Numbers 31 (NET)

Numbers 31:1¹The Lord spoke to Moses:Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AI

Numbers 31:2²“Exact vengeance for the Israelites from the Midianites —after that you will be gathered to your people.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Num 27:13Judg 2:10Num 25:14-18Rev 6:101 Thess 4:6Acts 13:36Deut 32:35Exod 2:16Gen 15:15Gen 25:1-4

Numbers 31:3³So Moses spoke to the people: “Arm men from among you for the war, to attack the Midianites and to execute the Lord ’s vengeance on Midian.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Lev 26:252 Kgs 10:302 Kgs 9:7Exod 17:16Exod 17:9-13Jer 46:10Judg 5:2Judg 5:23Num 25:11Num 25:13

Numbers 31:4⁴You must send to the battle 1,000 men from every tribe throughout all the tribes of Israel.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Sam 14:6Judg 7:2Lev 26:8

Numbers 31:5⁵So 1,000 from every tribe, 12,000 armed for battle in all, were provided out of the thousands of Israel.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AI

Numbers 31:6⁶So Moses sent them to the war, 1,000 from every tribe, with Phinehas son of Eleazar the priest, who was in charge of the holy articles and the signal trumpets.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Num 14:44Num 10:8-91 Sam 14:181 Sam 23:91 Sam 4:171 Sam 4:4-52 Chr 13:12-152 Sam 11:11Exod 25:9Josh 6:13-15

Numbers 31:7⁷They fought against the Midianites, as the Lord commanded Moses, and they killed every male.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Kgs 11:15-16Judg 21:111 Sam 27:9Deut 20:13-14Judg 6:1-2Judg 6:33

Numbers 31:8⁸They killed the kings of Midian in addition to those slain—Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba—five Midianite kings. They also killed Balaam son of Beor with the sword.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Josh 13:21-22Num 25:15Jude 1:11Rev 2:141 Tim 6:9-102 Pet 2:15Num 22:10Num 22:4Num 24:25Num 25:18

Numbers 31:9⁹The Israelites took the women of Midian captive along with their little ones, and took all their herds, all their flocks, and all their goods as plunder.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Chr 28:52 Chr 28:8-10Deut 20:14Num 31:15-16

Numbers 31:10¹⁰They burned all their towns where they lived and all their encampments.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Kgs 9:161 Sam 30:1Gen 25:16Isa 1:7Josh 6:24Rev 18:8

Numbers 31:11¹¹They took all the plunder and all the spoils, both people and animals.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 20:14Josh 8:2

Numbers 31:12¹²They brought the captives and the spoils and the plunder to Moses, to Eleazar the priest, and to the Israelite community, to the camp on the rift valley plains of Moab, along the Jordan River across from Jericho.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Num 22:1

Numbers 31:13¹³Moses, Eleazar the priest, and all the leaders of the community went out to meet them outside the camp.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Sam 15:121 Sam 30:21Gen 14:17Num 19:11Num 31:12Num 31:22-24Num 5:2

Numbers 31:14¹⁴But Moses was furious with the officers of the army, the commanders over thousands and commanders over hundreds, who had come from service in the war.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Kgs 20:421 Sam 15:13-142 Kgs 13:19Eph 4:26Exod 32:19Exod 32:22Lev 10:16Num 12:3Num 31:48

Numbers 31:15¹⁵Moses said to them, “Have you allowed all the women to live?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Sam 15:3Deut 2:34Jer 48:10Deut 20:13Deut 20:16-18Ezek 9:6Josh 10:40Josh 11:14Josh 6:21Josh 8:25

Numbers 31:16¹⁶Look, these people through the counsel of Balaam caused the Israelites to act treacherously against the Lord in the matter of Peor—which resulted in the plague among the community of the Lord!Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Num 25:1-92 Pet 2:15Rev 2:14Deut 4:3Josh 22:17Num 24:14Num 25:18Prov 23:27Eccl 7:26

Numbers 31:17¹⁷Now therefore kill every boy, and kill every woman who has been intimate with a man in bed.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 20:16-18Deut 7:2Judg 21:11-12

Numbers 31:18¹⁸But all the young women who have not experienced a man’s bed will be yours.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 21:10-142 Chr 28:8-10Deut 20:14Lev 25:44Isa 14:2

Numbers 31:19¹⁹“Any of you who has killed anyone or touched any of the dead, remain outside the camp for seven days; purify yourselves and your captives on the third day, and on the seventh day.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Num 19:11-22Num 5:21 Chr 22:8

Numbers 31:20²⁰You must purify each garment and everything that is made of skin, everything made of goats’ hair, and everything made of wood.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 19:10Gen 35:2Num 19:14-16Num 19:22

Numbers 31:21²¹Then Eleazar the priest said to the men of war who had gone into the battle, “This is the ordinance of the law that the Lord commanded Moses:Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Num 30:16

Numbers 31:22²²‘Only the gold, the silver, the bronze, the iron, the tin, and the lead,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AI

Numbers 31:23²³everything that may stand the fire, you are to pass through the fire, and it will be ceremonially clean, but it must still be purified with the water of purification. Anything that cannot withstand the fire you must pass through the water.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Num 19:91 Cor 3:13Num 19:17Isa 43:2Matt 3:111 Pet 1:71 Pet 3:211 Pet 4:12Eph 5:26Lev 11:32

