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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 spoke 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,
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Reciprocal: Numbers 10:31 - forasmuch 1 Kings 8:44 - whithersoever
Cross-References
Then the Lord said to him, "Go back to the land of your fathers and to your relatives. I will be with you."
So Jacob sent word to Rachel and Leah to meet him in the field where his flocks were.
He said to them, "I have noticed that your father is not as friendly toward me as he used to be; but my father's God has been with me.
Whenever Laban said, ‘The speckled goats shall be your wages,' all the flocks produced speckled young. When he said, ‘The striped goats shall be your wages,' all the flocks produced striped young.
God has taken flocks away from your father and given them to me.
All this wealth which God has taken from our father belongs to us and to our children. Do whatever God has told you."
So Jacob got ready to go back to his father in the land of Canaan. He put his children and his wives on the camels, and drove all his flocks ahead of him, with everything that he had gotten in Mesopotamia.
In a dream that night God came to Laban and said to him, "Be careful not to threaten Jacob in any way."
Jacob had set up his camp on a mountain, and Laban set up his camp with his relatives in the hill country of Gilead.
Tell my father how powerful I am here in Egypt and tell him about everything that you have seen. Then hurry and bring him 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
