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Numbers 31:15-40
15and Moses said to them, Have ye saved all the women alive?
16Lo, these, through the counsel of Balaam, caused the children of Israel to commit sin against Jehovah in the matter of Peor, and there was a plague on the assembly of Jehovah.
17And now slay every male among the little ones, and slay every woman that hath known man by lying with him,
18but all the children among the women that have not known lying with a man, keep alive for yourselves.
19And encamp outside the camp seven days; whoever hath killed a person, and whoever hath touched any slain; ye shall purify yourselves on the third day, and on the seventh day, you and your captives.
20And every garment, and every vessel of skin, and all work of goat's hair, and every utensil of wood shall ye purify.
21And Eleazar the priest said to the men of war that had gone to the battle, This is the statute of the law which Jehovah hath commanded Moses.
22Only the gold, and the silver, the copper, the iron, the tin, and the lead,
23everything that passeth through the fire, ye shall make it go through the fire, and it shall be clean; only it shall be purified with the water of separation; and everything that cannot pass through the fire ye shall make go through the water.
24And ye shall wash your garments on the seventh day, and ye shall be clean; and afterwards ye may come into the camp.
25And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,
26Take the sum of the prey that was taken, of man and of cattle, thou, and Eleazar the priest, and the chief fathers of the assembly;
27and divide the prey into halves, between them that conducted the war, who went out to the battle, and the whole assembly.
28And thou shalt levy a tribute for Jehovah of the men of war who went out to the army, one soul of five hundred of the persons, and of the oxen, and of the asses, and of the small cattle.
29Of their half shall ye take it, and give it unto Eleazar the priest, for a heave-offering of Jehovah.
30And of the children of Israel's half, thou shalt take one portion of fifty, of the persons, of the oxen, of the asses, and of the small cattle, of every [kind of] beasts, and thou shalt give them unto the Levites, who keep the charge of the tabernacle of Jehovah.
31And Moses and Eleazar the priest did as Jehovah had commanded Moses.
32And the prey, the rest of the spoil, which the men of war had taken, was six hundred and seventy-five thousand sheep,
33and seventy-two thousand oxen,
34and sixty-one thousand asses,
35and of human persons, of the women that had not known lying with a man, all the persons were thirty-two thousand.
36And the half, the portion of them that had gone out to the war, was in number three hundred and thirty-seven thousand five hundred sheep,
37and the tribute for Jehovah of the sheep was six hundred and seventy-five;
38and the oxen were thirty-six thousand, and the tribute thereof for Jehovah, seventy-two;
39and the asses were thirty thousand five hundred, and the tribute thereof for Jehovah, sixty-one;
40and the human persons were sixteen thousand, of whom the tribute for Jehovah was thirty-two persons.
Commentaries on Numbers 31
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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