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the Week of Proper 13 / Ordinary 18
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Brenton's Septuagint

Numbers 31:13

And Moses and Eleazar the priest and all the rulers of the synagogue went forth out of the camp to meet them.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Captive;   Government;   Sanitation;   War;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Desert, Journey of Israel through the;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Midianites;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Gideon;   Midian;   Moab;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Midian, Mtdianites;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Eleazar ;   Midian, Midianites ;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - On to Canaan;   Moses, the Man of God;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Slave;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Hafá¹­arah;   Midian and Midianites;   Sidra;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
Moshe, and El`azar the Kohen, and all the princes of the congregation, went forth to meet them outside of the camp.
King James Version
And Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and all the princes of the congregation, went forth to meet them without the camp.
Lexham English Bible
And Moses and Eleazar the priest and all the leaders of the community went out to meet them outside the camp.
English Standard Version
Moses and Eleazar the priest and all the chiefs of the congregation went to meet them outside the camp.
New Century Version
Moses, Eleazar the priest, and all the leaders of the people went outside the camp to meet them.
New English Translation
Moses, Eleazar the priest, and all the leaders of the community went out to meet them outside the camp.
Amplified Bible
Moses and Eleazar the priest and all the leaders of the congregation went out to meet them outside the camp.
New American Standard Bible
And Moses, Eleazar the priest, and all the leaders of the congregation went out to meet them outside the camp.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Then Moses and Eleazar the Priest, and all the princes of the Congregation went out of the campe to meete them.
Legacy Standard Bible
And Moses and Eleazar the priest and all the leaders of the congregation went out to meet them outside the camp.
Complete Jewish Bible
(RY: ii, LY: iii) Moshe, El‘azar the cohen and all the community leaders went to meet them outside the camp.
Darby Translation
And Moses and Eleazar the priest and all the princes of the assembly went forth to meet them outside the camp.
Easy-to-Read Version
Then Moses, Eleazar the priest, and the leaders of the people went out of the camp to meet with the soldiers.
George Lamsa Translation
And Moses and Eleazar the priest and all the princes of the congregation went forth to meet them outside the camp.
Good News Translation
Moses, Eleazar, and all the other leaders of the community went out of the camp to meet the army.
Christian Standard Bible®
Moses, the priest Eleazar, and all the leaders of the community went to meet them outside the camp.
Literal Translation
And Moses and Eleazar the priest, and all the rulers of the congregation went out to meet them outside the camp.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And Moses and Eleasar the prest and all the captaines of ye congregacion, wete out of the hoost to mete the.
American Standard Version
And Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and all the princes of the congregation, went forth to meet them without the camp.
Bible in Basic English
Then Moses and Eleazar the priest and the chiefs of the people went out to them before they had come into the tent-circle.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And Moyses and Eleazar the priest, and all the lordes of the congregation, went out of the hoast to meete them.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and all the princes of the congregation, went forth to meet them without the camp.
King James Version (1611)
And Moses and Eleazar the Priest, and all the Princes of the Congregation went foorth to meete them without the campe.
English Revised Version
And Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and all the princes of the congregation, went forth to meet them without the camp.
Berean Standard Bible
And Moses, Eleazar the priest, and all the leaders of the congregation went to meet them outside the camp.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Moises and Eleazar, preest, and alle the princes of the synagoge, yeden out in to the comyng of hem, with out the castels, `that is, of the tabernacle.
Young's Literal Translation
And Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and all the princes of the company, go out to meet them, unto the outside of the camp,
Update Bible Version
And Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and all the princes of the congregation, went forth to meet them outside the camp.
Webster's Bible Translation
And Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and all the princes of the congregation, went forth to meet them without the camp.
World English Bible
Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and all the princes of the congregation, went forth to meet them outside of the camp.
New King James Version
And Moses, Eleazar the priest, and all the leaders of the congregation, went to meet them outside the camp.
New Living Translation
Moses, Eleazar the priest, and all the leaders of the community went to meet them outside the camp.
New Life Bible
Moses and Eleazar the religious leader and all the leaders of the people went out from the tents to meet them.
New Revised Standard
Moses, Eleazar the priest, and all the leaders of the congregation went to meet them outside the camp.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And Moses, and Eleazar the priest and all the princes of the assembly, went forth to meet them, - unto the outside of the camp.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And Moses and Eleazar the priest and all the princes of the synagogue went forth to meet them without the camp.
Revised Standard Version
Moses, and Elea'zar the priest, and all the leaders of the congregation, went forth to meet them outside the camp.
THE MESSAGE
Moses, Eleazar, and all the leaders of the congregation went to meet the returning army outside the camp. Moses was furious with the army officers—the commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds—as they came back from the battlefield: "What's this! You've let these women live! They're the ones who, under Balaam's direction, seduced the People of Israel away from God in that mess at Peor, causing the plague that hit God 's people. Finish your job: kill all the boys. Kill every woman who has slept with a man. The younger women who are virgins you can keep alive for yourselves.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Moses and Eleazar the priest and all the leaders of the congregation went out to meet them outside the camp.

Contextual Overview

13 And Moses and Eleazar the priest and all the rulers of the synagogue went forth out of the camp to meet them. 14 And Moses was angry with the captains of the host, the heads of thousands and the heads of hundreds who came from the battle-array. 15 And Moses said to them, Why have ye saved every female alive? 16 For they were the occasion to the children of Israel by the word of Balaam of their revolting and despising the word of the Lord, because of Phogor; and there was a plague in the congregation of the Lord. 17 Now then slay every male in all the spoil, slay every woman, who has known the lying with man. 18 And as for all the captivity of women, who have not known the lying with man, save ye them alive. 19 And ye shall encamp outside the great camp seven days; every one who has slain and who touches a dead body, shall be purified on the third day, and ye and your captivity shall purify yourselves on the seventh day. 20 And ye shall purify every garment and every leathern utensil, and all furniture of goat skin, and every wooden vessel. 21 And Eleazar the priest said to the men of the host that came from the battle-array, This is the ordinance of the law which the Lord has commanded Moses. 22 Beside the gold, and the silver, and the brass, and the iron, and lead, and tin,

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

went forth: Genesis 14:17, 1 Samuel 15:12, 1 Samuel 30:21

without the camp: Numbers 31:12, Numbers 31:22-24, Numbers 5:2, Numbers 19:11

Cross-References

Genesis 31:3
And the Lord said to Jacob, Return to the land of thy father, and to thy family, and I will be with thee.
Genesis 31:12
And he said, Look up with thine eyes, and behold the he-goats and the rams leaping on the sheep and the she-goats, speckled and variegated and spotted with ash-coloured spots; for I have seen all things that Laban does to thee.
Genesis 31:22
But it was told Laban the Syrian on the third day, that Jacob was fled.
Genesis 32:9
And Jacob said, God of my father Abraam, and God of my father Isaac, O Lord, thou art he that said to me, Depart quickly to the land of thy birth, and I will do thee good.
Genesis 35:7
And he built there an altar, and called the name of the place Baethel; for there God appeared to him, when he fled from the face of his brother Esau.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Moses and Eleazar the priest, and all the princes of the congregation,.... Attended, no doubt, with a proper retinue:

went forth to meet them without the camp; partly to do honour to them, and to congratulate them on their victory, and partly to hinder them going into the camp directly, until they were purified; see

Genesis 14:17.


 
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