Verse 54
Numbers 31:54
Literal Standard Version
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and Moses takes—Eleazar the priest also—the gold from the heads of the thousands and of the hundreds, and they bring it into the Tent of Meeting as a memorial for the sons of Israel before YHWH.
Original Language Text
hebrew
וַ/יִּקַּ֨ח מֹשֶׁ֜ה וְ/אֶלְעָזָ֤ר הַ/כֹּהֵן֙ אֶת הַ/זָּהָ֔ב מֵ/אֵ֛ת שָׂרֵ֥י הָ/אֲלָפִ֖ים וְ/הַ/מֵּא֑וֹת וַ/יָּבִ֤אוּ אֹת/וֹ֙ אֶל אֹ֣הֶל מוֹעֵ֔ד זִכָּר֥וֹן לִ/בְנֵֽי יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל לִ/פְנֵ֥י יְהוָֽה
English Translation
And Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold from the commanders of the thousands and of the hundreds, and they brought it into the tent of meeting as a memorial for the children of Israel before the LORD.
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Chapter 31 Context
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And YHWH speaks to Moses, saying,
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“Execute the vengeance of the sons of Israel against the Midianites—afterward you are gathered to yo...
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And Moses speaks to the people, saying, “Arm men from among you for the war, and they are against Mi...
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one thousand for a tribe—you send one thousand for a tribe, of all the tribes of Israel, to the war....
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And there are given out of the thousands of Israel one thousand for a tribe—twelve thousand armed on...
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and Moses sends them, one thousand for a tribe, to the war; he sent them and Phinehas son of Eleazar...
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And they war against Midian, as YHWH has commanded Moses, and slay every male;
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and they have slain the kings of Midian besides their pierced ones: Evi, and Rekem, and Zur, and Hur...
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And the sons of Israel take the women of Midian and their infants captive; and they have plundered a...
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and they have burned all their cities, with their habitations, and all their towers, with fire.
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And they take all the spoil and all the prey, among man and among beast;
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and they bring in the captives, and the prey, and the spoil to Moses, and to Eleazar the priest, and...
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And Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and all the princes of the congregation, go out to meet them, to...
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and Moses is angry against the inspectors of the force, chiefs of the thousands, and chiefs of the h...
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And Moses says to them, “Have you kept every female alive?
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Behold, they have been to the sons of Israel, through the word of Balaam, to cause a trespass agains...
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And now, slay every male among the infants, indeed, slay every woman knowing a man by the lying of a...
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and all the infants among the women who have not known the lying of a male you have kept alive for y...
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And you, encamp at the outside of the camp for seven days; any who has slain a person, and any who h...
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and every garment, and every skin vessel, and every work of goats’ hair, and every wooden vessel, yo...
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And Eleazar the priest says to the men of war who go to battle, “This is the statute of the law whic...
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only the gold, and the silver, the bronze, the iron, the tin, and the lead,
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everything which may go into fire, you cause to pass over through fire, and it has been clean; it is...
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and you have washed your garments on the seventh day and have been clean, and afterward you come int...
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And YHWH speaks to Moses, saying,
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“Take up the sum of the prey of the captives, among man and among beast, you, and Eleazar the priest...
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and you have halved the prey between those handling the battle, who go out to the war, and all the c...
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and you have raised a tribute to YHWH from the men of battle, who go out to the war, one body out of...
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you take from their half and have given it to Eleazar the priest as a raised-offering of YHWH.
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And from the sons of Israel’s half you take one possession out of fifty, of man, of the herd, of the...
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And Moses does—Eleazar the priest also—as YHWH has commanded Moses.
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And the prey, the remainder of the spoil which the people of the host have spoiled, is six hundred t...
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and seventy-two thousand of the herd;
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and sixty-one thousand donkeys;
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and of mankind—of the women who have not known the lying of a male—all the persons are thirty-two th...
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And the half, the portion of those who go out into the war, is in number three hundred thousand and...
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And the tribute to YHWH of the sheep is six hundred seventy-five;
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and the herd is thirty-six thousand, and their tribute to YHWH is seventy-two;
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and the donkeys are thirty thousand and five hundred, and their tribute to YHWH is sixty-one;
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and of mankind are sixteen thousand, and their tribute to YHWH is thirty-two persons.
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And Moses gives the tribute—YHWH’s raised-offering—to Eleazar the priest, as YHWH has commanded Mose...
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And of the sons of Israel’s half, which Moses halved from the men who war—
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and the congregation’s half is three hundred thousand and thirty thousand and seven thousand and fiv...
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and thirty-six thousand of the herd;
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and thirty thousand and five hundred donkeys;
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and sixteen thousand of mankind—
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Moses takes from the sons of Israel’s half one possession from the fifty, of man and of beast, and g...
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And the inspectors whom the thousands of the host have (heads of the thousands and heads of the hund...
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and they say to Moses, “Your servants have taken up the sum of the men of war who are with us, and n...
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and we bring YHWH’s offering near, each of that which he has found of vessels of gold—chain, and bra...
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And Moses receives—Eleazar the priest also—the gold from them, every vessel of workmanship;
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and all the gold of the raised-offering which they have lifted up to YHWH is sixteen thousand seven...
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(the men of the host have each taken spoil for himself);
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and Moses takes—Eleazar the priest also—the gold from the heads of the thousands and of the hundreds...