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the Week of Proper 11 / Ordinary 16
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Christian Standard Bible ®

Numbers 31:11

and took away all the spoils of war and the captives, both people and animals.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

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

Dictionaries:

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

Encyclopedias:

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

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
They took all the spoil, and all the prey, both of man and of animal.
King James Version
And they took all the spoil, and all the prey, both of men and of beasts.
Lexham English Bible
They took all the plunder and all the war-booty with the humans and domestic animals.
English Standard Version
and took all the spoil and all the plunder, both of man and of beast.
New Century Version
but they took all the people and animals and goods.
New English Translation
They took all the plunder and all the spoils, both people and animals.
Amplified Bible
They took all the plunder and all the spoils of war, both people and livestock.
New American Standard Bible
And they took all the plunder and all the spoils, both of people and of livestock.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And they tooke all the spoyle and all the pray both of men and beastes.
Legacy Standard Bible
And they took all the spoil and all the loot, both of man and of beast.
Contemporary English Version
Israel's soldiers gathered together everything they had taken from the Midianites, including the captives and the animals.
Complete Jewish Bible
They took all the booty, all the people and animals they had captured,
Darby Translation
And they took all the booty, and all the prey, of man and of cattle;
Easy-to-Read Version
They took all the people and animals
George Lamsa Translation
And they carried away all the spoil and all the booty, both of men and of beasts.
Good News Translation
They took all the loot that they had captured, including the prisoners and the animals,
Literal Translation
And they took all the spoil, and all the prey, among man and among animal.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And they toke all ye spoyles, & all yt they coulde catche men & catell,
American Standard Version
And they took all the spoil, and all the prey, both of man and of beast.
Bible in Basic English
They went away with the goods they had taken, man and beast.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And they toke all the spoyle, and all the bootie, both of men and beastes.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And they took all the spoil, and all the prey, both of man and of beast.
King James Version (1611)
And they tooke all the spoile, and all the pray, both of men and of beasts.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And they took all their plunder, and all their spoils, both man and beast.
English Revised Version
And they took all the spoil, and all the prey, both of man and of beast.
Berean Standard Bible
and carried away all the plunder and spoils, both people and animals.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And they token pray, and alle thingis whiche thei hadden take, as wel of men as of beestis, and thei brouyten to Moyses,
Young's Literal Translation
And they take all the spoil, and all the prey, among man and among beast;
Update Bible Version
And they took all the spoil, and all the prey, both of man and of beast.
Webster's Bible Translation
And they took all the spoil, and all the prey, [both] of men and of beasts.
World English Bible
They took all the spoil, and all the prey, both of man and of animal.
New King James Version
And they took all the spoil and all the booty--of man and beast.
New Living Translation
After they had gathered the plunder and captives, both people and animals,
New Life Bible
They took all that was left of both man and animal.
New Revised Standard
but they took all the spoil and all the booty, both people and animals.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Then took they all the spoil, and all the booty, - both of man and beast;
Douay-Rheims Bible
And they carried away the booty, and all that they had taken both of men and of beasts.
Revised Standard Version
and took all the spoil and all the booty, both of man and of beast.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
They took all the spoil and all the prey, both of man and of beast.

Contextual Overview

7They waged war against Midian, as the Lord had commanded Moses, and killed every male. 8Along with the others slain by them, they killed the Midianite kings—Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba, the five kings of Midian. They also killed Balaam son of Beor with the sword. 9The Israelites took the Midianite women and their dependents captive, and they plundered all their cattle, flocks, and property. 10Then they burned all the cities where the Midianites lived, as well as all their encampments, 11and took away all the spoils of war and the captives, both people and animals. 12They brought the prisoners, animals, and spoils of war to Moses, the priest Eleazar, and the Israelite community at the camp on the plains of Moab by the Jordan across from Jericho.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Deuteronomy 20:14, Joshua 8:2

Cross-References

Genesis 18:1
The Lord appeared to Abraham at the oaks of Mamre while he was sitting at the entrance of his tent during the heat of the day.
Genesis 18:17
Then the Lord said, “Should I hide what I am about to do from Abraham?
Genesis 22:1
After these things God tested Abraham and said to him, “Abraham!”
Genesis 31:5
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.
Genesis 31:7
and that he has cheated me and changed my wages ten times. But God has not let him harm me.
Genesis 31:13
I am the God of Bethel, where you poured oil on the stone marker and made a solemn vow to me. Get up, leave this land, and return to your native land.’”
Genesis 31:15
Are we not regarded by him as outsiders? For he has sold us and has certainly spent our purchase price.
Genesis 31:16
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.”
Exodus 3:4
When the Lord saw that he had gone over to look, God called out to him from the bush, “Moses, Moses!”
1 Samuel 3:4
Then the Lord called Samuel, and he answered, “Here I am.”

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And they took all the spoil,.... In their cities and castles; and all the prey, both of men and of beasts; all sorts of cattle, oxen, sheep, and asses.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The “prey” refers to the captives and live-stock: the “spoil” to the ornaments and other effects.


 
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