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English Standard Version

Numbers 31:13

Moses and Eleazar the priest and all the chiefs of the congregation went to meet them outside the camp.

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.
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.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And Moses and Eleazar the priest and all the rulers of the synagogue went forth out of the camp to meet them.
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 Moses and Eleazar the priest and all the chiefs of the congregation went to meet them outside the camp. 14 And Moses was angry with the officers of the army, the commanders of thousands and the commanders of hundreds, who had come from service in the war. 15 Moses said to them, "Have you let all the women live? 16 Behold, these, on Balaam's advice, caused the people of Israel to act treacherously against the Lord in the incident of Peor, and so the plague came among the congregation of the Lord . 17 Now therefore, kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who has known man by lying with him. 18 But all the young girls who have not known man by lying with him keep alive for yourselves. 19 Encamp outside the camp seven days. Whoever of you has killed any person and whoever has touched any slain, purify yourselves and your captives on the third day and on the seventh day. 20 You shall purify every garment, every article of skin, all work of goats' hair, and every article of wood." 21 Then Eleazar the priest said to the men in the army who had gone to battle: "This is the statute of the law that the Lord has commanded Moses: 22 only the gold, the silver, the bronze, the iron, the tin, and the lead,

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
Then the Lord said to Jacob, "Return to the land of your fathers and to your kindred, and I will be with you."
Genesis 31:12
And he said, ‘Lift up your eyes and see, all the goats that mate with the flock are striped, spotted, and mottled, for I have seen all that Laban is doing to you.
Genesis 31:22
When it was told Laban on the third day that Jacob had fled,
Genesis 32:9
And Jacob said, "O God of my father Abraham and God of my father Isaac, O Lord who said to me, ‘Return to your country and to your kindred, that I may do you good,'
Genesis 35:7
and there he built an altar and called the place El-bethel, because there God had revealed himself to him when he fled from his brother.

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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