Numbers 31:1

Complete Jewish Bible

(LY: ii) Adonai said to Moshe,

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
The LORD spoke to Moshe, saying,

King James Version
And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,

Lexham English Bible
Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

English Standard Version
The Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

New Century Version
The Lord spoke to Moses and said,

New English Translation
The Lord spoke to Moses:

Amplified Bible
The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

New American Standard Bible
Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

Geneva Bible (1587)
And the Lorde spake vnto Moses, saying,

Legacy Standard Bible
Then Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

Contemporary English Version
The Lord said to Moses,

Darby Translation
And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,

Easy-to-Read Version
The Lord spoke to Moses and said,

George Lamsa Translation
AND the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

Good News Translation
The Lord said to Moses,

Christian Standard Bible®
The Lord spoke to Moses,

Literal Translation
And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And the LORDE spake vnto Moses, & sayde:

American Standard Version
And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,

Bible in Basic English
Then the Lord said to Moses,

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And the Lorde spake vnto Moyses, saying:

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying:

King James Version (1611)
And the Lord spake vnto Moses, saying,

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

English Revised Version
And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,

Berean Standard Bible
And the LORD said to Moses,

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And the Lord spak to Moyses, and seide,

Young's Literal Translation
And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying,

Update Bible Version
And Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

Webster's Bible Translation
And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

World English Bible
Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

New King James Version
And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying:

New Living Translation
Then the Lord said to Moses,

New Life Bible
The Lord said to Moses,

New Revised Standard
The Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Then spake Yahweh unto Moses, saying:

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

Revised Standard Version
The LORD said to Moses,

THE MESSAGE
God spoke to Moses: "Avenge the People of Israel on the Midianites. Afterward you will go to be with your dead ancestors."

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

Contextual Overview

¹ (LY: ii) Adonai said to Moshe, ² "On behalf of the people of Isra'el, take vengeance on the Midyanim. After that, you will be gathered to your people." ³ Moshe said to the people, "Equip men from among yourselves for war. They are to go and fight Midyan, in order to carry out Adonai 's vengeance on Midyan. ⁴ You are to send to the war a thousand men from every one of Isra'el's tribes." ⁵ So out of the thousands of people in Isra'el, a thousand armed men from each tribe, 12,000 altogether, were mustered for war. ⁶ Moshe sent them, a thousand from each tribe, to the war; he sent them and Pinchas the son of El‘azar the cohen to the war, with the holy utensils and the trumpets for sounding the alarm in his care.

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Reciprocal: Numbers 10:31 - forasmuch 1 Kings 8:44 - whithersoever

Cross-References

Genesis 31:3
Adonai said to Ya‘akov, "Return to the land of your ancestors, to your kinsmen; I will be with you."

Genesis 31:4
So Ya‘akov sent for Rachel and Le'ah and had them come to the field where his flock was.

Genesis 31:5
He said to them, "I see by the way your father looks that he feels differently toward me than before; but the God of my father has been with me.

Genesis 31:8
If he said, ‘The speckled will be your wages,' then all the animals gave birth to speckled young; and if he said, ‘The streaked will be your wages,' then all the animals gave birth to streaked young.

Genesis 31:9
This is how God has taken away your father's animals and given them to me.

Genesis 31:16
Nevertheless, the wealth which God has taken away from our father has become ours and our children's anyway; so whatever God has told you to do, do."

Genesis 31:17
(vi) Then Ya‘akov got up, put his sons and wives on the camels,

Genesis 31:24
But God came to Lavan the Arami in a dream that night and said to him, "Be careful that you don't say anything to Ya‘akov, either good or bad."

Genesis 31:25
When Lavan caught up with Ya‘akov, Ya‘akov had set up camp in the hill-country; so Lavan and his kinsmen set up camp in the hill-country of Gil‘ad.

Genesis 45:13
Tell my father how honored I am in Egypt and everything you have seen, and quickly bring my father down 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