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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,
The Lord said to Moses,
(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,
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
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Reciprocal: Numbers 10:31 - forasmuch 1 Kings 8:44 - whithersoever
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The Lord said to him, “Go back to the land of your fathers and to your family, and I will be with you.”
Jacob had Rachel and Leah called to the field where his flocks were.
He said to them, “I can see from your father’s face that his attitude toward me is not the same as before, but the God of my father has been with me.
If he said, ‘The spotted sheep will be your wages,’ then all the sheep were born spotted. If he said, ‘The streaked sheep will be your wages,’ then all the sheep were born streaked.
God has taken away your father’s herds and given them to me.
In fact, all the wealth that God has taken away from our father belongs to us and to our children. So do whatever God has said to you.”
So Jacob got up and put his children and wives on the camels.
But God came to Laban the Aramean in a dream at night. “Watch yourself!” God warned him. “Don’t say anything to Jacob, either good or bad.”
When Laban overtook Jacob, Jacob had pitched his tent in the hill country, and Laban and his relatives also pitched their tents in the hill country of Gilead.
Tell my father about all my glory in Egypt and about all you have seen. And bring my father here quickly.”
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
