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Numbers 31:1
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The LORD spoke to Moshe, saying,
And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
The Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
The Lord spoke to Moses and said,
The Lord spoke to Moses:
The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
And the Lorde spake vnto Moses, saying,
Then Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
(LY: ii) Adonai said to Moshe,
And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,
The Lord spoke to Moses and said,
AND the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
The Lord said to Moses,
The Lord spoke to Moses,
And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,
And the LORDE spake vnto Moses, & sayde:
And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,
Then the Lord said to Moses,
And the Lorde spake vnto Moyses, saying:
And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying:
And the Lord spake vnto Moses, saying,
And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
And the LORD said to Moses,
And the Lord spak to Moyses, and seide,
And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying,
And Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying:
Then the Lord said to Moses,
The Lord said to Moses,
The Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
Then spake Yahweh unto Moses, saying:
And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
The LORD said to Moses,
God spoke to Moses: "Avenge the People of Israel on the Midianites. Afterward you will go to be with your dead ancestors."
Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Reciprocal: Numbers 10:31 - forasmuch 1 Kings 8:44 - whithersoever
Cross-References
One day the Lord said, "Jacob, go back to your relatives in the land of your ancestors, and I will bless you."
Jacob sent for Rachel and Leah to meet him in the field where he kept his sheep,
and he told them: Your father isn't as friendly with me as he used to be, but the God my ancestors worshiped has been on my side.
When your father said the speckled sheep would be my wages, all of them were speckled. And when he said the spotted ones would be mine, all of them were spotted.
That's how God has taken sheep and goats from your father and given them to me.
Now do whatever God tells you to do. Even the property God took from our father and gave to you really belongs to us and our children.
Then Jacob, his wives, and his children got on camels and left
But God appeared to Laban in a dream that night and warned, "Don't say a word to Jacob. Don't make a threat or a promise."
Jacob had set up camp in the hill country of Gilead, when Laban and his relatives came and set up camp in another part of the hill country. Laban went to Jacob
Tell my father about my great power here in Egypt and about everything you have seen. Hurry and bring him here.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
And the Lord spake unto Moses,.... After the plague upon Israel for their fornication and idolatry, into which they were drawn by the daughters of Moab and Midian, and after the sum of the people was taken in the plains of Moab, and various laws given or repeated, and a little before the death of Moses:
saying; as follows.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
CHAPTER XXXI
The command of the Lord to make war on the Midianites, 1, 2.
One thousand men are chosen out of each of the twelve tribes,
and sent with Phinehas against the Midianites, 3-6.
They slay all the males, 7;
their five kings and Balaam, 8.
They take all the women captives, with the flocks and goods, 9;
burn their cities, and bring away the spoil, 10,11.
They bring the captives, c., to Moses, who is wroth with the
officers for sparing the women, who had formerly been the cause
of their transgression and punishment, 12-16.
He commands all the male children and all the grown up females
to be slain, 17, 18.
How the soldiers were to purify themselves, 19, 20
and the different articles taken in war, 21-24.
They are commanded to take the sum of the prey, to divide it
into two parts; one for the 12,000 warriors, and the other for
the rest of the congregation, 25-27.
One of 500, both of persons and cattle, of the share of the
warriors, to be given to the Lord, 28, 29;
and one part of fifty, of the people's share, to be given to the
Levites, 30.
The sum of the prey remaining after the above division; sheep
675,000, beeves 72,000, asses 61,000, young women 32,000,
ver. 31-35.
How the soldiers' part was divided, 36-40.
How the part belonging to the congregation was divided, 41-47.
The officers report that they had not lost a man in this war,
48, 49.
They bring a voluntary oblation to God, of gold and ornaments,
50, 51;
the amount of which was 16,750 shekels, 52, 53.
Moses and Eleazar bring the gold into the tabernacle for a
memorial, 54.
NOTES ON CHAP. XXXI
