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Moses took from the Israelites' half one out of every fifty people and animals and gave them to the...
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The army officers, the commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds, came to Moses
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and told him, “We, your servants, have checked the troops we command and not a single man is missing...
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So we have brought the Lord an offering of the gold objects each man received—armlets, bracelets, ri...
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The gold that the commanders of thousands and of hundreds gave as an offering to the Lord weighed in...
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(The men who had fought in the battle had each taken plunder for himself.)
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