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Green's Literal Translation

Numbers 31:53

men of the army who had each taken spoil for himself.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Liberality;   Spoils;   Thankfulness;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Desert, Journey of Israel through the;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Midianites;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Jericho;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Paran;   Silver;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Booty;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Eleazar ;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Metals;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - On to Canaan;   Moses, the Man of God;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Sidra;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
([For] the men of war had taken booty, every man for himself.)
King James Version
(For the men of war had taken spoil, every man for himself.)
Lexham English Bible
The men of battle plundered each for himself.
English Standard Version
(The men in the army had each taken plunder for himself.)
New Century Version
each soldier had taken something for himself.
New English Translation
Each soldier had taken plunder for himself.
Amplified Bible
For the men of war had taken plunder, every man for himself.
New American Standard Bible
The men of war had taken plunder, every man for himself.
Geneva Bible (1587)
(For the men of warre had spoyled, euery man for him selfe)
Legacy Standard Bible
The men of war had taken plunder, every man for himself.
Contemporary English Version
This did not include the things that the soldiers had kept for themselves.
Complete Jewish Bible
For the soldiers had taken booty, every man for himself.
Darby Translation
(The men of war had taken spoil each one for himself.)
Easy-to-Read Version
The soldiers kept the rest of their share of the things they took in war.
George Lamsa Translation
(For the men of war had plundered every man for himself.)
Good News Translation
Those who were not officers kept the loot they had taken.
Christian Standard Bible®
Each of the soldiers had taken plunder for himself.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
For loke what euery one had spoyled, that was his awne.
American Standard Version
(For the men of war had taken booty, every man for himself.)
Bible in Basic English
(For every man of the army had taken goods for himself in the war.)
Bishop's Bible (1568)
(For the men of warre had spoyled, euery man for hym selfe.)
JPS Old Testament (1917)
For the men of war had taken booty, every man for himself.--
King James Version (1611)
(For the men of warre had taken spoile, euery man for himselfe.)
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
For the men of war took plunder every one for himself.
English Revised Version
(For the men of war had taken booty, every man for himself.)
Berean Standard Bible
Each of the soldiers had taken plunder for himself.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
For that that ech man rauyschide in the prey, was his owne;
Young's Literal Translation
(the men of the host have spoiled each for himself);
Update Bible Version
([For] the men of war had taken booty, every man for himself.)
Webster's Bible Translation
([For] the men of war had taken spoil, every man for himself.)
World English Bible
([For] the men of war had taken booty, every man for himself.)
New King James Version
(The men of war had taken spoil, every man for himself.)
New Living Translation
All the fighting men had taken some of the plunder for themselves.
New Life Bible
For the men of war had taken things from the battle, every man for himself.
New Revised Standard
(The troops had all taken plunder for themselves.)
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
The men of the host, had taken prey, each man for himself.
Douay-Rheims Bible
For that which every one had taken in the booty was his own.
Revised Standard Version
(The men of war had taken booty, every man for himself.)
New American Standard Bible (1995)
The men of war had taken booty, every man for himself.

Contextual Overview

48 And the officers who were over the thousands of the army, heads of the thousands and heads of the hundreds, drew near to Moses. 49 And they said to Moses, Your servants have lifted the heads of the men of war who were with us, and not a man of us is missing. 50 And we bring near Jehovah's offering, each what he has found, vessels of gold, chains, and bracelets, rings, earrings, and jewels, to atone for ourselves before Jehovah. 51 And Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold from them, all crafted things. 52 And all the gold of the heave offering which they lifted up to Jehovah was sixteen thousand, seven hundred and fifty shekels, from the heads of thousands and from the heads of hundreds, 53 men of the army who had each taken spoil for himself. 54 And Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold from the heads of the thousands and of the hundreds. And they brought it into the tabernacle of the congregation, a memorial for the sons of Israel before Jehovah.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Deuteronomy 20:14

Cross-References

Genesis 11:31
And Terah took his son Abram, and Lot, Haran's son, his grandson and his daughter-in-law Sarai, his son Abram's wife. And he went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldeans to go into the land of Canaan. And they came to Haran and lived there.
Genesis 14:22
And Abram said to the king of Sodom, I have lifted up my hand to Jehovah, the most high God, the possessor of Heaven and earth,
Genesis 16:5
And Sarai said to Abram, My injury be upon you; I gave my slave-girl into your bosom, and she saw that she had conceived, and I was despised in her eyes. Let Jehovah judge between me and you.
Genesis 17:7
And I will establish My covenant between Me and you, and your seed after you in their generations, for an everlasting covenant, to be a God to you and to your seed after you.
Genesis 28:13
And, behold, Jehovah stood above it and said, I am Jehovah the God of your father Abraham, and the God of Isaac; the land on which you are lying, I will give it to you and to your seed.
Genesis 31:3
And Jehovah said to Jacob, Go back to the land of your fathers and to your kindred. And I will be with you.
Genesis 31:4
And Jacob sent and called for Rachel and for Leah to come to the field, to his flocks.
Genesis 31:20
And Jacob deceived the heart of Laban the Syrian, for he did not tell him that he was about to flee.
Genesis 31:23
And he took his brothers with him and pursued him, seven days journey. And he overtook him in Mount Gilead.
Genesis 31:24
And God came to Laban the Syrian in a dream of the night, and said to him, Watch out for yourself, that you not speak with Jacob from good to evil.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For the men of war had taken spoil, every man for himself. And which he kept for himself, and did not deliver in with the prey or booty, which was brought to Moses and Eleazar, the sum of which was taken by them; and this seems to confirm what has been hinted, that, as each soldier had taken spoil for himself, so everyone contributed his quota towards this freewill offering to the Lord.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

This verse seems to imply that the soldiers, as distinct from the officers (compare Numbers 31:49), did not make any offering from their plunder. Of course besides the gold there would be much spoil of less precious materials; see Numbers 31:20, Numbers 31:22.


 
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