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Tuesday, July 22nd, 2025
the Week of Proper 11 / Ordinary 16
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Geneva Bible

Numbers 31:11

And they tooke all the spoyle and all the pray both of men and beastes.

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 - Hafṭarah;   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.
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,
Christian Standard Bible®
and took away all the spoils of war and the captives, both people and 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

7 And they warred against Midian, as the Lorde had commaunded Moses, and slue all the males. 8 They slue also the Kings of Midian among them that were slaine: Eui and Rekem, and Zur, and Hur and Reba fiue kings of Midian, and they slue Balaam the sonne of Beor with the sworde: 9 But the children of Israel tooke the women of Midian prisoners, and their children, and spoyled all their cattell, and all their flockes, and all their goods. 10 And they burnt all their cities, wherein they dwelt, and all their villages with fire. 11 And they tooke all the spoyle and all the pray both of men and beastes. 12 And they brought the captiues and that which they had taken, and the spoyle vnto Moses and to Eleazar the Priest, and vnto the Congregation of the children of Israel, into ye campe in the playne of Moab, which was by Iorden toward Iericho.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Deuteronomy 20:14, Joshua 8:2

Cross-References

Genesis 18:1
Againe the Lord appeared vnto him in the plaine of Mamre, as he sate in his tent doore about the heate of the day.
Genesis 18:17
And the Lord said, Shall I hide from Abraham that thing which I doe,
Genesis 22:1
And after these things God did proue Abraham, and said vnto him, Abraham. Who answered, Here am I.
Genesis 31:5
Then sayde hee vnto them, I see your fathers countenance, that it is not towardes me as it was wont, and the God of my father hath bene with me.
Genesis 31:7
But your father hath deceiued me, & changed my wages tenne times: but God suffred him not to hurt me.
Genesis 31:13
I am the God of Beth-el, where thou anoyntedst the pillar, where thou vowedst a vowe vnto me. Nowe arise, get thee out of this countrey and returne vnto ye land where thou wast borne.
Genesis 31:15
Doeth not he count vs as strangers? for he hath solde vs, and hath eaten vp and consumed our money.
Genesis 31:16
Therefore all the riches, which God hath taken from our father, is ours and our childrens: nowe then whatsoeuer God hath saide vnto thee, doe it.
Exodus 3:4
And when the Lord sawe that he turned aside to see, God called vnto him out of the middes of the bush, and said, Moses, Moses. And he answered, I am here.
1 Samuel 3:4
Then the Lorde called Samuel: and hee said, 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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