Numbers 31:24²⁴You must wash your clothes on the seventh day, and you will be ceremonially clean, and afterward you may enter the camp.’”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Lev 11:25Lev 14:9Lev 15:13Num 19:19

Numbers 31:25²⁵Then the Lord spoke to Moses:Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AI

Numbers 31:26²⁶“You and Eleazar the priest, and all the family leaders of the community, take the sum of the plunder that was captured, both people and animals.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AI

Numbers 31:27²⁷Divide the plunder into two parts, one for those who took part in the war—who went out to battle—and the other for all the community.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Josh 22:81 Sam 30:24-25Ps 68:121 Sam 30:4

Numbers 31:28²⁸“You must exact a tribute for the Lord from the fighting men who went out to battle: one life out of 500, from the people, the cattle, and from the donkeys and the sheep.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Num 18:26Num 31:30Num 31:471 Chr 18:111 Chr 26:26-272 Sam 8:11-12Gen 14:20Isa 18:7Isa 23:18Isa 60:9

Numbers 31:29²⁹You are to take it from their half share and give it to Eleazar the priest for a raised offering to the Lord.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 12:12Deut 12:19Exod 29:27Num 18:26

Numbers 31:30³⁰From the Israelites’ half share you are to take one portion out of fifty of the people, the cattle, the donkeys, and the sheep—from every kind of animal—and you are to give them to the Levites, who are responsible for the care of the Lord ’s tabernacle.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Num 3:25Num 3:31Num 3:7-81 Chr 23:321 Chr 26:20-271 Chr 9:27-291 Cor 4:21 Cor 9:13-14Acts 20:28Col 4:17

Numbers 31:31³¹So Moses and Eleazar the priest did as the Lord commanded Moses.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AI

Numbers 31:32³²The spoil that remained of the plunder that the fighting men had gathered was 675,000 sheep,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AI

Numbers 31:33³³72,000 cattle,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AI

Numbers 31:34³⁴61,000 donkeys,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AI

Numbers 31:35³⁵and 32,000 young women who had not experienced a man’s bed.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AI

Numbers 31:36³⁶The half portion of those who went to war numbered 337,500 sheep;Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AI

Numbers 31:37³⁷the Lord ’s tribute from the sheep was 675.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AI

Numbers 31:38³⁸The cattle numbered 36,000; the Lord ’s tribute was 72.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AI

Numbers 31:39³⁹The donkeys were 30,500, of which the Lord ’s tribute was 61.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AI

Numbers 31:40⁴⁰The people were 16,000, of which the Lord ’s tribute was 32 people.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AI

Numbers 31:41⁴¹So Moses gave the tribute, which was the Lord ’s raised offering, to Eleazar the priest, as the Lord commanded Moses.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Num 18:19Num 18:81 Cor 9:10-141 Tim 5:17Gal 6:6Heb 7:4-6Heb 7:9-12Matt 10:10Num 31:29-31Num 5:9

Numbers 31:42⁴²From the Israelites’ half share that Moses had separated from the fighting men,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AI

Numbers 31:43⁴³there were 337,500 sheep from the portion belonging to the community,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AI

Numbers 31:44⁴⁴36,000 cattle,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AI

Numbers 31:45⁴⁵30,500 donkeys,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AI

Numbers 31:46⁴⁶and 16,000 people.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AI

Numbers 31:47⁴⁷From the Israelites’ share Moses took one of every fifty people and animals and gave them to the Levites who were responsible for the care of the Lord ’s tabernacle, just as the Lord commanded Moses.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Num 31:301 Thess 5:12-13Deut 12:17-19Isa 56:10-11Luke 10:1-8Num 18:21-24Ps 134:1

Numbers 31:48⁴⁸Then the officers who were over the thousands of the army, the commanders over thousands and the commanders over hundreds, approached MosesCopy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AI

Numbers 31:49⁴⁹and said to him, “Your servants have taken a count of the men who were in the battle, who were under our authority, and not one is missing.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Sam 30:18-19John 18:9Ps 72:14

Numbers 31:50⁵⁰So we have brought as an offering for the Lord what each man found: gold ornaments, armlets, bracelets, signet rings, earrings, and necklaces, to make atonement for ourselves before the Lord.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 30:12Exod 30:15-16Lev 17:11Ps 107:15Ps 107:21-22Ps 116:12Ps 116:17

Numbers 31:51⁵¹Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold from them, all of it in the form of ornaments.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Num 7:2-6

Numbers 31:52⁵²All the gold of the offering they offered up to the Lord from the commanders of thousands and the commanders of hundreds weighed 16,750 shekels.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AI

Numbers 31:53⁵³Each soldier had taken plunder for himself.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 20:14Num 31:32

Numbers 31:54⁵⁴So Moses and Eleazar the priest received the gold from the commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds and brought it into the tent of meeting as a memorial for the Israelites before the Lord.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 30:16Zech 6:14Acts 10:4Josh 4:7Luke 22:19Num 16:40Ps 103:1-2Ps 115:1Ps 145:7Ps 18:49